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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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Continue reading →: The woman who wasn’t there
Fergus, a man of 90 years and sober for 42 years told me this true story… He was only on his first pint of the day in a bar in South Belfast in the 1980s when the gunmen burst in and started firing. The man next to him dragged him…
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Continue reading →: Feet
As British soldiers yomped across the Falkland Islands one problem became apparent as their boots sank into the boggy ground. Their boots were not waterproof, so long marches in boggy ground were going to take a toll on the soldiers’ feet. Now, I am no yomping British soldier, but as…
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Continue reading →: Chain guard sorted
Austin at Belfast Bicycle Workshop knows his stuff and is very helpful. My wife’s chain guard had come off along with the bolts which are scattered somewhere on Belfast’s potholed roads. The thread on the chain guard was knackered so Austin fixed me up with some cable ties. He would…
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Continue reading →: Art for art’s sake
Another interesting evening in the Errigle attending a gathering of artists. I joined a table of two John’s and enjoyed hearing about John’s conceptual art work. There was a presentation and a demonstration by an artist who had several of his prints on show. I bought a landscape print in…
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Continue reading →: Socratic rhetoric
What do I know? How do I know it? What is the convincing proof?
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