This is the blog’s 3rd Christmas Eve and each year I’ve reposted this poem: ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled [...]
You know the way some families send out mass newsletter-type cards? With a picture of the whole family on the front and inside detailing of all the family’s goings-on on the inside? Well, I’ve been tinkering with the drums so much since I’ve got back, lavishing them with love and attention as I imagine parents [...]
If you’re like me, you still haven’t started your Christmas shopping. You’re also starting exams today. D’oh! I came across this really neat tip via GeekDad as to how much you should spend on Christmas gifts. 1. Let’s choose a budget for our shopping. For this example, I’m going to choose €60. 2. Make a [...]
Despite the plethora of tweets and Facebook postings from Irish folks, and the announcement that schools are to close until Thursday, the Collison household has seen less than its fair share of snow, until today. We’ve been treated with the usual barrage of rain with some sub-zero temperatures, but we hadn’t been the setting for [...]
This post, originally posted on February 19th, 2008, less than 2 months into my no-chocolate year. John took it upon himself this year to make me eat chocolate. He failed. In honour of this, and of his efforts, which were undeniably good, here’s a reblog of his most dastardly attempt: Sit back, relax, and attend [...]
Well, because it’s the holidays, I just lose track of the days. When you’re doing nothing but drumming and playing cards, you can’t really differentiate which is a weekend day and which is a weekday. C’est impossible! Yes, I’ve joined the Glee train, and this week’s song is Don’t Stop Believin’. There’s a drumming video [...]
Well, Christmas is over. The next big thing we have to look forward to is the coming of the New Year. I think the days between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day perhaps my favourite days all year. No one is working, in fact, no one is doing anything at all really. I think it’s [...]
We are a family of precious few traditions, it has to be said. Well, tradition in the, erm, traditional sense of the word. You know, like going to midnight mass or having Grandma over for Christmas dinner, or everyone piling on the couch at 20:30 on a Christmas Eve to catch the Father Ted Christmas [...]
There’s too much ritualistic, I-don’t-mean-it-but-it’s-what’s-done wishing of a Merry Christmas on blogs and Twitter I think. This isn’t one of those Merry Christmases, I assure you :) Twitter had a gift for me too: Abuse? I don’t tweet thaaat much. Certainly I know several people who do elephantine proportions much more accurately than I do [...]
I’ll come out and say it: I’m not the world’s greatest fan of poetry. I’ll read it an appreciate it but I never enjoyed the autopsies that you do in school, spending many lessons agonizing to find hidden meanings behind the lines, between the lines and wherever else you care to look. There are however [...]