By Steph | December 14, 2009
It’s the season of top 5 lists more than ever this year as we crawl to the end of a decade. Here’s my list of the things that are essential to my Christmas:
David Parkes’ Christmas Hits on repeat (cassette version too for a nice old school crackle)
Fixing the Christmas tree lights
Myself and the sisters wearing Santa [...]
By Steph | October 6, 2009
My beloved mam and dad are celebrating 30 years of marriage today.
For someone in their early 20’s (barely!) that seems like forever. That’s at least 10,950 cups of tea between them. Yikes.
It’s wonderful, truly amazing considering the ups and downs they’ve faced along the way.
They’ll probably kill me but mam was 25 and dad 22 when [...]
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By Steph | September 9, 2009
While on the bus home, the chatter on Twitter about the 09.09.09.09.09 timestamp home sparked a memory of a blog post I had read. It was on Darragh’s blog, on 08.08.08 (and probably at 8.08am too knowing him) looking back on the year that had passed. I hope he doesn’t mind be borrowing the idea [...]
By Steph | August 10, 2009
It’s been busy.
In the past week/10 days I’ve seen a fantastic production of The Rivals at The Abbey, saw David O’Doherty record a fantastic live gig at Whelans and got to go along to the wonderful Bugs Bunny on Broadway at the National Concert Hall.
In between and around all of that I’ve got to meet [...]