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Continue reading →: If music be the food of love…
There’s too much music. People can’t walk down the street without headphones and pubs think every area, indoors and out, has to be awash with sound. The quiet appreciation of good music is a rarity. Mostly music is experienced in noisy surroundings, or else the bass is so loud that…
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Continue reading →: Permission to be still… or trap the monster
I have just started a new MOOC – Literature and Mental Health presented by the University of Warwick. The above contains soundbites from some celebrity contributors. Firstly, the notion that a book gives you permission to be still and contemplative, and secondly that writing with a beautiful style about something…
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Continue reading →: Numinous
It’s autumn and the leaves are turning from shades of green to browns and oranges. The days are shortening and the Black Mountain in Belfast has low clouds hanging off the summit rolling down its flanks. Is this ‘numinous’? It all depends on your point of view. For me there is…
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Continue reading →: OCD
There may be the odd person who has noticed a slight change in my demeanour. There is an edginess that indicates all is not zen. Could it be the approach of another academic year and a huge surge in the workload? No, it is a compulsion both irrational and yet somehow…
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Continue reading →: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
My niece’s wedding was beautiful. The bride looked amazing as did her entourage. A character called George was central to the occasion and featured in a speech made by the groom’s grandfather. The church service had just the right amount of informality to put everyone at their ease and celebrate the…
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Continue reading →: Ulster vs Dragons
I will be going to watch Ulster play the Newport Gwent Dragons in the Pro12 this evening with my youngest son. It will be a good excuse for a few pints, some loud cheering and meet up with some fellow Ulster fans at the ground. Our new full back, Charles Piutau…
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Continue reading →: Take a couple of days off work and go to WordCamp Belfast
Fancy going to WordCamp Belfast, but don’t want to lose your days off? Then we’ve got your back… just ask your boss for a couple of days off in lieu. With our WordCamp being held over a Saturday and Sunday, … Continue reading Take a couple off days of work,…
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Continue reading →: Farewell Gene Wilder
What a comic actor Gene Wilder was! If you haven’t seen any of his films, I would recommend: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Blazing Saddles, The Producers and Young Frankenstein (to name only four from a stack of really funny films).
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Continue reading →: Meat is Murder – discuss
Morrissey has a point. Killing animals for food is not a very practical way of feeding the most people (read Peter Singer’s stuff). Grow crops, let cattle wander about grazing, give them additional feed, house them indoors in winter and, when the price is right, kill them. On the other hand,…
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Continue reading →: Burgers are not the only Meat
As an omnivore, I like burgers as well as homemade coleslaw and baked potato. That was last night’s dinner. For the troops I had fried some chips, but they were not well done. I suppose deep frying raw potato required some other spud variety or a longer fry at a…
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