Fly Away Home is the online base of Helen Day, who collects, curates and minds hundreds of old Ladybird books. They might be fairy tales, Peter and Jane, history, wildlife, How Stuff Works (or at least How Stuff Used To Work)

If you’re wondering where the really nice weather went, I may have something to do with it. I put away the Big Coat. Into the attic. A direct two fingers to the gods

The J1 visa is infamous for enabling Irish 21-year-olds to shortcut the American dream and get great jobs. Seriously, a friend of a friend came back from a J1 having got a job managing an airfield. His qualification? Being a cousin of someone

Re-turn, the operator of Ireland’s Deposit Return Scheme, is celebrating a major milestone: one billion drinks containers returned by the Irish public. That’s enough bottles and cans to circle the globe 4.7 times.

I thought of Battlestar Galactica while at sundry mid-Cork St Patrick’s Day parades. To be clear, it wasn’t the first thing I thought of. The first was yet another pang of realisation about time passing

I’d like to think that if the world were flipped and fantasy fiction originated in the central Asian deserts of Taklamakan or the Silk Road caravanserai like Bukhara, that the bad guys would be all be called Gary and Phil and Paula

You’ll never forget your daddy dangling you from the back of the sofa

"I think of my own hobbies and it’s a question that it’s worth asking ourselves, especially (but not only) if you work in the self-employed-y, create-y, bullsh*t-y space."

We are always going on about the theme tune to Glenroe triggering PTSD about homework, but what about the TV shows no one else remembers?

Heckling is like someone putting in a claim for fake whiplash. They are taking money away from the group.