The Candid Blog
Rant | Eircom
I’m seriously considering hiring a personal assistant to help me run my life smoothly. I can juggle. I juggle well. I don’t have much of a choice, but it’s fine, just. I never get as far as the dust bunnies, and my obsessive compulsivity drowns in my disorganisation, but I get the main bases covered. [...]
Rant | Intercultural Ireland
I feel like I’m the immigrant mom when collecting junior from school in the afternoons. The corridor where we wait for the little ones is like a United Nations meet and greet, as moms and dads chat in languages as diverse as the little faces that are to come bounding through the door. The Polish [...]
Rant | Waist Size
According to the radio, I am officially overweight, and at risk of developing cancer, unless I do something drastic to change my eating habits. Ok, don’t want that; need to make some serious changes. Porridge in the morning – that’s not bad; salad at lunchtime, nothing too offensive there. Hmmm, maybe I could skip dinner [...]




