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Thoughtful Tuesdays: Food For Thought

Thoughtful Tuesday
By Eithne Cullen 'Food For Thought'… there’s a theme to work with. I'm certain at the time of writing we will have plenty of submissions on this theme. Everyone loves food: talking about it, preparing it, eating it and oh, yes, photographing it! The first time I saw someone photographing her food ...

Monday Moments: Food For Thought

Monday Moments, News
Introduced by Holly King Food, glorious food. The first thing that comes to mind from our theme ‘Food For Thought’ is my dad. The poster boy for chewing properly and eating slowly, he is always the last to finish his dinner. But he also seems to enjoy it the most, taking ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Building Bridges

Thoughtful Tuesday
By Eithne Cullen When we discussed the theme of 'Building Bridges' at our weekly meeting, it was obvious it opened up many different ideas for all of us: we thought about relationships, peace and reconciliation. One definition tells us it means to establish a relationship (as to foster understanding and appreciation of ...

Monday Moments: Building Bridges

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Introduced by Holly King This week we’re ‘Building Bridges’ and the first thing I think about bridges (asides from the darn Troll bridge in King’s Quest VII: The Princeless Bride), is resonant frequency. Bear with me here. In my Physics class, we used the example of bridges to explain ‘natural’ or ...

Monday Moments: Different Hats And Different Faces

Monday Moments, News
Introduced by Holly King Welcome back! A new month, a new time, a new opportunity to see where our creativity will take us. I’ve thought a lot about 'Different Hats And Different Faces', realising there are many ways you can take this theme. Initially, it can seem obvious on the surface; ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: What Now?

Thoughtful Tuesday
By Eithne Cullen Our theme this week is 'What Now?' I know that this is the question on everybody’s lips at the moment; we had no idea what  lockdown would look like back in March when it all started. And most of us have a vague feeling that we don’t know ...

Monday Memoirs: What Now?

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Introduced by Holly King What Now reminds me of an exercise my GCSE Drama teacher gave us: find all the ways to express ‘come in’. We went through the obvious ones: cheerful, inquisitive, excited, angry, sad, seductive (well, we were 15); then moved onto a broader range: apprehensive, exhausted, reproachful, worried, apathetic, ...

Thoughtful Tuesdays: Pride

Thoughtful Tuesday
By Eithne Cullen Pride month has become part of our calendar. Every year, during the month of June -  chosen because that is when the Stonewall Riots took place in 1969 - the LGBTQ+ community celebrates Pride in a number of different ways. Various events are held across the world recognising the ...