Dunguaire Castle
Imagine my delight when, on a coach tour through the rainy Irish countryside outside of the city of Galway in August 2019, what looked like a striking and majestic medieval…
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14 January 2021
Galway City
The bus journey from the banks of the River Liffey in Dublin to Galway was an uneventful three hours on the motorway. Travelling from Dublin on the East Coast of…
19 December 2020
What does a South African lawyer know about the GDPR?
People often wonder how a South African lawyer can know anything about European data protection law in the form of the GDPR having spent eight years practising law at the…
4 December 2019
Coffee shops to work from in Cape Town
I spend a lot of time working from coffee shops. There’s something about the hubbub of conversations that have nothing to do you with you that just makes me more…
30 August 2016
Every Battle, Every Score
I got to sing and act in a short musical film by the talented filmmaker Stephen Phillipson. It's a medieval musical comedy about two warriors trying to decide who has saved…
8 October 2015
Extracts from ‘Vocal Velocity’
I've been doing singing lessons since about May this year. I've sung on stage before (once in a musical in high school and again in a few duets with a…
12 September 2015
Markdown makes me happy
I’m a lawyer and I write for a living. I used to write everything in Microsoft Word and it made me bleak. Don't get me wrong - Word is great…
29 April 2015
Workout rundown – April 2015
I have once again hit a plateau with my personal exercise routine, which means that its time to take stock of what I've been doing and come up with a…
26 April 2015
Reading Well
Reading is easy. It's something you learn early on at school and then use for the rest of your life. But, most of the time -- we don't read well.…
3 February 2015
The Seven Skills of Improv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUO-pWJ0riQ Improv isn't just a way of making theatre - it's a way of life. Here's a summary of an entertaining TED Talk by improviser and storyteller Dave Morris. The…
12 May 2014