Water is precious, says the little logo on the NI Water company vans. It’s particularly precious when you haven’t got any, but that’s not a problem the Norn Irish have ever had. For here, it rains… and it rains… and it rains. Most of the year round, in fact, except when its too cold to [...]
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I seem to have travelled a bit too far in all the confusion, for I have arrived back in the Ice Age. Everything is frozen. The first thing I had to do when I got back (after eating sausage rolls and sleeping for four hours, I mean) was buy some boots so that I could [...]
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3.11am For the first time in my life, I join in frantic applause as the plane makes contact with the runway. Aer Lingus are my heroes. Fearless, daring, determined heroes, who have gotten me home for Christmas where so many failed. Taking off and landing using ice-caked runways and feeling the plane veer sideways was… [...]
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1. I don’t like snow nearly as much as I’ve always thought I did. 2. Asiana Airlines are rubbish, and not a patch on the fabulous Korean Air. 3. People can be really nasty towards one another, as evidenced by the near-riots I witnessed at Brussels airport. 4. People can be really generous, warm, and [...]
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You know those Airline programmes, where they basically film everybody getting pissed off because their flights are delayed? I used to watch those in a sort of amused horror, laughing and cringing as people attacked the poor airline workers in crazed frenzies. Since then, I’ve travelled through many airports and seen lots of tense conversations, [...]
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I’ve said it before and I will say it again, as unfortunately there is no way for me to avoid it: I hate flying. However, the uncomfortable 13 hours in a cramped plane seat would have been worth it to then get off in London as planned and hop on over home. I watched the [...]
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Christmas starts a month or two beforehand, or at the very least, in the first week of December. Christmas is hearing the songs you’ve heard every year since you were born, over and over again until you can’t think of anything else. Christmas is seeing the lights twinkling every time you go into town. Christmas [...]
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Jump in front of the bus! I yell, breaking into a run and then diving into the path of a moving bus. It is shaping up to be a strange sort of day. Our problems began when we filed off the bus only to discover that the driver was standing at the door collecting our [...]
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This weekend I went skiing, which was a fairly ridiculous idea given that I have never been able to remain upright in snow at the best of times, never mind with a couple of clumsy great planks attached to my feet. Yet, somehow, looking at people effortlessly going swoosh-swoosh-swoosh down snowy mountainsides always makes me [...]
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You’ve got to accentuate the positive, Eliminate the negative, Latch on to the affirmative, Don’t mess with Mister In-Between. I don’t like negativity. I think this is possibly because I have a natural tendency to be very negative, myself, and have to keep a close guard of my mind to stop myself from being pulled [...]
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You Say Goodbye, I Say… Historical Snapshots It Just Makes Me Happy
