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trustwordie talks about love and Valentine's Day on radio
I'm a regular listener to Ciara Kelly's Lunchtime Live radio show on Newstalk. Every so often, the show goes "unscripted" which means the listeners make suggestions about what they want on the show and then come on as the guests. It's talk radio as we do it in Ireland. In my tweet, I asked: Do people still send anonymous valentine cards or declare their feelings to people they fancy? Or has it just become a commercial couple thing? Anyway, here a 5-minute clip of me talking all about love and Valentine's Day and how I think it has moved away from...
Whether you love or hate Valentine's Day, you have to send a card
Valentine's Day is a bit like the Irish language for the Irish, we love to hate it yet every single one of us would secretly love to speak it fluently. We can hate Valentine's Day and all it stands for but few of us would turn away a bouquet of flowers or a handwritten letter from an admirer. Anyway, love it or hate it but woe betide anyone in a relationship who'd risk ignoring the day. Luckily for you, I've come up with a range of cynical, sarcastic and somewhat romantic Valentine cards for every class of relationship. We have the following cards for the following...
Time Folks Please.... only New Year Greetings now
It's too late to buy my lovely Christmas cards because they won't get to you in enough time for you to send them on to anyone else. The good new is you have a grace period of a couple of weeks to send Happy New Year cards.
A name like Joy is handy for Christmas puns
Very pleased with my nearly full page write up in the Wexford People – our local newspaper – all about our range of Christmas and New Year cards and about the origins of trustwordie. I've included a photo of the article but have included the text too to make it easier to read. Joy bringing joy to the world with her Christmas cardsA county Wexford company has launched a range of Christmas and New Year cards for every type of personality among friends and family from the Christmas curmudgeon and the cheapskate to the bah humbug and the new year's irresolute.Gorey woman Joy...
No more New Year's Resolutions, that's a promise
I designed this card in recognition of how I bore myself making the same resolutions every year that I never keep. After a week, no a month, of overindulgence and inactivity we put ourselves under enormous pressure to change ourselves — to upgrade into a healthier, smarter and more successful prototype. To hell with New Year's resolutions, I'm done. What about all those resolutions I made and kept throughout the year? What about: the new skills I picked up this year from that course I started/finished the hours I spent reacquainting myself with a language I learned twenty years ago this small company I started the volunteering I did on those committees the marathon...