NOBODY does an eye roll like Stephanie. Like last week. On a lovely morning, the cherry trees outside dappled with sunshine, she’s at her desk talking to a client who should be in a room with me discussing her career, but who, we gather by eavesdropping on Steph’s conversation, is in fact at our old premises in Northumberland Rd.

I MAY be the only homeowner in Ireland who doesn’t have custody of their own garden.

IT’S a curious paradox that, at a time when we have a robust regulatory authority devoted to the protection of data, and therefore, by inference, devoted to the protection of privacy, we have so many people so resolutely determined to sacrifice their own privacy, no matter what it may cost them in the long term.

YOU don’t want to get caught in the crosshairs of technology and gossip.

WITH Julian Assange avoiding arrest in an embassy and Edward Snowden avoiding arrest in an airport, both in trouble for effecting voluminous leaks of secret data, the Russian security guys have decided it’s time to go back to the future.

NOT to be outdone by the new mother-in-law, one of them is teaching herself how to cook.

IT was all action on Saturday afternoon in Dublin.

FRIED ice cream.

DECLAN Ganley feels that he’s publicly misrepresented.

AROUND the time my secretary threw my marijuana plant out the window was the period when I was expert on the Seanad.