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Attitude and science
I was doing a Zoom gig the other day with The Drama Queen, Wheely Mo and a few other fellow thespians. The impact of the pandemic on disabled people came up for discussion. My Good Self made the point that it’s mostly about adaptability and that those of us who are a little different are…
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Coming together
The dust is settling on the American election and it appears increasingly likely that Not So Sleepy Joe will actually get the keys to the cosy pad on Pennsylvania Avenue. And then the American public will have to somehow find ways of healing divisions. Similar to the little medical situation that has been hogging the…
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Thank you Donald
The real winner in last night’s US Presidential election was undoubtedly the large turnout. Like him or loathe him Donald Trump has succeeded in politically energising the American public. For all its flaws and sometime corruption, politics matters. It shapes the world in which we live whether we like it or not. And America matters,…
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Bring on the French
The Six Nations rugby tournament made a welcome return to the airwaves last week with the Irish demolition of all things Italian. Poor old Italy. If it wasn’t for pizza, pasta, gelato, fine clothes and shoes, fancy cars, ski resorts, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and many great football teams, Italy would be a definite non…
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Cloning Marty
I have written before in admiration of Marty Whelan and his breakfast show on Lyric fm. And so I am writing again on this subject. The man is just something of a national treasure in these interesting times. At least to my mind anyway. And so I sent off a little electronic communication to the…
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Life goes on
And so lockdown number two is definitely not as ghostly as the original of the species. There are certainly at least four or five people floating around Dublin City centre at any given time these days. Maybe even six or seven. There is certainly more traffic. As for My Good Self I roll along in…
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The Santa situation
Here we go again. The first lockdown actually worked reasonably well, so basic logic would have it that this one will see a similar result. All of which leads to the debate between basic logic and human behaviour. Heretofore these two aspects of existence have not always seen eye to eye. I fear disagreement is…
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Hanging out with The Goddess
I was making my way through some morning coffee, having posted a few words of supposed wisdom to you, my devoted readers, when all of an unexpected suddenness, the blower started to blast. And who was it on the other end only my good friend, The Greek Goddess? And lo and behold, she was in…
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A higher bar
I was listening to an old recording the other day of the guitarist John Williams playing ‘Cavatina’ on the Val Doonican show many years ago. I was curious about the speed that he was playing at. He seemed to be moving his fingers at a rate close to 110 beats per minute (bpm) The musical…
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A moving story
I was listening to a BBC radio documentary yesterday on the American national anthem, The Star Spangled Banner. It contained around five or six human stories relating to the tune. I found one of the stories in particular to be quite moving. It’s worth a listen. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct0x67
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