Blog | Unpacking My Bottom Drawer

Today is my mate’s birthday. Were he still gracing the world with his presence, he’d be in fancy dress somewhere celebrating. He was a great

I can’t imagine life without books. I love where they send me. The lovable Mike Romeo, from the pen of Toby Neal, introduced me to

The Debs, that student dinner dance in Leaving Cert year, was the first in a series of milestone events. Then came the 21sts. And the

The inimitable Pat Browne moved on this week and my world will be a lot less colourful without him. We were in school together many

It took seven months for the envelope to get from Ireland to Hungary. For seven months, the small package languished in the bowels of some

For the seventh time in twice as many years, I have once again boarded the Hungarian language train after nearly a 12-month stopover in the

A couple of things happened today that distracted me from the heat.

After spending hours picking cherries and then standing over a bowl pitting them, I was all for preserving them in the simplest way possible: a

Thirty-four flights departed from Budapest Airport yesterday. One of them took my friend back home to Edinburgh. I was watching the sky to see if

If I could claim back all the money I spent on gym memberships, I’d be able to buy another of Michael Pettet’s paintings and another

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