Simplicity

Posted on 20 July, 202020 July, 2020 by David Meredith

The guitar practice continues. I have a short list of songs I like to play which improve my fingerpicking fluency. And then there's a shorter list of songs with very specific fingerpicking patterns that I'm learning to play both because...Read More

Headlong

Posted on 21 June, 202022 June, 2020 by David Meredith

In the last few posts I've indicated a disquiet about the 're-opening' process that has been going on. Just to reiterate, although I'd rather not get infected by the coronavirus that is still out there, lurking, my disquiet is not...Read More

Tinkering

Posted on 24 May, 202025 May, 2020 by David Meredith

As traffic and activity increase, I am beginning to appreciate how much I have enjoyed the quiet and the change of pace that the lock-down brought. It was lovely to go out on foot or on my bike early in...Read More

Light::Life

Posted on 13 April, 202028 January, 2023 by David Meredith

https://vimeo.com/406496952 By and large the weather has been fantastic. Until I had a small domestic accident on Saturday, I had been taking advantage of my tendency to wake early by going for lovely morning walks. Setting off at about 6.15,...Read More

Locked Down

Posted on 6 April, 20206 April, 2020 by David Meredith

As the coronavirus pandemic rages throughout the world, we've been told to stay at home, and only go out for necessities, to support vulnerable people or to exercise within a 2k radius from home. The point is to break the...Read More

International Women’s Day

Posted on 8 March, 202028 January, 2023 by David Meredith

Happy International Women's Day. It's been big in our house. Christine held a coffee morning yesterday. She had baked a variety of her customary luscious and interesting cakes and biscuits. It was in aid of Merchant's Quay Ireland and she...Read More

A Strange Week

Posted on 25 January, 202025 January, 2020 by David Meredith

First, a postscript to my last post. The labelling of my marmalade jars! It's been an odd week. I've struggled to stave off or at least not to succumb to a cold. I thought I had it under control on...Read More

It’s 2020

Posted on 1 January, 20201 January, 2020 by David Meredith

In a few short weeks I'll be 60. 60! I don't mind and I don't feel nearly 60. I feel about 38 on a good day. On a bad one, maybe 55. Anyway, it's only a number. I have plenty...Read More

The Christmas

Posted on 22 December, 201922 December, 2019 by David Meredith

Short post today. I'm experiencing that end of term wiped out feeling. But I have been kind of busy doing arty stuff when I could. I'm not the only one. Christine has been a hive of creativity making countless beautiful...Read More

Holliers

Posted on 13 August, 20199 October, 2019 by David Meredith

I've been on me holliers with Christine. We flew to Vienna, spent a couple of days there, then cycled from Vienna to Budapest, via Bratislava, and had a few days extra in Budapest. We cycled 350k. The cycle generally followed...Read More

Ikebana

Posted on 28 July, 20199 October, 2019 by David Meredith

Christine bought me a book on wabi-sabi, a Japanese concept concerning finding beauty in imperfect, old, repaired or broken things. There's a lot more to the concept but that's it in shorthand. In an early chapter, there was mention of...Read More

It’s Not All About Me

Posted on 13 April, 201913 April, 2019 by David Meredith

Christine has been exercising her creative muscles too. This isn't a new thing. For some time, she's been a member of Rathmines Writers' Group, the poetry bit. She's been writing poems and subjecting them to the critical assessment of the...Read More