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Life is a Cabaret

The frocks, the flowers – oh what a thoroughly modern wedding. I don’t exactly know when I was considered too old to be a page boy at fashionable weddings in Co Louth but my career was terminated well before I had any hair on my chest or had considered the possibilities of cross-dressing. Something I’m… Continue reading Life is a Cabaret

Qu’y a-t-il pour le déjeuner?

On Friday I took a god daughter for a belated birthday lunch. Her parents, another god parent and one of her brothers came along too.

How’s Bertie?

Rosemary thoughtfully asked after Bertie; an Irish expression?

In the Purple

Yesterday to Wimbledon with Robert. A generous friend gave us his tickets.

Glastonbury Revisited

As the Glastonbury Festival closes it’s worth reflecting on its history. Not the festival – the abbey.

To War with Whitaker

“If you buy one more book this year, do make it To War with Whitaker” wrote Dirk Bogarde in The Daily Telegraph in 1994. His advice holds true today.

It’s Saturday it’s …

“It’s Saturday, It’s Lemons Day” was a sponsored programme on Radio Eirann when I was a child. I think it promoted sherbet lemons, a nourishing boiled sweet.