Monthly Archives: May 2012

Ireland: the land that forgot breastfeeding

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Adrienne

TIME magazine recently cashed in on a current, strained Western attitude to breastfeeding. They published a beautiful, quirky breastfeeding photograph on their cover and gave it what I would call a contentious caption. It brought enormous mainstream media attention to … Continue reading →

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Josie’s penguins

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Adrienne

  Two plastic sand-filled penguins live outside the front door of my home house. They’ve been there since about the nineteen-sixties, part of my grandmother’s proud front garden. Some time in the seventies, my uncle-in-law Tommy hid one of them … Continue reading →

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Is the kettle on the range boiled?

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Adrienne

It was once remarked that the most repeated phrase in my home house at Carrantanlass, Tuam, Co Galway, was probably “is the kettle on the range boiled?” In a house where everyone grazes, the kettle is used a lot. Or … Continue reading →

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