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Why handwritten recipe notes matter

2026-08-22 · English · Swords, Ireland

The Best Family Recipes Are Written in the Margins I was making a vegetable soup last weekend and found myself ignoring the recipe almost completely. The useful information was not in the neat printed instructions. It was in the pencil marks around the edge:...

Apps Should Ask For Less Personal Data

2026-08-22 · English · Swords, Ireland

If a service only needs to tell me whether the bus is late, it probably does not need my date of birth, contacts, location history and first pet’s name as well.

Sunday morning question: when you have an hour to yourself, what are you most likely to c...

2026-08-19 · English · Swords, Ireland

Sunday morning question: when you have an hour to yourself, what are you most likely to choose?

Why reliable connections matter more than maps

2026-08-10 · English · Swords, Ireland

The latest transport map doing the rounds looks tidy, but coloured lines are not the same as reliable connections. For people in Fingal, the useful questions are simpler: how often, how late, is it accessible, and what happens when one service is delayed? Fai...

Northern Ireland athletes at Glasgow 2026

2026-08-03 · English · Swords, Ireland

Why Nearby Sporting Events Matter Beyond the Medal Table The Northern Ireland team heading to the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow is a useful reminder that international sport can feel quite close to home. Glasgow is not a distant television-only setting f...

What does an allotment teach about systems

2026-07-28 · English · Swords, Ireland

The Allotment Is Teaching Me to Notice Small Systems I went to the allotment expecting the main challenge to be keeping plants alive. That is certainly part of it, especially where tomatoes are concerned, but it is not the whole story. The more useful lesson...