Articles by Mags Treanor
One More Thing, Then I’ll Be Happy!
Years ago, back in the days of green pound notes and proper recessions, a friend of mine managed to make her mother’s worst nightmare come true: she got pregnant while still at college. Of course, it wasn’t really a nightmare at all. Both parents were in love, they got married and the new baby, now [...]
happy, humour, satisfaction
The Danger of Eavesdropping
Years ago, I was given the good advice that one should never get into conversation with the person sitting beside you on a bus, train or plane. Naturally I paid no heed I and had to learn the hard way, discovering that even the most fascinating piece of small talk is only good for ten [...]
eavesdropping, humour
The Book Club Bash
The Book Club Bash I’ve promised myself never to join a book club. Never again, that is. Now this may seem odd coming from a person with an obsession for reading. Thing is though, I’ve discovered that book clubs are not really about reading books, are they? My first book club was on foot of [...]
St. Valentines – The Saint, the Over-Priced Flowers and Love
There has always been some confusion about St Valentine. The bottom line is that there seem to be a plethora of saints and martyrs all who were called Valentine and nobody can decide just which one of them it was that we can all hold responsible for having the world go crazy buying flowers, chocolates, [...]
funny, valentines
Telling the Story
When you hear the word ‘storytelling’ it might conjure up the image of an old woman in a shawl sitting at the fireside of a thatched cottage reminiscing that ‘our likes will never be seen again.’ Nothing could be more untrue, with 2010 emerging as the year of the story telling revival. Story telling nights [...]
storytelling
