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Continue reading →: The authentic Italian experience
La Bottega is a restaurant café on the Lisburn Road in Belfast. Their focaccia with a variety of fillings is delicious, the coffee is excellent and the Italian music well chosen. Jeevan really cares about their coffee and is keen to create the perfect cup of espresso, cappuccino, latte or…
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Continue reading →: Inspiration
A useful tip I learnt from Carol Ann Duffy’s online course (BBC Maestro) was to keep a store of words or phrases that have caught your attention. In my case it was the word drudgery. I managed to write a poem based on that theme which you will find on…
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Continue reading →: Think once…
Memory lapses, hair loss, excess hair in cranial orifices, a fondness for beige. I’m not sure how many of those boxes I am ticking, but a recent example of memory loss was the purchase of the book Truth by Simon Blackburn. I remember ordering it online from Waterstones and that…
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Continue reading →: Scepticism
I am reading a book titled Truth by a philosopher called Simon Blackburn. It is a good book to ease myself back into academic study. So far I have managed to read the Preface and Introduction and two further pages before I lost concentration. His opinion of scepticism is understandable if…
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Continue reading →: Self Satisfaction
A better night’s sleep, and yet I was still up at 6am to potter about in the kitchen and prepare my beloved’s breakfast tray. She is back at work so I hardly knew how to occupy my time. Shopping in the empty aisles of Sainsbury’s I picked up some exotic…
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Continue reading →: Be more dog
There was an interesting article in last Sunday’s Observer magazine. Mark Rowlands is a philosopher and dog owner who put forward the idea that dogs have the right idea about life – just live it. His 5 tips on how to be more dog:
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Continue reading →: Bulhouse East
Every Tuesday my older son and I visit a bar on the other side of town called Bulhouse East. They brew their own ales and have several guest ales, also on draught. My current favourite is Road Trippin, a refreshing pale ale that goes down very easily. They have stouts…
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Continue reading →: Dormant Sunday mornings
Northern Ireland has strict licencing laws that protect it’s citizens from the evils of drink on a Sunday morning. The consequence of that religiously inspired decision is that Sunday mornings are dead times…no supermarkets open until 1 pm and very few coffee bars open much before midday.
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Continue reading →: Ghostly emptiness of early morning supermarket
I have been out and about very early of late. Sainsbury’s opens at 8am, and during the school holidays the vast emporium is practically empty. It feels a bit like the atmosphere of the film ‘The Shining’. If twin young girls appeared in the cleaning products aisle I wouldn’t be…
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