I have been thinking recently about to choose a charity to support. I'd like your opinions the issue. It's not at all straight forward. Simply giving to a charity that happens to spend lots of money on advertising itself or on fund-raising seems to me to be a bad decision. The alternative - making an informed decision - is surely better, but is ( Read more... )

Some reading groups/book clubs get discounts from retailers. Books have very high markups so there's plenty of room for special offers ( Read more... )

OK, I'm looking for people to play pool with on Friday evening. I'll get to that place in the same building as CineWorld (on Parnell St) at 17:00 and I'll stay until my interest in food overcomes my interest in pool, which will probably be around 18:30. I don't mind if no-one else shows up; I did some practice with a table to myself last week and ( Read more... )

Guilt What is yours? Explain yourself Culinary: Tortilla chips
The only flaw in my almost perfect attitude to diet is an insatiable hunger for crunchiness. Poppadums are great too.
Literary: David and Leigh Eddings The important thing is that although I bought some of their more recent books I read very little of them - they're shockingly bad. ( Read more... )

I'm just too busy to post much these days.

I was talking to some people at the party at the weekend. These people have LJs. One of them commented that I hadn't posted for weeks; I replied that my posts were Friends-locked and that I'd add him/her to my Friends list.

Identify yourself! If you remember and I'm not misremembering.

As I waited for the bus, I sat by the river that runs through Glendalough, and wished for a moment that there were no humans around. Spending a weekend almost entirely alone is in some ways a wonderful luxury, and I find that the tranquility of parts of the area is lessened by the vast herds of families that graze in the lower, flatter parts of the ( Read more... )

So, anyone doing anything interesting today?

I'm going to state the obvious, twice. And secondly, God damn that is some fine summery weather we're having. It's like the boys and girls down in Weather Control woke up to the fact that June is part of summer* and decided to make up for May. Last weekend I'd foolishly remained in Dublin. No such mistake this time; on Saturday morning I got the ( Read more... )

My sister's a journalist*. She's looking for material for an article ( Read more... )