by Thomas Bartlett | Nov 25, 2015 | #ABP, #humour, #writing, Ireland, life, meloncholy, reading, war
Modern Life 3 – Everything is Amazing! No it isn’t. Neither is everything terrible. Warning: Hectoring and contradictory (like modern life). The human propensity to believe they are all something unique, living in an age of unprecedented x, y, z remains as strong as...
by Thomas Bartlett | Nov 3, 2015 | #ABP, #driving, #humour, #traffic, #writing, blog
Dublin Traffic. 3 Wrongs Don’t Make a Right. No facts have been consulted in the writing of this rant. Cyclists I’m a cyclist. And I say to my fellow cyclists, get off the footpaths. Seriously get off them. Don’t cycle on them. And sexist as this...
by Thomas Bartlett | Oct 9, 2015 | #writing, blog, guilt, life, meloncholy, modernlife, reading |
Modern Life 2: Where has Everybody Gone? I’m at the age now when I like it when people call me young. I’ve done a few different jobs, lived in a few countries, and despite never being exactly overly friendly I have known a lot of people. But I never see...
by Thomas Bartlett | Sep 23, 2015 | #writing, ABP, blog, Connemara, food, life
Dillisk: A Seaside Food Project A couple of Saturdays ago I went to Dillisk in Aughrusbeg, Connemara, Co Galway. Dillisk is a seaside food project. It’s different. Dillisk uses land, sea and shore locally sourced ingredients and is the brain child of Katie and...
by Thomas Bartlett | Sep 1, 2015 | blog, guilt, meloncholy, modernlife |
Modern Life 1: What the Hell do we Want? Happiness? Ha! The familiar knot in the spine, knitted by the shoulder blades, pulled taught everyday by our missed calls and rampant thoughts. Nothing notifications and the relentless liking of everything wearying us and...