Litoralis

I’ve had a very integrated few days. Thursday evening at Stu Bailie’s book launch “The Song is Nearly Over”, a celebration of the best of his journalism covering punk, Britpop and thereafter. Then came Terri Hooley’s last performance (perhaps!). I reminisced to myself about Shaun Robinson’s punk assembly and was very pleased to meet up at the event with Shirley, our erstwhile Alternative Chaplain. Then came Friday and daring to make my first visit to the newly re-opened Ancho

I have always instinctively preferred collaborative structures, and felt uncomfortable with hierarchies. I always tried to respect the...

I am not easy to help. I like to be independent. I must also have a terrible reputation that only sugar will do. Alicia came first and...

My daddy used to work in Lurgan Hospital and it was his best job ever. He was brought up posh, but due to the collapse of the linen...

Loved walking in the snow away up paths behind our borrowed house. Coyotes live there, it says on one of the many, many notices. Some...

How I ended up here involves somebody's secrets, so I can't fill in that detail. Here is amazing. Amazing to me are the Rocky Mountains...

Baby Oisin Peter only lived an hour. Integration has made me a bit more confident about attending funerals where there won't be any...

The present of a door made me think back to appreciate other presents I have known. I have a very wee, bone china trinket box with pink...

I get all the best presents. My friend has given me a door. It is a truly wonderful present. The front door of my house had been...

Lightening tour of were all matters to Liam. I got them at Dublin airport on Saturday early. Got ourselves home, unpacked and did some...

" I think that the people coming here illegally do possess values which are at odds with our country. We are seeing heightened levels of...

I arranged to meet a person today for a particular, administrative purpose. But then we started to chat. We ranged widely across tales of...

Very interesting report from the Equality Commission, marking the fact that the Northern Ireland workforce has reached a 50%/50% balance...

What a weird birthday, singing Messiah all day out of the score my mammy bought me in 1970. Everyone else had a download or a paperback...

I saw a death notice for the husband of a friend just the day before the funeral. The death had been latterly sudden, despite a lengthy...

Offered a confident lift to a friend, then quailed and decided to try out Maps. Yes, I know everyone else has been satnavving for years,...

There may be trouble ahead, in fact there is trouble ahead. I have no bother with causes and have ended up in many a struggle where the...

I have a friend who is very brave. She is almost impossible to write about, because she is discreet and diffident and has no idea how...

I have just as many expert opinions on gates. There are nice, chunky gates with new and well oiled latches. But I know they won't last....

Bad feeling, pulling the flap off the letter box and knowing the leaflet you've just posted exposes your candidate. Letter boxes have...