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Wonderful characters from a diverse array of books leaped off the pages into the classrooms at Ballydesmond National School last Friday as children and staff celebrated World Book Day in style. We have been celebrating World Book Day in our school for many years. The children love it. It s a break from the routine of work and gives them the opportunity to foster a love of reading and books, teacher Ella O Sullivan told The Corkman. The children had a wonderful time, we had everyone from Captain Underpants to Harry Potter and from cowboys to unicorns enrolling for the one day event. It is lovely to see the children get such enjoyment from books and reading, Ella said.
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“Crisis,” the thoughtful film directed and written by Nicholas Jarecki, is definitely worth your consideration. Timing, as has long been said, is everything and this film should have been blessed by the timing of the revelations into the OxyContin industry and the part played by Purdue Pharmaceuticals and the Sackler family. Instead it is damned by the timing of the sexual abuse allegations against the film’s star, Armie Hammer. Still, in a baby with the bathwater comparison, the message and the storytelling in “Crisis” should override the ick factor.
“Crisis” tells three intersecting stories about the opioid epidemic.
RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON: 3 ½ STARS If you look on IMDb, there are dozens of titles containing the phrase “dragon slayer.” Movie dragons, by and large have been of the Smaug variety, a beast “The Hobbit” author J.R.R. Tolkien described as “a most specially greedy, strong and wicked worm.” There are exceptions of course, like the “How to Train Your Dragon” creatures and the wyvern in “The Reluctant Dragon” who would rather recite poetry than cause havoc. “You’ve got to be mad to breathe fire,” he says, “but I’m not mad at anybody.” This week we can add Sisu the self-deprecating water dragon voiced by Awkwafina in Disney+’s animated “Raya and the Last Dragon,” to the happy dragon list
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Kenwood Chef mixer and a Magimix 2000
My wife inherited the Kenwood stand mixer from her grandmother about 30 years ago, and it still has the K-shaped beater, dough hook and whisk, plus two bowls. We think it’s from the late 70s. As for the Magimix 2000 food processor, my mum passed that to me about 25 years ago, along with the blade, graters and various other attachments. I think I remember her using it in the mid- to late 80s. Both are in perfect working order and are used at least once a week – I wouldn’t dream of replacing either until such time as I could not repair them. We’ve got friends who have been through multiple variants of similar, more modern machines in the time that we’ve been using these – they are (touch wood) indestructible.