Phew!!! Many thanks for letting me know 🥰

Articulate. Or Cranium. Form favourites here since the kids stopped being children 😁

We saw this during the last boom time for the arts where centres were opened anywhere there was a local Minister who wanted his name on a plaque, but there was not enough funding for upkeep, salaries, commissioning, production to keep all of them alive.

Charity can work for once-off infrastructure, but you’re right it’s no replacement for SYSTEMIC funding. TS funded a successful pilot prog for families with pre-school/early ed children with special needs but it hasn’t won Govt support, so the year it doesn’t get Toy Show funding, it could be gone.

“I was so upset that I cried
all the way to the chip shop”
is one of my favourite song lines ever.

Not without their issues, but Jarveys in Killarney fit their horses with dung catchers (known colloquially as horse nappies). So fouling could be regulated away… www.killarneytoday.com/council-offi...

Yep - that is not enough for the night that’s in it.

Oh yes! The sneaky tilting paving stones of Dublin - hiding in plain sight and then dousing your feet with the off-run of the city :0

I worked in show biz and events, so I’m probably not as horrified by this as others might be, but I would be asking Why? How much? Cos that’s a premium ask, baby! And it better be for something worthwhile!

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I’m WFH today, and the wind and rain outside even SOUND cold, and I was just sending out some caring thoughts to all those commuting today when I saw your message. Wishing you timely buses, puddle-free paths, a strong umbrella/functioning hoodand good coffee.

I’ve had so many “last chance” emails from one particular company, that I’d assumed we were out the other end of the month that Black Friday has become!

To be fair to you, they start yelling about it so far in advance that it’s easy to get confused about the exact date.

I was just envying the side salad and thinking the same thing about cucumbers!

Definitely a hint of ‘h’, kinda forhid.