WELL, after last week's parenting treat of little to no fights, everyone getting along and generally being happy and content, it was only a matter of time before a fresh batch of hell was waiting ...
ON MY FIRST DAY of posting to Gulf War I arrived at Headquarters British Forces Middle East (HQBFME) and reported on arrival to the Chief of Staff, Col Ian Talbot (Google him, it’s interesting). He had ...
I’M PROBABLY going to get on your parenting nerves straight away here. It’s actually been a good week. A nice week. Yes, we’ve had a few minor spats but in general, everyone has got on ...
SOME DAYS AGO, the Government of Hong Kong and the Government of Singapore confirmed creating an air travel bubble between the cities that they govern. This air travel bubble effectively means tourists and expatriates can ...
FOR SOME TIME, the concept of an International Men’s Day, which, at time of writing, it still is, was a bit of a joke used only to shut down the cretins who would respond to ...
LIKE MY Christmas cake a few weeks back on ThinkScotland this is the favourite that I just go back to year on year, it's fail-safe and tastes delicious.
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Burning Heresies: A Memoir of a Life in Conflict, 1979-2020, Dublin: Merrion Press, 2020, 320 pp, ISBN 9781785372612, £18.99
By Tom Gallagher
KEVIN MYERS has written a riveting account of ...
IT’S THAT FUNNY time of year when Halloween is over and finished – woo hoo! So when is it acceptable to put the Christmas decorations up? If it was up to me, I would start ...
IN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Errata: An examined life, the literary critic, essayist and philosopher George Steiner, described his first encounter with Martin Heidegger’s monumental, Sein und Zeit. Steiner related how he was unable to grasp even the most ...
I LOVE this time of year. The trick or treating round the houses, the run up to Christmas, the shopping, the extra hour in bed…
…but back to the year 2020 and ...
THIS IS the cake I have made for years and is fool proof as well as being the best tasting Christmas cake I make, despite me being swayed to try something different now and again. I have made ...
JUST ANOTHER WEEK in the life of a parent. Wake up calls at 6am, mountains of washing, making food, the Peppa Pig soundtrack in your head all day long, making food, cleaning, playing, singing, making ...