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S’cool?
July 21, 2009 – 12:01 am | 10 Comments
S’cool?

Had I foreseen that “clairvoyance” would never be my most admired skill, I would have stopped putting it on my c.v. years ago. Hindsight is a fine(r) thing.

Holy Sweary
July 13, 2009 – 12:01 am | 18 Comments
Holy Sweary

The school year is over. MiniMe prepares for second class. I start clearing the bank account of the non-essentials – direct debits, loan repayments, sponsorship for blind orphaned cripples in Bangladesh – in preparation for …

Coddlescopes
July 9, 2009 – 12:46 am | 27 Comments
Coddlescopes

Aries (Mar 21 – Apr 19)
Stop trying to satisfy everyone else’s expectations. You must learn to feel comfortable in your own skin. If the cannibalistic serial killer who’ll soon be wearing you as a suit …

It’s All So Ghastly, Frightful and Frankly Rather Disappointing
July 7, 2009 – 12:00 am | 14 Comments
It’s All So Ghastly, Frightful and Frankly Rather Disappointing

It’s been a tough week dear reader made tougher still by the complete and utter failure of my broadband service and the inability of the almighty “provider”, Virginmedia, to do anything more than come round …

Bling Of Truth
July 6, 2009 – 12:01 am | 11 Comments
Bling Of Truth

We was tough as teenagers, me and mah girlies. We was ruthless, sassy, cool – the Pink Ladies crossed with a collaboration of frustrated crocodiles.

Leer and Loathing in Killarney
June 29, 2009 – 12:01 am | 18 Comments
Leer and Loathing in Killarney

By some curious combination of misadventure and recklessness, I ended up in Killarney yesterday afternoon.
There is no finer place in Ireland for people-watching, because most of them are foreign, and the rest of them are …

Transcript of a Real Life Exorcism
June 25, 2009 – 12:02 am | 25 Comments
Transcript of a Real Life Exorcism

It is well known but poorly documented that I underwent a Catholic exorcism in the spring of 1971. I had been dabbling heavily in the occult for some months, ritually sacrificing hedgehogs, smoking joints made …

Crispy Business
June 22, 2009 – 12:45 am | 17 Comments
Crispy Business

I travelled back in time last Friday.
No, not to last Friday. That would have been a bit pointless, going back in time all of three days … unless I’d done something utterly catastrophic on …