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The Birthday Gig
Yesterday morning saw My Good Self spring into action at around five bells. As ever, my first port of call was The Magic Boiler (kettle) and a dip into my prized stash of Barry’s tea bags. Of late my mug of Day Commencing Liquid (tea) has been tasting a little better than normal. A few…
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Easy to put it on
My Good Self hopped onto the weighing scales a few weeks back. It was not long after the expedition to the Land of Eusebio (Portugal). I had done my fair share of wandering around during my travels there. I was confident of a positive reading from the scales. A reduction in my own personal land…
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The Non Stop Woman
The Non Stop Woman is a very good friend of mine. She is someone who is in a state of perpetual motion. She never sleeps. She occasionally eats. She sometimes breathes. She just never stays still. Ever. As is the case with many of my good friends and acquaintances, music has been the bonding factor…
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My Good Self
It was on this day last year that My Good Self, The Guinness Pensioner and the Current Man In Her Life enjoyed a most pleasant little get together in the The Great Institution of Chatham Street. Today, 29 November, marks the birth date of a certain writer, musician, skier, chess player and imbiber of alcoholic…
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The Great Music School of Ely Place
In Spring of 2015 My Good Self attended a two day conference in London entitled ‘Vision Impaired Musicians Lives’. Joining me was The Counsellor, who had recently received an email inviting him to the conference. There was a definite hint of serendipity and happy coincidence about that email. Three years earlier I had decided to…
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Leadership, victory and defeat
A lady by the name of Helen Clark became the first female Prime Minister of New Zealand on 27 November 1999. The world in which we live is full of division. There are individuals who are wealthy and others who struggle to make ends meet. There are people who give and those who take. And…
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Casablanca
26 November 1942 saw the premiere of the movie ‘Casablanca’. Play it Sam. Set in World War II in the Moroccan city of the same name, ‘Casablanca’ starred Humphrey Bogart (Bogie) and Ingrid Bergman. Bogie plays Rick, the cynical nightclub owner. Bergman plays Ilsa, his former lover who reappears unexpectedly one evening in his club.…
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Bob Geldof
On this day, 25 November, in 1984, a Dublin native by the name of Bob Geldof rounded up 44 friends and fellow musicians to record a pop song entitled ‘Do they know it’s Christmas?’. Band Aid was born. Geldof grew up in the middle class Dublin area of Dun Laoghaire. He first came to prominence…
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Sunday mornings in the city
Ever since I had the temerity to pop out of the womb of The Kilkenny Lady many moons ago, My Good Self has resided in The Fabulous Fair City of Dublin. I’m a Dub. A northside Dub. Having said that, on occasion I have been known to venture forth to the more affluent southside of…
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The perils of journalism
The world needs many things in order for it to keep ticking along. Marks & Spencer’s Food Hall is one of them. Brave journalists is another This week saw the detention of a man by the name of Yorgen Fenech in Malta. He was arrested in connection with the murder of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana…
Blind light 