A woman is out shopping when she gets a call to say there’s been a terrible accident and her husband’s been taken to hospital badly injured. Making her way to the car she notices a sign over the entrance to the new mall: Today only – All stores, all items, just €5. I’ll just have [...]
Tempus fugit – time flees – not time flies as is the common misconception. That would be something like tempus volvit, but the linguist among us can correct me – over to you Gayé. How we came to translate it as time flies is just probably that it makes more sense in English that way. [...]
For those of you who liked my Making Movie Magic series and would like to try your hand/arm/leg at it, well now’s your chance – Annie Rhiannon is looking for volunteers to act in two student films in early November. Full details here. In other news, Grandad’s not giving up blogging, even though a lot [...]
The offices of a property management company Client: We’ve moved to a new house and we’re having no joy trying to sell the old one. We’re thinking of renting it out. How do we go about getting tenants? Agent: My first word of advice is, any darker than two weeks in Lanzarote and don’t touch [...]
We had the great eircom share sell off not so long ago. What I remember most was the incessant propaganda from every angle all but telling us how stupid we would be if we didn’t buy. Leinster House told us how we would become stakeholders in the state’s greatest corporation. (Well they wanted to offload [...]
Nearly finished folks. This is the last one. Unless there’s a sequel of course. There were another two of three days in the grounds of the Big House. Perhaps it was ten. Days seemed to melt into one another. Even when we knew we wouldn’t be called for a couple of hours we weren’t allowed [...]
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