On a Bright Summer Morning, part two: Meeting Hermione ( Read more... )

On a Bright Summer Morning: Meeting Luna ( Read more... )

This is a very funny short film. Saw it a few years ago at a gathering, finally managed to turn it up online.

It's subbed--I imagine that the humour comes across well enough if you've not got Irish.

Gafa ("Taken") (2006)

http://www.thisisirishfilm.ie/shorts/gafa

Terrible sad to hear the news about the bombings in Boston. So far, everyone I know there seems to be okay. But I worry, as always, about folk whom I might not know would be there ( Read more... )

Yes, I've a cold on me. My throat felt a little funny as I was driving to the funeral on Friday, and I ended up using a goodly amount of Fisherman's Friend to get through the day ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday to madderbrad! Hope it's a grand day!

So, we have a Pope.

Pope Francis I.

I have a good feeling about him.

Well, I think I did see a meteor tonight when I was taking the recycling out to the kerb. I was looking up towards the constellation of the Plough, inspired to use that to find the North Star by cause of reading Robert MacFarlane's The Old WaysIt was a brief streak of light, near what I suppose one might call the handles of the Plough--I can't ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday to rikibeth!

Well, I hope it's been a happy SS. Cyril and Methodius Day and/or Lupercalia and/or that otherSt. Valentine's Day for everyone ( Read more... )