Archive for August, 2005

Dublin to Poland by bus

Sunday, August 14th, 2005

Saturday’s Irish Times (paid subscription required) featured the new daily Bus Éireann route from Dublin to Warsaw.
The launch of the service reflects the exponential growth of the Polish community in Ireland. Irish Times columnist Carl O’Brien made the journey to Warsaw and spoke to many of the mainly young highly educated Polish migrants on the [...]

Invisible Crust

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

It’s not April Fool’s Day so it must be true. Sky News reports that Hovis have launched bread without crusts! They have given this innovation the rather Ronseal-esque title of Hovis Invisble Crust.
Apparently it has taken all their 125 years baking experience and 2 years of development to make this breakthrough. The alleged 35% of [...]

Make and Do for Grown-ups

Sunday, August 7th, 2005

There must be huge money in card making and scrapbooking. Many are more than happy to spend significant sums on stamping kits, creative scissors, fancy papers and glitter to help them create fancy handmade cards or keepsake albums of photographs and memories.
I first became aware of this through my Mum watching the surreal yet strangely [...]