Code Read

The title sums up my absence from the blogosphere in the past four months. I’m changing career and have enrolled in a course which will lead to (hopefully) opportunities to become a full stack web developer, something which I’ve been really enjoying in recent months. My spare time outside of creating buggy websites and novelty […]

Shelf-Help, OMAD, Cauliflower Wings and Colombia

I’VE BEEN A VEGETARIAN for the past seven months. It’s something I flirted with before but it stuck this time because I decided if I was going to do it, I was going to do it right. I’d start eating healthy and nutritious food.

Spanglish – An Eejit Abroad

IT’S VERY EASY to stay within your comfort zone in foreign countries. Especially when you can speak enough of the language to get around. I’m half way through my Colombia adventure, a third trip in two years. My first time on these shores was a backpacking trip through Central and South America. I fell in love with […]

Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Love in the Time of Cholera (Book Review)

Opening Line: It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. Synopsis: Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentina Ariza‘s impassioned advances and married Dr. Juvenal Urbino instead. During that half-centrury, Florentino has fallen into the arms of […]

Inverting Winter and Future Projects

I HAD NO intention of spending Winter back in cold, wet and dreary Ireland so have moved back to Colombia this week. Medellin again for at least another three months. I only came back from the city to Ireland last month for Godfather duties and the small matter of the Rugby World Cup but was […]