I’M trudging.

THE taxi-driver’s fury is obvious but he restrains himself admirably. He just clicks his tongue and furiously taps at the taxi-driver-touch-screen-thing on his dashboard. It happens again half a mile later and the latest infringement ellicits nothing more than a barely audible tail-end “...ck’s sake”.

I MUST begin with an apology; an apology to Kilkenny City Library to be precise.

Bank Holiday Mondays: Normally a day when we commemorate all that the banks have done for the country, by staying out of work. The June Bank Holiday is different.

THE word ‘GIF’ (or graphics interchange format) and the name ‘Steve Wilhite’ mean nothing to most people. The first is an internet acronym, the second the man who coined the term, 23 years ago.

SUCCESSION: it can be a positive word; a mixture of succeed and session.

I RECEIVED a couple of reminders of mortality this week. The first was a freakish separation of my bicycle from its handlebars and the separation of me from the bike.

THE one-way ticket is a powerful motif.

THIS is my first column.