10 January 2010 | mná/women, sláinte/ health | enormous
Photo right owned by MarianF55 (cc) On a recent visit to the Coombe Women’s Hospital for an antenatal appointment with my midwife she shared some great news with me. We were chatting about this and that and she told me that she had done her training on the Domino Scheme in the National Maternity Hospital in [...]
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09 January 2010 | bia/ food, clann/ family, cócaireacht/cooking | enormous
My eldest brother emailed us all at 3am this morning to tell he had tried standing outside in minus 10.1C without a coat. my mother responded by sending this recipe for French Peasant Soup. I had already begun making Tana Ramsey’s Beetroot Soup so I’ll do this during the week. I substituted potato for the [...]
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08 January 2010 | mná/women, motherhood | enormous
Photo owned by H.C. Williams (cc) My attention was of course arrested by the cover of last week’s Economist with the iconic shot of Rosie the Riveter proclaiming that We Did It! The basic gist of the three articles in The Economist is that the number of women in the workforce now equals the number [...]
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02 January 2010 | beo | enormous
This is the article I wrote for the January edition of the Irish online magazine Beo! all about the newly arrived Foursquare. I go on to discuss the business opportunities Foursquare and other social sites offer the canny business person. I also reveal that I asked the Foursquare team to create a Fainne badge for [...]
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