Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, The Moodie Tipster is currently self-isolating in Lough Down, a pretty little lake in County Galway.
Events
Bunnahabhain and Duty Zero turn virtual into reality
Last night when I finally brought a long, long day to an end, I poured myself a small glass of the 40yo, cut it with a dash of water, took in the treasure trove of aromas, looked out over my garden through the still dark night and thought everything was good in the world.
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Lifestyle
Mr Happy and Mr Grumpy battle for control in the Lockdown Bureau
“Martin, this will be the first time so many of us have exhibited at a ‘cancelled’ Expo. Now that’s what I call virtual!”
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Miscellaneous
Scaling the mountain and remembering those beginning the ascent
I suppose the fact that this is now June 2020 means that I did scale that mountain. Others I know and care about are just at the foothills, a long and difficult ascent ahead.
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Events
Arise you Freeman of Sweny’s
My mother broke my heart and ruined my career aspirations at an early age when she told me, “Son, with a face like your’s, it has to be radio.”
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Events
Pivoting fast and turning virtual in the Lockdown Bureau
Never before have I been so entranced by the rich colour of my roses, the yellows, whites, pinks and blood reds. Never before have I watched with such wonder the daily routine of the birds taking their daily sustenance from their feeders.
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Miscellaneous
Climbing Mount Difficulty and Piercing through Clouds
The name Aoraki means ‘Piercing through clouds’, a singularly appropriate phrase for what we sought to achieve, in attempting to scale new business heights and break through the dark clouds of COVID-19.
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Airports
How no flights, corona, inaction became lights, camera, action at Vilnius Airport
What movies would you show at your airport during the COVID-19 crisis?Here’s The Moodie Blog’s suggestions.
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Events
Why rice will never turn to gold at The Moodie Davitt Report
Work harder than you have ever worked in your life; don’t believe you have a right to survive – whole sectors have been hit, even eradicated by disrupters and Black Swans and the latter don’t come much blacker than COVID-19.
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Events
Theirs not to reason why, theirs just to do and die
The President of the United States last night gave a televised performance more befitting of the madman Lieutenant Commander Philip Francis Queeg in the 1954 film The Caine Mutiny.
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Events
Zooming in on travel retail and freeing the Furloughed four
Some great wines were ‘shared’ and some great, and often very moving, stories told. Wine – and Zoom – ensured that while we might be isolated, we are not alone.
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Miscellaneous
The end of certainty
It was as if each of them was simply trying to come to terms with the change to the human condition as much as they were trying to navigate the immediate future for their businesses.
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Events
Croissants, crisis and human kindness
I watched, transfixed as a heated argument broke out after one passenger accused another of not using tongs to pick up his chocolate croissant