Sunday singsong 240116

Surfing youtube clips I came across this last week:

• Mattthew and the Atlas I will remain.  Remarkable off-beat clap-track behind vocals: a find!
• Everyone has heard of Hozier: the prodigy from Bray, Co Wicklow.  Now it's time to listen
• Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova sing Falling Slowly from the movie Once. Which could be the Anthem for Multicultural Ireland.  Wait <snif> there's something in my eye.
• Marble Sounds - The Time To Sleep 

And here's a link to a piece about the virtues of home education in Ireland. We know all the families mentioned because Dau.I and Dau.II never went to school. The peculiar, jarring, thing about the report is that these children are apparently educated by the parents. That wasn't our experience: the girls were given 17 years and 9 months of time and the side of a mountain of space to educate themselves and then they left home.