The power to stop a nation
Today’s Irish Times has some interesting facts on the rugby match[1] An average of over one million viewers tuned into RTÉ on Saturday to witness Ireland beat England 43-13 at Croke...
27 February 2007
Oscar fever
just didn’t hit this year. I was vaguely interested, but to be honest I haven’t even looked up most of the results yet. But never fear, for Carl has an entry...
26 February 2007
You are my sunshine – Redux
My only sunshine, you make me happy when skies are grey! What a match. What a result. Role on Scotland and Italy. Super Saturday or what? The fun started before I...
24 February 2007
The tension is building
And hopefully once half five rolls around there’ll be no thought of politics or history, just rugby, and a win for us. B#5 seems to have found himself a ticket, he...
24 February 2007
TT#5
Thirteen Random Things I’m vaguely considering amalgamating this blog and Susan Hated Literature. And moving everything over there. Cause this blog is hosted with Digital Crocus, whereas the other is hosted...
22 February 2007
Photo-graphia-whatnot
Remember my last T13, where I listed stuff that I wanted. Well, there was a reason I didn’t mention a camera, as I had just gone and ordered one. A Fuji...
20 February 2007
Yes! We’re all individuals!
And so, of course, we are all entitled to our own points of view. But[1] sometimes don’t you think it’d be easier if we all thought the same way[2] Wouldn’t it...
19 February 2007
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Author: Irene Nireovsky
Two novellas and some appendices make up this book. The two fiction pieces were intended to be part of a series of books about France during World War II, but the author, Irene Nemirovsky died in a concentration camp in August 1942, and that is what makes up the non-fiction element of this book. Of course the real like story of Nemirovsky, and how this book came to be published makes up a large element of the media coverage surrounding the novel, but the fiction element alone deserves attention. The background, and fact that it was written as these events were taking place, adds to the work as a whole.
19 February 2007
Somehow I’m not surprised
We didn’t make the short list, but there are some great sites there[1] so I’ve decided to copy and paste the list of short-listed blogs, just so you can go visit.[2]...
19 February 2007
Just deserts
Do you ever watch people crossing the road and think to yourself, they deserve to be knocked down? Not killed, just bumped a little, a warning to wise up, you know....
16 February 2007
Brethren by Robyn Young
ISBN: 0340839694 The sun was approaching its zenith, dominating the sky and turning the deep ochre of the desert to a bleached bone-white. Buzzards circled the crowns of the hills that...
15 February 2007
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