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Jarndyce v Enough

April 11, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

‘The dolphins may save us’ said the farmer, the wind farmer, the former wind farmer with whom I shared a bizarre sighting of three mallard. We sometimes walk the same park path, shuffling past one another, maintaining an exaggerated social spacing as befits the age.

Hail on my car this morning.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: charles dickens, dublin array, fintan o'toole, irish times, national childrens hospital, recycling

Paint: One Thought Leads To Another

January 23, 2021 by Simon Robinson 1 Comment

It’s been time to paint the inside of the house. Linear measures, height by breadth give the area and from that you need to estimate the volume of paint. The realities of inexperience regarding surface absorption rates kicks in. One litre covered four square metres of a garden shed last year. One litre of varnish did two coats of a bench. One litre of undercoat will cover fifteen square metres inside the house.

How much paint should we buy?
Noticed on a walk across the South Downs in 2010.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: epa.ie, paintback, recycling

Laden Bin

July 23, 2020 by Simon Robinson 1 Comment

I know there are people out there who think that calling something a ‘first world’ problem is elitist. The real ethical dilemmas are often the reverse of the correction. Does a quota system that manages for inequality discriminate against those that formerly had the upper hand? Does labelling for first or third reinforce the stereotypes? Probably but what other language do we have?

Another Strange Gift – from my 2017 blog post Loops
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: consensus, Covid-19, dalkey, forty coats, inequality, irish times, recycling, tragedy

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