THE sound of the water gently lapping at the shore greets us as we arrive in Inveraray. The blue sky, dotted with fluffy white clouds, is reflecting off Loch Fyne and into our eyes, momentarily blinding us as we stretch our legs.
THE sound of the water gently lapping at the shore greets us as we arrive in Inveraray. The blue sky, dotted with fluffy white clouds, is reflecting off Loch Fyne and into our eyes, momentarily blinding us as we stretch our legs.
"I'M just waiting here for the boy down the road to come to fix ma telly."
I REMEMBER it with painful clarity, my first suit-buying experience.
WHAT’S your most loathed household task? There’s so much to choose from but from a straw poll of friends over the years, ironing seems to win this dubious honour. Of course there’s so many more possible choices of things we have to do but hate doing. Washing the dishes, putting them away, hoovering, sweeping and mopping the floor, giving your kids a lift, picking them back up afterwards, cutting the grass, emptying the bins. Our life is full of what we consider menial tasks, to be endured as necessary evils.
EDINBURGH airport is facing a mounting chorus of angry protest over its “shambolic and flawed” plans for new flight paths to enable expansion.
LAST Wednesday, the European Parliament overwhelmingly backed a resolution in response to the UK’s notification of its intention to leave the EU. This resolution – which has the support of four of the leading political groups and more than 500 members of the European Parliament – sets out the general principles, objectives and ‘red lines’ which the Parliament believes must be respected during the negotiations that lie ahead.
THE tour guide at Donegal Castle, a 15th-century ruin that played a significant role in the history of Ulster, reels off a Gatling-gun of goodbyes as he ushers me and my family outside: “Aye, that’ll do the job, no bother, hey. Great stuff. I’ll get the door for this wee woman here, now. Great stuff, hey. No bother at all, hey. Good man, now. No bother, cheerio.” This is hospitality Irish-style.
THE huge steel cranes rise out of the shoreline as we approach Greenock. Metal monoliths that speak of a bygone era of shipbuilding and heavy industry.
