Revolutionary new air travel experiment

Ryanair defends use of “sky oars” in new sub-economy Galley Class Ryanair has robustly defended the introduction of ‘sky oars’ in their new sub-economy class. Each oar is operated by a row of three passengers and the designer, Patrick from Marketing, thinks they could help propel the aircraft. Stripped to the waist and heavily manacled, [...]

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Graffiti in sign language with braille

Fellow blogger, Richard Littledale, yesterday wrote a blog entitled Hoist with a Digital Petard which included this photograph of the creative graffiti. Like Richard, I would love to know what it says. Any French sign language interpreters out there? Or perhaps, like so much graffiti, we don’t want to know what it says. More importantly [...]

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Getting away from it all on the North Coast

Beautiful, eh? Yes, the North Coast of N. Ireland can be just beautiful. We got the chance of a few days in the Portrush apartment of some family members and were blessed with beautiful bright dry weather – not to be taken for granted in this part of the world. But getting away from work..? [...]

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On Easter Monday I emigrated to America

Well, not quite, but we did visit the Ulster American Folk Park near Omagh in N. Ireland.It’s a great day out as you can see from the website blurb below… Immerse yourself in the world famous story of Irish emigration at the museum that brings it to life. Follow the emigrant trail as you journey [...]

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The Stranmillis Elephant… or is it?

Thank you to friend and Baptist pastor David McMillan for drawing my attention to the latest in public art in Belfast. Is it an elephant? What do you think? You can follow David’s analysis here.

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