I’m known to happily meet anyone for a coffee, anytime, anywhere because you never know where it might lead and if I am to live up to my strap-line, ‘How can I help?’ then I must make every attempt if someone asks for a meeting. That said, there are only so many hours in the…
Here in Ireland, a hoover means vacuum cleaner, Ballygowan means any bottled water at all and a JCB is a digger! Sort of doesn’t matter (except to the brand owners) whether the hoover is a Dyson or an actual Hoover product (does Hoover even make hoovers any more?) , or whether the Ballygowan is from…
Three things came together this week that suggested the topic for this week’s “Coffee with Colm”. Firstly, last weekend my youngest child, #dd#2 Jenna, had a solo-part in the annual musical show put forth by Spotlight Stage School in Limerick. Spotlight has been on the go for thirty years and has been overseen through those…
A song I learned many years ago when I first started playing guitar was “Flowers Are Red” by Harry Chapin – about a little boy on his first day of school and his interactions with his teacher. Many people know it by it’s resounding chorus, the lyrics of which go: And she said Flowers are…
Bumblebees Can’t Fly – and yet they do! Actually that phrase is scientifically incorrect however, being short and stubby, the bumblebee doesn’t look very flight-worthy and in the 1930s, French entomologist August Magnan noted that the insect’s flight is actually impossible, a notion that has stuck in popular consciousness since then. But clearly it’s not…
I am known to say I love business but I hate work but as you can’t have one without the other, the question is when do I get to switch off; when do you get to switch off? And how? I thought it appropriate to mark this Bank Holiday weekend by posing the question to…