30 Oct 2026
If there are trees or hedges adjacent to the road, drive in the overtaking lane where possible so that boggarts or goblins do not snatch you through the window as you pass.
Julian Alubaidy
words • gardens • wine • drums
‘Julian…soon built up a reputation for reliability and attention to detail…unfailing creativity…possesses a natural way with words and is both creatively gifted and professionally disciplined…’
Iseult Larkin, Deputy Editor at LivingSocial
About
‘I am in all a weak disabled thing,
Save in the sight thereof, where strength doth sting’
Firstly
What am I doing here? I can do gardening and drumming and work with words, and muddle along in the wine business.
Secondly
It's pretty much all there in Firstly. Country mouse; half-baked town mouse, along with a pile of other near and not-so-near misses; procrastinator and machine-breaker.
Words
A fair few jobs I've done have involved writing. I think I'm quite good at it—but the world is like, whatever.
Gardens
I worked on and off for seventeen years at the Annes Grove estate in Co Cork, Ireland, while it remained in private hands.
Wine
I am a wine-merchant-of-all-trades: tasting, buying, selling on- and off-line through many vintages, chiefly at Cork city business Bubble Brothers.
Drums
I play the drums, swing family mostly. I've had a lot of luck in who I've played with, and a lot of fun, for a non-musician. Have 'em, will travel, &c.