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Lying in Lissadell.

There's an old log that lies rotting on the shore at Lissadell, right where the shingle meets the fields. It's lain there for as long as I've been...
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The Smell of Other Worlds

Every two months or so, I go to the médiathèque for a life drawing session, and the atmosphere is always strangely reverent, as if we’re about to...
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Cherry

Remembering John F. Kennedy

The Fall of an American Camelot It was a time of chivalry, of knights and ladies, performing like actors in an ethereal Brigadoon, evoking visions of...
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How does it do it?

What a wonderful thing is the human nose! detecting as up through its tubes the air goes, the scent of the lavender when the breeze blows, and so...
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Dolly Blue Monday

She'd never had it so good.
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the pie

The pie that wouldn’t crack, I bit it, I hit it, and I even kicked it. That pie just wouldn’t crack, It almost broke my back. I knifed it, forked it...
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Why We Bother

Two and a half thousand years ago the Greek philosopher Socrates was extremely worried that democracy would give rise to demagoguery. Socrates...

Satin. Part Two.

My daughter Meghan set me up recently on a fantastic, on-line site, where I can sell my things and buy beautiful things at a bargain price. This has...

Satin. Part One.

Meghan my daughter did her research and told me, “For your curly hair satin pillows is good for your hair,” So I bought lovely satin pillows from...
Cherry

What A Load of Nonsense!

At breakfast time my seeded toast smelled just like watercress while the coffee reeked of jellybeans recovered from Loch Ness My pillow smelled like...