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gone to the beach 9 Jun 2013 | 01:18 pm
Greystones is covered in cyclists but he finds somewhere to ditch the car for a few minutes, drags the bike out, pins his wife's number on her back and kisses her goodbye and good luck. He wriggles hi...
Radge against the machine 27 May 2013 | 09:37 pm
I feel it would be remiss of me to let the decision of a blogging contemporary and like-minded soul to give up the ghost pass without remark. I've been at this for about five years now, and Radge was ...
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know 22 Feb 2013 | 10:52 pm
January saw me haunting the streets of Stoneybatter at every available quiet or light moment, searching for our missing cat, Butters. The plumber had let him out, and he obviously bolted, then didn't ...
Do you have a minute? 27 Dec 2012 | 07:11 am
Are you having a good Christmas? Have you consumed? Do you spend an inordinate amount of time giving out about things beyond your control, TV shows you are supposed to like, social media trends and th...
Priorities 16 Nov 2012 | 12:40 am
I came home on Tuesday and started a new post. I wanted to to tell you about a nice encounter I'd just had on the bus, and by way of that, fill people in on what's been going on with me and ruminate o...
"Leah was tender-eyed" 14 Aug 2012 | 03:48 am
With her pissy, mewling offspring all moved on, we sent our cat to be spayed in late June of 1995. 'Smiler', was the name she came to us with - presumably intended to be deeply ironic, as she wore the...
who is showing whom their bloody rag now? 28 Jun 2012 | 12:00 am
Every time I check your blog, to see if you've written a new post, I'm reminded of you being sad, and don't like that. I know it's not something you control, but you should never be sad, because you a...
I will be with you when you lose your brave 10 Mar 2012 | 06:48 am
The M4, a dank Friday evening. "I knew you'd been out of sorts for a bit, but I didn't know it was this bad." "I know you didn't, I didn't want you to." He looked everywhere except her face, and felt...
äppärät yeah! 21 Feb 2012 | 02:42 pm
Chancing My Arm is now available to all my readers in snazzy mobile device form! Everyone else has had their blog available in this format for fucking ages, you say! I know! But I'm still excited! I'm...
of course i've had it in the ear before 16 Jan 2012 | 03:43 am
This is a post I handwrote in late October 2009, a few weeks after I'd been (temporarily, but indefinitely) laid off from my teaching job. I'm not sure why I never got around to typing it up, but a vi...
