Monthly Archive: January, 2002

It is a well documented phenomenon. The further people are from their homeland, the more extravagant are their celebrations of national days and events. Witness for example, the St Patrick’s Day parades in New York. They’d never see anything like them in Dublin. Or the Feast of the Three Saints in Silkwood, North Queensland. It is far more elaborate and...

Last week a father was convicted of manslaughter for having beaten to death the father of another boy at a school hockey match. On Sunday, President Bush became unconscious and fell off the sofa after having a pretzel go down the wrong way while he was watching football on TV. All this suggests, of course, that watching sport can indeed...

Within a week of arriving here in August, we bought me a sewing machine. It has been well used over the past months, enabling me to make cushions, hangings, etc to decorate the apartment, do some basic mending, including Nick’s backpack, and providing me with entertainment as I have made a number of quilts and some hats. When I bought...