I loved Dublin. It’s the city of my birth, where my wife and I fell in love, and where we became parents. I spent four great years there from 1999-2003 and it broke my heart to leave. But I had to face the fact that I am a culchie. Like the salmon swimming back upstream […]
Category: Not-Quite Whiskey Reviews
Reviews which aren’t.
The end of the beginning
It’s hard to say if 2017 was what you would call a great year. It was certainly one of changes – we settled into our new home (my old home) and learned to adapt to terrible broadband (PS4 games take a week to download), rubbish windows (we all wear parkas indoors) and beautiful scenery (it […]
Any port in a storm
Hueston Station rn, no trains just overpriced scones and disappointment pic.twitter.com/KYJes7iEjl — Bill Linnane (@Bill_Linnane) October 16, 2017 We got to Heuston Station as the last train pulled out. It was only going as far as Portlaoise, so even if we had made it, we would still have had quite a walk back to Cork. […]
Burning in water, drowning in flame
I almost drowned when I was eight. It was at Inchydoney beach, near where my dad is from; I was in the water, close to the shore. I took a step back and fell into a channel and disappeared under the water. I can still remember it – the blue haze of the water down […]
Chaos Theory
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. ALDOUS HUXLEY, Do What You Will When Kurt Ballou was in his early teens, his parents brought him across America in a camper van for the summer holidays. With no siblings to keep him company, music became his friend. […]
