I'm copying the recent article here as I don't expect it will stay on the newspaper's website for long. Sharon Fennell and he...

Hi Johnny, old friend. You've been leading those poor gullible journalists a merry dance, haven't you, you old rogue?! Perhaps you ...

I was driving with just Duncan in the car with me. He was quiet, taking time to dream, ponder, plan or whatever. I don't know- it's ...

So how about a charming anecdote? Today, Duncan's school held a sod-cutting ceremony to mark the start of the new school building proje...

After posting yesterday on the Johnny Ball fiasco , I had a conversation on Twitter yesterday with Leo Hickman who wrote the 2 Guardian art...

I thought I might get back into blogging some time but didn't know it would happen like this. I wrote this small scale blog for a few ye...

This post might be a one off. Time will tell. Each of the children are now attending school full time. Lady (now 12) started secondary schoo...

I just listened to an interview on Radio Ulster with Nelson McCausland, the minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure (DCAL). The minister has ...

I've got free wifi and a bit of battery time left so here's the short, link free version. In summary, it was excellent. I didn't...

It's the weekend of the Irish Blog Awards and I'm off bright and early to Galway tomorrow morning to join the party. Amazingly, I...

Duncan had another appointment with the dentist this morning. Lady and Thomas have both started school now (more on that later- but it's...

Last week after his gymnastics class, Thomas came to tell me that he'd managed to do a back flip without help and on the floor. He was v...

Lady and Thomas were taken by their dad to visit the local Integrated primary school last Tuesday and both liked it so much that they decide...

This afternoon, I was driving with Lady and Duncan when Duncan said something that had us roaring laughing. A woman crossed the road in fron...

There's a campaign to encourage people to rethink the words they choose to write and say. Today, March 3 2010 , has been chosen as a day...

The film was released here just after we left for our holiday and it had been out for so long in the US that it was no longer shown in most ...