I've finally finished the West Cork podcast (yes, yes, 2 years late, I know), and by God it's gripping. What a skill to make such a compelling listen out of a story we all think we know already. Whether or not Bailey is guilty, there's no denying the man is a narcissistic...
...psychopath. When asked about his extreme violence towards his partner, he says they’re like “Richard Burton & Liz Taylor”; the arrogance and lack of self-awareness of the man is staggering.
A thread: Getting a lot of messages about censorship of certain social media accounts and websites, how “dangerous” this is for freedom of speech & how we all need to make up our own minds. Sigh. When I was a kid (pre-internet), my parents bought us a set of encyclopedia books
It was a big deal to have them, they were expensive, paid for month by month, but meant we didn’t have to trot off to the library every time we needed information on something. Our friends would come over to use them too, you’d get a call from someone who had to do a project on
Egypt (usually by tomorrow) & they’d pop over to plagiarise the section on Pharaohs and pyramids and we’d crack out the biscuit tin. I remember the scandal when Britannica had to admit to an occasional typo or date error in any of their books – they were so well fact-checked that
You know you’re getting old when you look through the Zara website and instead of coveting the clothes, you want to buy the models a sandwich. Jaysus but they’re very thin*.
*I’M NOT BODY SHAMING ANYONE SO DON’T @ ME!!!
I mean, I’m not even sure which way this girl is facing?
Late to the party here, but how is everyone my age (and their kids) not talking about @CobraKaiSeries ? (Or maybe they are but I don’t have enough friends). It’s fabulous!! 🐍
Also @WilliamZabka and @ralphmacchio both look like someone in make up has just aged them up slightly. The premise wouldn’t have worked for many other 80’s stars.
As an aside, like 75% of my generation, I took up karate after seeing the movie. I’ve always been a bit of a lightweight. First lesson and I asked could I go to the loo midway. Sensei said “Sure! Take your time!” I thought that was nice til I realised it was sarcasm. When I...
I said I'd try and show you all a few pages from my Dad Tom's postcard book, collated by his very proud Mum back in New Ross. A time pre affordable air travel, when no one really went abroad, and here he was travelling to such far-flung places at Beirut and Lagos...
My darling grandmother had a very hard life, and she was so proud of him, as we are now. Now, the back of the postcards are a different story, let's just say they're very concise! 🤣 So here we go: