The facts of food
Alternative facts have long existed in the world of food. When you create a powerful enough fiction, you are no longer bound by the need for evidence, for fact checking, for responsibility and a...
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Making Plans for the Weekend
You’ve probably seen this one already: Or it might look like this: I was going to write a post featuring that image because Taoiseach Leo Varadkar announced yesterday that everyone in the Republic of...
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The new normal
A month is a long time, an advert on the February 27th Naked Scientists podcast was run by the Local Enterprise Office here in Ireland for “Local Enterprise Week” at the beginning of March to “help...
View ArticleCoronavirus Rhapsody
Mama, I just killed a manI didn’t stay inside in bedI walked past him, now he’s dead.I don’t wanna dieI sometimes wish I never went out at all. Thanks Paolo.
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Memories of the now
Diego is happy to stay inside. Be like Diego. I started writing about what’s happening with Covid-19 on St. Patrick’s Day this year and I said I was writing for future me. While it’s impossible to...
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5km From Home
From today people in Ireland (south of the border) can go up to 5km from home to exercise. The over 70s who have been cocooning at home are allowed out but warned to stay well away from anyone else....
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Day 5 of Covid-19
I managed to avoid Covid-19 all this time, but on Monday afternoon I started to come down with what I thought was a bad cold. Monday night test. No photos of the positive tests on Wednesday. The first...
View ArticleThree years ago the schools closed
I was reminded by this Reddit thread that it was three years ago today that schools closed in Ireland because of a new virus that caused an illness called COVID-19. Later that week I started posting...
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An umbrella for the sun
Why don’t people use an umbrella to shield themselves from the sun when they’re out for a walk? It’s a perfectly natural item to use if rain is falling from the sky, but if it is the UV radiation of a...
View ArticleF***ing Kidney Stones
The pain I’ve felt in the last few days because of a tiny little stone inside in my body is worse than anything I’ve ever experienced. Absolutely excruciating and uncomfortable. It’s weird drinking...
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