Andorra is situated between France and Spain, in what I like to call the Pyreneeum.
I have set up a toll gate
3 minutes of ear scratches to pass
Very cheering. Gorgeous photo of a gorgeous singer.
Ah Kirsty and Phil, love ‘em, love looking at other people’s houses - it’s a wonder she didn’t combust at the mention of vaccines.
Jeez Louise.
'Publishing is an industry that has often proclaimed itself to be on the brink of collapse; yet the persistence of books tells a different story.' EXCEPTIONALLY proud of co-Tramp Lisa Coen for this clear-eyed, straight-up introduction to essays on women's writing in Ireland of the last decade
There’s a caption competition in this photo, Jan! Great discussion of the short story on Arena just now.
Sounds like a hobby I can start now, the planning bit anyway!
I have- and yes, it is a great obsession!!
Thank you for this - I am thinking about a rail trip in Europe one of these years!!
Three episodes in to Small Prophets and I love it.
Those are serious accolades from fab writers- looking forward to reading your book and to having you on Arena - congrats, Niamh!
Spare a thought for blues legend Snoozy Joe Benson, who used to sleep till gone noon, and consequently had no way of starting his songs.
Ah, love John Lanchester - he is a guest on Arena on 18th March re the new novel Look What You Made Me Do.
Murder on the Orient Express with cast to die for- Finney, Bacall, Connery, Redgrave, Gielgud etc! Thank you RTE TV +1!
We really do- many of them are mothers, aunts, grandmothers, teachers- this is a great photo!
Yes, 30 years ago I’d have been a London customer- great bookshops!!
Mind already boggling, sounds mysterious!
Dedicates Games Without Frontiers to the victims of the ‘unnecessary war in Nicaragua’
Watching Peter Gabriel gig in Athens in 1987- c/o Sky Arts- out of the marvellous!
They might be - some customer service people / systems are ace - but maddening and very Kafkaesque when you get snarled up like that. Turns me into Basil Fawlty beating his car with the branch of a tree!
Oh god, if hell exists ..
Horrible, hope you can soothe yourself out of it …
Keep going, sir, and keep us posted.
Likewise, Mr M. There are still plenty of us in Ireland anyway whose parents had to leave school at 14. And my dad too was one of the smartest people.
And goodness knows, having a degree is no guarantee of intelligence either.
Celebrity FACT: Michael J Fox always sits in his garden with his back to the fuchsia.
Seeing him in Dublin on Friday 23th- loved American Utopia. Also loved him solo with guitar at the Shepherds Bush Empire some time in the 90s - for the album Uh Oh.
Thanks Lisa -
Great review- spot on about Mary Costello writing simply, and that parallel with Coetzee interesting- I’ve only read Disgrace (on hol at a family wedding in Durban)- and I loved it.
