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The summer of ’26
It was the autumnal equinox a few days ago. For a moment our planet was balanced perfectly, with everyone experience twelve hours of daylight and twelve hours of darkness. Here in the northern hemisphere, the days will get shorter and the nights will get longer until the winter solstice. Summer is…
What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
This is Ian McEwan’s second foray into science fiction after his alternative history novel, Machines Like Me . I enjoyed that book but it was far too eager to show off its worldbuilding—at one point a character practically looks at the camera like Tim in The Office. There’s a bit of that in What We…
Movie mashups
I’ve mentioned the ritual that concludes the week at Clearleft : At the end of every Thursday afternoon at Clearleft , we wrap up the working week with an all-hands (video) meeting. Yes, I know that the week finishes on Friday, but Fridays have been declared the no-meetings day at Clearleft: a…
Salter Cane this Saturday
Looking for something to do in Brighton this weekend? I’ve got ya covered. Come to the excellent Prince Albert pub on Trafalger Street at 8pm on Saturday, September 5th. Head upstairs with your ticket . There you will be treated to an excellent triple bill. First up is Figure In The Half Light AKA…
Mandolino
I try to see my friends Dan and Sue as often as I can. The problem is that I live in Brighton and they live in Baltimore (that’s Baltimore, Maryland not Baltimore, West Cork). We sometimes make it work though. Like crossing the Atlantic together . Dan and Sue were in Italy last week. Their son Rex…
Paddy On The Hardwood by Rus Bradburd
Remember when I wrote about a session I was at in Belfast where I was sitting next to a fiddler who it turned out had written a book and then I ended up reading the book? Quite an unusual occurrence, right? Definitely not the kind of thing that’s likely to happen twice (you can see where this is…
When The Boys Came Out To Play by John Mackel
I went to plenty of great sessions when I was in Belfast . One of the best was during Belfast Tradfest , out at The Hatfield with Bríd Harper , Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh , and Michael Rooney. I ended up sitting next a lovely local fiddler named John. I saw him again the next day when I was at Ulster…
Chíne tréile
When I was immersed in the Irish language for a week in Donegal last month, I made plenty of mistakes. But there’s one mistake that I’m actually quite pleased I made. The emphasis at Oideas Gael is on conversational Irish, so our teacher would often put us into groups of around four people to…
