Drunk when sober.
Yesterday evening I met a friend after work and we wandered around the shops for a while, overspending, before going for dinner. A four course Spring special, that was actually five, pulled us into its...
View ArticleLast Sunday
Last Sunday my Granddad got up and went to 9 o'clock Mass in his local church.Last Sunday I got up and brought my mother to brunch at 11.30am in Odessa.Later my Granddad had a roast goose dinner,...
View ArticleFish fingers and strawberries
Since I last posted my life has pretty much returned to normal. The first week was a blur. Wake on Monday, removal Tuesday, funeral Wednesday and back to work on Thursday. On the Friday I was back on...
View ArticleL is for Learner
When I was 16 I decided I wanted a yellow VW beetle. I started saving and begging my Dad, but neither worked. Any savings I accumulated ended up being spent on holidays instead and my Dad thought I...
View ArticleIt’s my birthday and I’ll party if I want to..
It’s not my birthday, not yet, but there are a lot of birthdays going on at the moment. Three of my best friends’ birthdays are within 4 weeks of each other between April and May. Some celebrate, some...
View ArticleHow does your garden grow..?
With help from friends and a new found enthusiasm. This weekend, with the boy at work, a couple of good (green-fingered) friends came over and we tackled my garden. After a precarious, sharp, left...
View ArticleOops, I appear to have lost June!
I think I must have spent every spare minute in June either watering my garden or driving, lessons and practice for the test! The garden watering was calm and lovely but the stress of the test was a...
View ArticleSeven bottles of wine on the floor…
It was a great way to end what was, without a doubt, the best two weeks’ annual leave I’ve ever taken. On Monday, the Bank Holiday I almost forgot, I met three of my longest serving friends for lunch....
View ArticleFootball versus football.
Growing up in my house there were two kinds of football. Football and soccer. No, before anyone starts, we’re not American. We’re Irish. My Mum’s from the hurling side of a Gaelic county and my Dad...
View ArticleNothing to see here..
No really, there isn't. Work, gym, spending time with himself, Croke Park, MasterChef, Family Guy, cooking, cleaning, eating, drinking, sleeping.That's about it really for the last month.And now I have...
View ArticleSniffle snuffle.
Sniffle snuffle. Cough and splutter.I have a cold. Not a life threatening or life altering thing, just annoying. First a sore throat, then an earache, followed by a headache. It moved down into my...
View ArticleIt’s beginning to look a lot like…
Christmas!I’m very excited. I know, I know, it’s only November. Keep calm and wait till December. I can’t help it though, I’m excited.I accidentally started Christmas shopping a few weeks ago, when in...
View ArticleBeen and gone..
Just making it in before the month and year end, with not much to say. Christmas was good, though somewhat of a whirlwind. Staying in my parents', eating in my aunt's, driving west to my Mum's family...
View ArticleIt's for you...
The phone rings, I answer 'hello', turning off the vacuum cleaner.'what are you up to?''hoovering''how was dinner last night?''good, really good''what'd you get up today?''nothing much, took it easy,...
View ArticleWhat I didn't say was...
Things I haven't blogged about in the last two months:How himself and myself are getting on living together.How I am now friends with my mother and father on Facebook.How I have neither time, nor...
View ArticleGetting there.
How himself and myself are getting on living together.Very well, thanks for asking. It's so easy, despite my tendencies towards Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and the fact that we had both lived alone...
View ArticleCan I help you with something?
I don’t like shopping. There, I said it, shun me at will! I mean clothes shopping, I could grocery shop for days on end, I’m strange that way. I’ve never liked it, regardless of my age or size, and...
View ArticleWe are different people...
I am glad of that.I like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain. I like sitting on my own, outside a Paris café, watching people go by. I like to ride on Jack Yeats’ horse, running blurry and...
View ArticleThings I've learned a little too recently...
Buffalo mozzarella is made from buffalo milk, and is not just big mozzarella.Buffaloes come in male and female.The plural of buffalo is buffaloes.Nuns are not entitled to free travel, unless they are...
View ArticleBy chance..
Last Thursday evening I left work about ten or fifteen minutes later than my usual shiny-shaped hole in the door at 17:01. As I was walking close to home, I saw a little old lady walking towards me. I...
View ArticleSpring forward, fall down.
Last week...Someone in the office: Is it this weekend the hour changes?K: Yeah, the clocks go forward.S: So we lose an hour?Me: Ah, I'm confused.P: Just remember 'Spring forward, Fall back'...Me: Oh, I...
View ArticleMy mechanic just joined Viber...
On Sunday as I reached the beginning of the pier again, I checked my phone and saw a notification that said 'Alan Mechanic has joined Viber' and sighed. Don't get me wrong I'm not a technophobe, I love...
View ArticleThree not-so-scary things that happen in work, sometimes.
Inspired by 13 scary things that always happened at school I started thinking of the grown up, work, equivalent. I thought of three before I started to get paranoid, a bit bored and realised I should...
View ArticleRoll on..
The following things have, in no particular order, not happened to me this year:Two weddingsOne funeralTwo boysOne girlA brain tumourAn engagementA cancer diagnosisA first birthday A car crash Two new...
View ArticleFour years.
He's four years gone today and I still remember the call, and I'm still not right for it.My mother rang me Wednesday just gone, 19 minutes before I was due over for dinner. She wanted me to bring...
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