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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]