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Nov/09

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Conas atá tú?

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I was talking to my sister the other day on Skype. In the background I could hear my two year old nephew on the baby monitor, singing away to himself in the cot. She had just put him down for the night. Every so often I would hear his little voice chime in with ‘twinkle, twinkle, L-M-N-O-P, old McDonald had a farm’. He only turned two in October, but she has been teaching him nursery rhymes and songs since he was only a few months old, and there is no stopping him now. Last week she started trying to teach him a cupla focal. This may not seem so strange except for the fact that they live in Singapore; there is not a lot of use for the mother tongue in the Far East. When it’s bedtime, she whispers to him ‘ Stephen ag dul a codladh‘ or some such sweet nothing… (more…)

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Nov/09

25

Rain, rain, go away

Main St Bandon, 21 November 2009 [Photo: P Duggan]I’m from a place called Bandon, a country town at the gateway to West Cork. You may or may not have heard, but Bandon, like a lot of the rest of the country, was flooded out of it last week. Quite devastated in fact. I felt so helpless listening to the news from my mother and sister, and seeing the photos on friends Facebook pages. I cannot imagine how gutted the whole town is, I was close to tears just hearing about it, I cannot imagine living it.   (more…)

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Nov/09

24

Badge of honour

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So, at the start of May this year I weighted in at 107kg in my bare feet. It took me a long time, but I had gotten to the point where I couldn’t convince myself any longer that this was okay. I had joined a gym back in 2005. Back then I tipped 118kg, and a size 26. I got down to 112 by exercising a load but not changing my diet one bit. I felt better, but it didn’t last. (more…)

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Nov/09

24

Okay, so this is blogging

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From my very limited experience, I understand that in blogging it’s best to make it witty, or educational, or maybe promote my latest vehicle. Except I don’t have a vehicle, unless you count the Punto sitting outside whom I have stopped loving because she has cost me so much money in the last few months that i could have replaced her by now with a nice shiny Focus. (more…)

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