Happy The Man Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself, uponContinue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #332 – Poems in August #4”
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A Doctor’s Sword
Susan & I went to the multiplex cinema in Bantry last night to see the documentary film “A Doctor’s Sword”. The late Pete McCarthy wrote that, “you should never pass a bar with your name on it” and his travelog “McCarthy’s Bar” features a (photoshopped) photograph of MacCarthy’s bar in Castletownbere on the Beara peninsula.Continue reading “A Doctor’s Sword”
The Monday Morning Quote #331 – Poems in August #3
The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim,Continue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #331 – Poems in August #3”
The Monday Morning Quote #330 – Poems in August #2
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not goContinue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #330 – Poems in August #2”
Hard Work….
From the Urban Tap House, Cardiff
Monday 13th July 2015 – Cardiff and a very happy day.
When I passed my finals in 1978 my father sent me a note which read, “Alun, Congratulations. It was your day but you made it ours as well. We will celebrate when we meet. Dad.” 37 years on, I have written a similar note to our son but can also share my good wishes inContinue reading “Monday 13th July 2015 – Cardiff and a very happy day.”
The Monday Morning Quote #326
“There has never been a day when I have not been proud of you, I said to my son, though some days I’m louder about other stuff so it’s easy to miss that.” From StoryPeople
B.B. KIng – RIP
Shame to lose such a great man, he lived on a bus for large amounts of his working life, made many farewell tours and was still playing more than 100 nights a year in his late 80s. What differentiated him was his ability to make his music swing when he played – with a lotContinue reading “B.B. KIng – RIP”
The Monday Morning Quote #316
Written by Martin Wolf via John Naughton.
BDS (Cardiff) found to be invalid – you really couldn’t make this up.
In what I presumed to be a delayed April 1st posting UK Dental News & GDPUK have released the following story. In a media release dated 10 April 2015, the General Dental Council announced that all BDS degrees awarded by Cardiff University since 2010 are invalid and announced the measures it will be taking asContinue reading “BDS (Cardiff) found to be invalid – you really couldn’t make this up.”
The Incisal Edge 