The Lockdown Blog: Isolation, Day 23
I sit now, cheese toastie lying temptingly beside me and a fermentation vessel, loaded with a treacly sweet smelling liquid, sitting...
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Jan 24, 20212 min read
The Lockdown Blog: Isolation, Day 22
Brown paper packages tied up with string, these are a few of my favourite things....I also like brown cardboard packages that arrive in...
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Twenty Something
Jan 23, 20212 min read
The Lockdown Blog: Isolation, Day 21
My new friend and bike, Juliette, was looking particularly foxy this morning. She has been suited and booted with a new pannier rack to...
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Twenty Something
Jan 22, 20212 min read
The Lockdown Blog: Isolation, Day 20
What is your technique for bringing your space shuttles into land? I personally like to make sure that gear flaps are engaged and that my...
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Twenty Something
Jan 21, 20212 min read
The Lockdown Blog: Isolation, Day 19
Smashing is a smashing word isn't it? It seems to encompass excitement and brilliance but in a kick-ass, plate breaking kind of way. My...
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Twenty Something
Jan 20, 20211 min read
The Lockdown Blog: Isolation, Day 18
And thus this great stupendous day: the dog is kicked out of its kennel. Yes, it's Biden Harris! Despite Child A's mutterings of "jeeez,...
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Twenty Something
Jan 19, 20211 min read
The Lockdown Blog: Isolation, Day 17
Monopoly is amazing at its ability to turn, even the most unwilling, participants into fat cat capitalists. It's almost like it's...
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Twenty Something
Jan 18, 20212 min read
The Lockdown Blog: Isolation, Day 16
I believe people--animals included--are getting more tactical these days. It's the pandemic push to our grey matter. Walking along the...
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Twenty Something
Jan 17, 20212 min read
The Lockdown Blog: Isolation, Day 15
Today I did not buy the Sunday paper. I have been buying it religiously for the past three weeks, a part of my ritual in splendid...
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Twenty Something
Jan 16, 20212 min read
The Lockdown Blog: Isolation, Day 14
Spotted: coloured bunting flapping in the wind like Bhutanese prayer flags but spelling 'The Village Square' outside Rathgar's...
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Twenty Something
Jan 15, 20212 min read
The Lockdown Blog: Isolation, Day 13
If you look at things from a completely different point of view, you'll see some pretty f**** weird stuff. Example: Porridge. Just a...
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Twenty Something
Jan 14, 20212 min read
The Lockdown Blog: Isolation, Day 12
Today was a day of wandering and wondering. I wandered along Dublin's River Dodder, wondering at it's pale ale frothiness, and...
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Twenty Something
Jan 13, 20212 min read
The Lockdown Blog: Isolation, Day 11
Twitterature. I am not a Twitter-er but the idea of using this network to publish stories, drip fed 140 characters at a time, excites and...
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Twenty Something
Jan 12, 20211 min read
The Lockdown Blog: Isolation, Day 10
The missile, unopened and extremely volatile. Ernest Hemmingway penned a six word story, why shouldn't I? His was: For Sale, Baby shoes,...
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Twenty Something
Jan 11, 20212 min read
The Lockdown Blog: Isolation, Day 9
Today feels like the day when sh** starts to get real again. Or is it just Monday blues? Life is catching up and the jobs, emails and...
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Twenty Something
Jan 10, 20212 min read
The Lockdown Blog: Isolation, Day 8
The slow languorous Sunday has begun. I woke up and, after making my breakfast of coffee and porridge (garnished with a generous helping...
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Twenty Something
Jan 9, 20212 min read
The Lockdown Blog: Isolation, Day 7
Once upon a time, on a caffeine fuelled wander of the Georgian side streets of frozen south Dublin, I came across a grocer. It was one of...
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Twenty Something
Jan 8, 20212 min read
The Lockdown Blog: Isolation, Day 6
aljfdskfjslkajlknvaskvd;sfsdnvz;kvsz That's from my fingers being too numb to type. Word on the street is that it will reach -8 degrees...
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Twenty Something
Jan 7, 20212 min read
The Lockdown Blog: Isolation, Day 5
I seem to have a habit of stockpiling all of the things I need to do, however enjoyable and fulfilling they might be, to the very end of...
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Twenty Something
Jan 6, 20212 min read
The Lockdown Blog: Isolation, Day 4
Back to work day. My work during lockdown has been, most consistently, childcare. Jobbing in the often misunderstood 'arts', the effect...
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Twenty Something
Jan 5, 20212 min read
The Lockdown Blog: Isolation, Day 3
And on the third day she wrote again... Once again I have food and coffee to report of. A date was arranged and we met outside Jolin's...
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Jan 4, 20212 min read
The Lockdown Blog: Isolation, Day 2
Sitting down to write this, entry 2 of the lock blog, I am at my kitchen table facing three tin can lanterns hung up last night. I am...
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Twenty Something
Jan 3, 20212 min read
The Lockdown Blog: Isolation Day 1
It's a new dawn, it's a new year and... here I find myself, once again, writing on the advent of a new lockdown. This one, for me, feels...
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