Meet Shuri
This little kitten was wandering on the road; her eyes sealed shut and unable to see. So we picked her up and called into the house that it looked like she...
27 October 2018
April 2018 round-up
In April I read 7 books, 5 by women and 2 by men. Two non-fiction. My book of the month has to be The cat who walked a thousand miles by...
6 May 2018
Consider Phlebas
This news, that Amazon Studios to Bring Iain M. Banks’s Culture to the Small Screen, could be interesting, I read a fair few Banks books in the past. Never got through...
22 February 2018
Panther: First Look (No Spoilers)
Some movies want to make you act antisocially or, I dunno, drive really aggressively or beat somebody up. Black Panther makes you want to go home and clean up your neighborhood....
18 February 2018
Condemned to remember
We are all possible victims We are all possible perpetrators. Possible bystanders.
15 February 2018
Jan 2018 round-up
And like that January is over and we’re slap bang into February! It’d be remiss of me, and possibly even unIrish if I didn’t mention the beginning of the “stretch in...
2 February 2018
Well, that’s 2017 over and done with
I’m going to ignore how terrible a year it was, in so many ways, and just look at the books and film I enjoyed this year. I just about made my...
2 January 2018
it cant be bargained with, it cant be reasoned with, it doesn’t feel pity or remorse or fear, and it absolutely will not stop
So I’ve been mostly absent from www-land recently
27 May 2017
Good news is also news!
There is a whole heap of bad news out in the world. There are terrible things happening all over the world. But it does no harm to share some of the...
3 March 2017
Happy New Year
So, another year has come and gone, and I doubt I’m the only one who was a tad disappointed by certain events1 this year. Plus all those celebrity deaths. It has...
31 December 2016
The Russian army is polite, but menacing. Impossible to defeat.
It’s been quite a while since I’ve done a non-book/film post here. I almost don’t know how to start them anymore. So, let’s see, what’s been going on. Well, this summer...
1 September 2016