Working-out with a hoola-hoopSure to put a smile on your face.
McEvoy's farm shopWe found the most delicious smoked back rashers in this butcher's shop in Termonfeckin, Co Louth, as well as three chickens for €10.
Miniature gladioliOne sprig in the right vase, delicate and quite beautiful.
Cocktail dressesPure escapist glamour and so much more flattering than floor-length gowns.
UkulelesPerhaps sales will take off after the Ukulele Hooley in Meeting House Square this weekend. What next, kazoos?
Dorothy PerkinsHaving a moment with the new rock-chic-inspired DP Collection.
Being sent home from the GaeltachtNo refund for parents makes an even testier homecoming.
Tamiflu in the medicine cabinetThe stock-piling has started.
Tarantino talkWatercooler sages all have an opinion about Inglourious Basterds.
Exchange studentsRarely even remotely compatible with your offspring, so guess who entertains them? The mammies, of course.
El NinoIncreased extremes of hot and cold predicted for 2010.
Blue 13The new strain of aggressive potato blight.
Trinity's horse chestnut treeFelled because of a fungal disease. It was planted in the 1870s and had been a meeting place ever since.
Post-shopping guiltAn unpleasant credit crunch side effect.
Tele-marketeersThey are ringing on Sundays lately, have you noticed?