Happy Christmas!
For many people, amongst our readership, 2021 has been a year that will not soon be forgotten. It was, for long time, the year that promised an end to Covid 19, yet failed, in the end, to deliver. It was also a year of major changes: A new American President took office. The war in […]
Yes, really.
A music teacher once told me that instead of buying yet another bit of glitter, or knick knacks that remained forever unused, she always gave CDs of traditional music as Christmas presents. I’ve done the same since: stocking fillers that help keep music alive and don’t just fatten the coffers at Amazon. We’re coming close to Christmas now, […]
Merry Christmas to you too
Grinches
According to minutes from a meeting on Thursday leaked to the BBC, UK health advisors are drawing up plans for a new lockdown after Christmas. According to the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) – the British equivalent of NPHET – restrictions are needed “very soon” if the UK is to avoid 3,000 hospitalisations a […]
Other retailers should take note
Leave Christmas alone
That’s a mark of where our culture is, and what people feel it necessary to say, to prove their own normality and cultural sensitivity.
Shop Local
Amidst all of the panic induced by the moves towards restricting travel to Ireland from overseas, several things appear to catch the attention. RTÉ’s Primetime made a big show of “calling out” people arriving back to Dublin on flights having either been on holidays as tourists, or as Spanish students and others who live here and […]