06.30.08
Posted in Sunday Times Columns at 11:10 pm by Sarah
What is the line?
We have been harvesting our greens. It’s SO gratifying. Salads of spinach, rocket and two kinds of lettuce. We are so delighted with ourselves and sigh and say “Yes, it IS working out” and then immediately panic that we are being smug and self-congratulatory and something awful is bound to happen. Like the Gods saying “Ha! They think they are great! But WE will show them”.
What is the difference between saying “phew, we made good choices and we are reaping the rewards – cheers dahling” and being horrible?
Is there some Irish taboo against talking oneself up? Are we culturally programmed to run ourselves down for fear others will think we’re getting airs? When is it ok to say “Wow. We did well. Hurrah!”
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Posted in Uncategorized at 3:13 pm by Sarah
See lads, you are killing us!!
The Irish Times is now free online.
Will I get a refund on my subscription?
And the typeface is very small. I’ve had to increase the view on my browser…
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Posted in Uncategorized at 10:50 am by Sarah
Aw. What a shame its all over. Bill, John, Liam and Eamo. What stars. I didn’t watch the matches (except the penalty shoot-outs) but LOVED the boys. Eamo should really stick to football. He’s great. And poor Liam leaving. It was emotional really.
And good that Spain won.
NOW, I have a question.
Heating hot water in summer. Which is cheaper? The emersion or the oil-fired boiler with the radiators turned down?
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06.27.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 9:39 pm by Sarah
I hate plot holes.
Like, in Sex and the City, why didn’t Big have a best man? Wouldn’t that have solved a LOT of problems? She has 3 bridesmaids and he’s on his own?
And in BSG, Series 2, when the “reporter” who turns out to be a cylon, comes aboard the Galactica, why don’t they insist that every civilian who gets onto Galactica is tested? Wouldn’t that be just a basic security measure?
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Posted in Sunday Times Columns at 10:50 am by Sarah
Oh dear.
I was at the kitchen sink, as a good little housewife should be 
and saw a sudden flash of black under the white thorn hedge. A cat! Leaping for and seizing some prey, which of course I assumed was a bird. But it was grey and seemed a bit big for a bird. Surely not? I dashed upstairs for a better view. A rabbit! Bloody cat had managed to get a rabbit. He took a couple of seconds to control it and then nonchalantly strolled across the lawn and down the driveway holding it by the neck between its teeth. It looked heavy! I didn’t recognise the cat although we have noticed some cruising through recently. He was a blocky looking thing. Almost muscley which for a cat, is odd. I considered giving the cat a fright in case he dropped the rabbit, which may not have been dead. But….well, then I’d just have a nearly dead rabbit to deal with.
Good job he didn’t get a bird or that would a Dead Cat Walking. (My father is the Avenger of Murdered Birds).
I’m quite shocked.
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06.26.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 11:11 pm by Sarah
PO’Neill is on Rove’s case….
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Posted in Uncategorized at 12:43 pm by Sarah
So only now, did Lara Marlowe (or anyone else for that matter) get round to checking with Giscard D’Estaing about THAT quote
” Mr Giscard said he was unaware until now that a passage from an opinion piece about the EU constitution published in Le Monde and The Irish Times in June 2007 was widely quoted on posters and by No campaigners. In an article in The Irish Times during the campaign, Declan Ganley, wrote that Mr Giscard had “boasted that ‘public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals we dare not present to them directly’.”
Mr Giscard’s next, unquoted paragraph, however, makes clear that he regarded such an approach as “unworthy” and likely to “confirm European citizens in the idea that the construction of Europe is organised behind their backs by lawyers and diplomats”.
And Mr Giscard insists that the passage quoted pertained only to France. The French had voted on a first treaty, and there was talk of a new one.
“[The government] wanted to tell them ‘it’s not the same’ when, in reality, the content was the same. So [my] argumentation was for the French. It had no meaning for people who had not voted on the text, like the Irish.”
So, what took so long in getting this checked. It shoulda been simple, right?
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06.25.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:18 pm by Sarah
Oh please please watch this. Tears running down my face laughing.
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06.24.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 2:22 pm by Sarah
“We blew the boom” says the Indo today.
We? Who’s this WE?
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Posted in Uncategorized at 10:53 am by Sarah
Great weather for weeding…
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