‘There’s an awful lot of beige,’ whispered my husband as we watched fellow passengers embark for our 12 day Rhine cruise. .........more

She’s in love with Jamie’s cheeky chapattis,
he adores Nigella’s chocolate mousse; .........more

The woman squinting through the narrow crack of Broom Cottage b & b's front door does not immediately strike us as the embodiment of Irish hospitality. .........more

He’s swept along through the shipyard gates
in a tight shoal of welders, platers, caulkers
and boilermen to wash up, Jonah-like, .........more

Post- Olympics they’ve gone crazy in our sleepy little village
there’s not been this much action since the Vikings came to pillage; .........more

In the warp and weft of her memory’s map,
fault-lines frayed through life’s unfolding, .........more