Irish Bloggers Unite

"Writing in a Twist" has been nominated
for the
Irish Blog Awards, 2009.

Many thanks to all who made this possible.






Irishkc.com devised this cunning .gif.

Fair Dinkum.

Academics Unite

During an idle moment this morning
I looked at the Extramural Classes
being offered by Trinity College.

Maybe next year...

All my friends seemed to have been innoculated
with a writing bug at birth.

They have produced books, pamphlets,
theses, "belles lettres", manuals
and various specialist articles
on everything from herbs to
multi-lingualism over the years.

Long may it continue...

I thought about writing a post about the Budget

for the Irish Republic for 2009...

and then thought better of it.

The roaring which surrounded its presentation yesterday
was quite enough to make me turn the TV off and wait to
read about what was actually being said.

Apparently callers to radio stations throughout the land
have been less restrained.
The general consensus seems to be that it is

"Not A Good Thing" and, if things go on as they are,
they are bound to get much worse.

Having been blessed with an up-beat an optimistic temperament
comes to the fore during such "Interesting Times".

I head out into the garden, study the lilies of the field
and wonder if they are edible.
The family of blackbirds that responded so well to Summer feeding
and to the shelter of dense hedging which hems in our garden
are now being eyed with a view to possible protein content.

We probably shall not go hungry.
However, it will be more than interesting to see
how things evolve...