Do you know what I just did, “out of sheer badness” as my mother would say? I’m sitting at the kitchen table, and I happened to glance out the door, across the hall, into the front porch, where Kat was perched on the windowsill on the left of the front door. She was doing that [...]
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This week, I have been mostly delivering leaflets. I volunteered to distribute the 4000 or so direct mailers for our upcoming sale at work, thinking it would get me away from the desk and give me some breathing space, exercise and time to think. Three days and 1500 leaflets later, I weigh much less, have decidedly [...]
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Late at night, we are gathered around the lightbulb (camping just doesn’t have the same rustic feel to it, these days), gazing up at the stars. The sky really does look quite spectacular, here at the foot of the Mournes – clear and vast, like a dark velvet canvas on which God has idly painted a [...]
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It’s the midges that get me. I mean, literally get me. They’ve always been interested in me, but since I got my hair cut short and applied liberal amounts of styling product to it, the wee sods seem to make a bee-line (midge-line?) for me. Of course, my hair is so mad that it’s the [...]
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Back Monday night, hopefully with plenty of blog material. You’ll miss me, won’t you?
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Leave My Kitten Alone by The Beatles (From the album Anthology 1) You better leave my kitten all alone, You better leave my kitten all alone. Well, I told you, big, fat bulldog tom cat, You better leave her alone. You better leave my kitten all alone, You better leave my kitten all alone. This [...]
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Kat the Cat is playing up again. She’d become almost normal for a short while there – you know, just sleeping a lot, eating, purring, lying on the windowsill and doing other regular, lazy cat things. In the past 24 hours, all that has changed, and she has run away, been found, half-eaten a very [...]
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According to a commenter, my posts are too long to read. I’m not sure how he’d ever deal with a novel, if he had to read one.
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Continued from yesterday’s post. I look at the passing delapidated buildings, murals, flags and gangsters with mounting concern. How has this happened? I was so close to Belfast Central Station that I was practically on the railway track, and now here I am, apparently in the ganglands of the Bronx. A text arrives from Dirk as I’m sitting at a set [...]
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I went to Belfast last night to pick up some friends at Central Station. For this reason, they were very fortunate to get home at all. It’s a relatively new thing for me to have the confidence to drive through Belfast. The lanes confuse me and the traffic scares me, because everyone else knows what [...]
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You Say Goodbye, I Say… Historical Snapshots It Just Makes Me Happy
