There’s nothing luxury here but the young patients inside are about to receive, or have already received, a gift more priceless than any shopping emporium can offer. A smile.
Quirky
Assessing the great Olivetti vs ChatGPT showdown
Ah, even saying the word ‘Olivetti’ out loud fills me with affection and nostalgia. I learned my craft on it. I didn’t need ChatGPT then just as I have never felt the need for an automatic garage door.
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Miscellaneous
A welcome return to beautiful kitsch in Macau
Artificial canals replete with gondolas and a false Venetian sky might not be to everyone’s taste but there is no doubting the allure for countless Chinese consumers, many of whom have never experienced the real thing in Italy.
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Quirky
Celebrating 20 years as The Muffy Report is born for a day
Matilda’s name (and I’m not making this up) was taken from Australia’s beloved folk song ‘Waltzing Matilda’, a result of her penchant for stepping waltz-like from side to side.
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Food
Local flavour, world-class experience – a snapshot of South Africa at Durbanville Hills
What we’ve discovered in the past few days is the sheer diversity, wealth and quality of South African cuisine, alongside magnificent hospitality.
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Lifestyle
A world turned upside down
With my recent luck, if I avoid COVID, I’ll get sunstroke instead.
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Miscellaneous
Mounting a challenge at Mount Juliet
“It’s not how, it’s how many.” With that well-worn golf phrase and a wry smile did Paraguayan pro Fabrizio Zanotti try to temper my disaffection with another ropey golf shot at the Horizon Irish Open Pro Am at Mount Juliet, County Kilkenny on Wednesday. There I was a guest of Executive Vice Chairman and CEO
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Travel
Feeling the high-octane energy in Ho Chi Minh City
The country may have been through two brutally tough years but as with newly established IPP Air Cargo it’s almost take-off time following the lifting of travel restrictions.
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Miscellaneous
Of long beaches, dense forests and topical tropical nonsense
I suspect that another beautiful island off a nation’s south coast could so with such an economic stimulus. Offshore duty free in Tasmania anyone?
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Lifestyle
The greening of Twickenham
I can think of no better way to kick off the week in which Irish people around the world celebrate St. Patrick’s Day (17 March) than with a stirring rugby victory over England in Twickenham. Being there in person on a lovely spring afternoon on Saturday made the moment all the more special. Along with
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Miscellaneous
From pea soup fog to the bleakest darkness
We must not forget the critical point that, whether you agree with the approach or not, the government here is trying to preserve the health and lives of its people
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Travel
Only three more sleeps until Christmas
Who would have possibly believed back then that most of the photos of people working in the travel retail community less than two years later would show them in masks?
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Quirky
Twinkle Twinkle Little Earth – a timely tune from Sestus Omicron 3
“The closing four pages are so cataclysmic and catastrophic as anything I’ve ever done—the harmony bites like nitric acid – the counterpoint grinds like the mills of God.”