Just a quick post to let you know I and my fellow ladies survived our few days away. In fact we more than survived it, loving every minute. Here’s a brief recap of some of my finer moments, In airport bookshop at 5am… Me… ‘I’ll have this book thank you’, Shop assistant… ‘and the pack … More Malaga as experienced by me.
If you can see this it proves I’m a wordpress genius. Okay not quite but it does mean I have managed to schedule a post. If it’s Friday it means I’ve even got the day right. Do you wonder why I’m scheduling? Well just to let you all know I’m miles away from this blog … More Can you see this?
This day twenty one years ago I left home the mother of one. Many hours later my son was delivered. Today he is many miles from home hopefully celebrating his birthday. As I sit here alone and remember so many wonderful moments I feel a tinge of sadness. So many memories, so many parts of … More ‘It’s a boy’. Happy Birthday.
Today Daniel should be getting his Junior Cert results along with thousands of others. He should be all excited about going out with his many friends tonight to celebrate. Today is another day Daniel is sorely missed. As the world spins and the days pass we continue to live, but never forget. Over texts today … More A pause to remember
Oh dear, I’m traumatised. What happened I hear you say? (I have a good imagination). Well as I was happily going about enjoying last Friday night, I received a facebook message that stopped me in my tracks. It was from the husband of one of my oldest friends. She lives in the US and … More I’ll give vlogging a skip.
Today I saw a photograph I cannot unsee. The photo of a small lifeless boy, three years old, lying face down on the shore of a beach, the waves lapping over his head. He, his brother aged five and his mother drowned when their boat overturned as they made a desperate bid for freedom from … More If you only read one thing online today…
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Three years ago I was enjoying a carefree life with my friends, unaware that for one of them life was about to change forever. Her son Daniel, was 12 and just beginning his new life in secondary school. An amazingly talented sports fanatic, full of divilment and fun, a … More Fight like a child.
Sometimes I forget people who know me read this blog. Today, via a parcel in the post, I got a reminder they do. I received a package from the postman with my huband and my name and address typed on the front. Inside was a present for our twenty fifth wedding anniversary. Why I hear … More Surprise package, but from who?
Can you imagine an 80 year old ex English soldier sleeping next to an ex IRA soldier also in his 80s? Well in the ward I worked on back in the late 1980s, this is exactly what happened. Initially they arrived on the same day, two elderly gentlemen, coming in to have the same surgery. I settled them … More Lest we forget?
Do you ever schedule posts? Did you even know you could? Well genius here was blogging about one year before I became curious as to what it meant. When I investigated I thought it was not really for me, as at the time I was posting almost daily and publishing immediately after I’d written. So … More My scheduling gaffe. An apology.
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