Photo owned by Rev Stan (cc) One of my earliest memories is John teaching me how a rook moves. I think that I’ve known how to play Chess for maybe 8-odd years. I measured how much I was improving by how easily (if at all) I could beat family members. After a couple of years, [...]
The sunlight was so brilliant that day, you could’ve cut it with a butter-knife. It was June, and I was in the car with John, driving home from a weekend with my cousins. We had just left when John turned on the radio, switching it to CD mode. “I made a new one” he called [...]
Except that I was never the world’s number 1 fan of U2. Sure, they’re okay, but best band ever? Nah mate. The song brings me back a few years to when we lived in Tipperary. During one summer, John got his first Apple desktop machine and I started with a new physio. Hardly a fair [...]
Here and here. The A-Team is getting a silver-screen adaption. One of my favourite childhood TV shows is getting its debut in cinemas everywhere. The television show, which debuted in 1983, followed a group of Robin Hood-style mercenaries who travelled America helping people in need, usually people in a business in danger of being seriously [...]
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 [...]
People I never really had. I read blogposts by different people (mainly from IrishStudentBlogs folks) about their experiences with their grandparents, and I try to imagine what my interaction with mine would have been like. The only grandparent I have living memory of is my mum’s father, and I don’t think he ever left the [...]
Today, my Dad was having minor surgery on his hand, which puts it out of action for a while. I decided to go along to the procedure, which was done with only local anesthetic. Partly because I’d never been at a surgery before where I wasn’t the patient and partly because, as I pointed out [...]
Life is full of firsts. First day at school, first time riding a bike, first time eating chili so hot you can’t taste anything for a week. I remember my first day of primary school. It was the one year -ever- that the my brothers were in the same school as me. Patrick had scampered [...]
I’ve always loved it. When I was growing up though, I favored Monopoly – I was the shoe and I was going to take all your money in a serious of carefully calculated risky ventures, that was how it worked (in my mind, at least). Unfortunately, there were two problems: Firstly, monopoly games take a [...]
or, A brief history of TimeTommy, erm, TrustTommy Not quite, it’s actually tomorrow, Sunday, but since the actual Web Awards is on tonight, this post is still valid. As I tell folks, this blog started in April of last year. I still remember it.. reading the blogs of two hilarious UK friends who are unfortunately [...]