Seamus was a substitute teacher who taught our class in the last year of primary school. We kind of called him Seamus behind his back because he lived just down the road from us, and that’s what the parents called him. I remember we’d been doing some lessons about the dangers of smoking. It was [...]
It seems the lost art of Halloween bonfire building is actually lost. Aside from officially sanctioned bonfires and fireworks displays, there are very few ad-hoc bonfires being built in neighbourhoods. So today I’m going to play old-timer and recount for you how we built bonfires back in the day. When I was a child, there [...]
I discovered a terrific thread on Ask Metafilter that asks “What does it take to be a Dad?” For me, my father spent a lot of time working to make ends meet, but from the hazy childhood memories I do have, we did spend quite a bit of time together. Having said that, during my [...]
