I remember a very sophisticated London Theatrical type coming to run the Group Theatre in Cork while I was at University there.
He used to stun us all by talking of pre and post “TW3” humour.
Eventually one of us poor hicks from Cork summed up the courage to ask him what the hell “TW3” was.
Apparently there had been a television programme in England called “That Was The Week That Was” which was reckoned to be ground-breaking.
The fact that we in Cork at that time could only recept RTE 1, was not considered relevant by this particular person.
In fact now that I think about it he was a fairly pretentious little bollox all round- but the following piece has absolutely nothing to do with him- I was just trying to remember where I got the title from.

At this time of the year it is I think rather fun to remember some of the bits that stick out in ones memory, so here, in no particular order except a vague chronology are some of my highlights of the year.

Hugh Fearnley Wittingstall’s very successful Chicken Out campaign.

Being short listed for Best Food Blog was a thrill.

Discovering that through the wonders of the internet it was possible to talk to anyone one wanted, and, thereby talking to the great David Crystal about linguistics, and to food hero Tom Jaine about “Food God “(and his step father) George Perry-Smith

It was a year of several Unprovoked Doggeral Attacks, notably for my brother-in-law Milo’s Eightieth , Nephew Martin’s wedding to Suzie and sister-in-law Una’s birthday.

Work proceeded apace in the Presbytere in Thezan, the builder particularly doing a beautiful job and Clive and I finishing the year in style with a successful Dining Room Floor

2008 was the year I became a (lower case) journalist, having three pieces accepted by the Irish Times, enough to inflate the Dwyer ego even further.

We had another superb summer in France, our third, with beautiful weather and loads of friends visiting. Roll on the future.

September brought a fantastically successful Terra Madre to Waterford, thereby installing Slow Food firmly in Ireland. Huge credit to Darina Allen and Donal Lehane.

Then Barack Obama Won!

Daughters are always a great source of joy and our three did well this year.
Eileen delighted us with her new boy friend, Caitriona with her news of oncoming babby, and Deirdre with her terrific achievement on winning the Pat Murray Bursary.

The Dwyer Book Launch was a terrific moment and the culmination of a lot of work, again thanks to Mary Leland, brother Ted and Sister D, they played a stormer! Donal Musgraves excellent end of year review in the IT was remarkable.

I will exit with a photo, not one of my own but my favourite one of the year taken cleverly by beau-frere Colm, through his binoculars in February of the Pyrenees from the terrace in Thezan.