Why, why do I do it?

I’ve been working late. I don’t want to but I stop off at Spar on the way home. I don’t like Spar type shops. I lose my imagination the second I walk in the door. All notions of gathering wholesome and cheap ingredients are out the anti ramming toughened windows. Diagonal aisles trick me by [...]

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No

Holemaster says No to…

Michael Bublé
Tesco own brand rip offs replacing my old favourites.
X-Factor and Strictly Come Dancing fans.
MBNA who kept upping my credit limit to the point where I could buy a car on it.
Being broke.
Noel V.Ginnity.
Down the side of the oven.
Enda Kenny – I don’t care about the Seanad, what’s your plan for the [...]

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Irish Indo Rag in Morbid Curiosity Shocker!

Anita Guidera in the Irish Independent should be really proud of herself. Her article in today’s rag of a so-called newspaper draws on the morbid curiosity of those who just can’t help themselves get off on the utter horror of other people’s tragedies. In this case, the 999 call to the fire service from a [...]

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Changing a superking size duvet

You might think having a bed which is about 6.5 feet in both directions is great. In some ways it is.. for couples who can’t sleep without walloping each other in the face accidently, going on holidays to the other side for a week, leaving all your clothes, books, letters, laptop on one side and [...]

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Coke blackmail their workers

Coca Cola HBC are implying 1100 jobs are at risk over SIPTUs threat of an all out strike over 130 outsourced jobs. I wonder if they’ll start shooting them like they allegedly do in South America. It will be interesting to see how this dispute over outsourcing takes shape considering we are a third world [...]

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Money

It’s amazing how little you can live on when you have to.

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Thud

 

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Year to the day

One year ago on this day, I was in a High Dependency Unit recovering from very major surgery. It was surgery which saved my life. I was on major doses of pain medication, drowsy, half aware of my surroundings. I had several drips, tubes, drains, stitches and monitors.
Yesterday, I ran 4km without stopping. This coming [...]

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Learning how to learn

I have a lingering desire for learning. I’m like a kid with his face up against the glass counter front, ogling the sweets. Will it be false teeth, sour cola bottles, part-time business, politics, history of art? Ideally nothing to do with work.
It’s a tough decision. I like to stroll around a gallery even I [...]

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The change

Three months in. The things I ignored at the start and now harder to ignore. Being called “dude” is not a runner anymore. Being cut off in mid sentence by her to point out something random is not not a runner anymore. Use of the word random is back to being annoying again. Her eating [...]

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