For the first time since I left Northern Ireland back in 2008, I am the owner of a guitar. I’ve really missed my guitar. I never had any proper lessons – just taught myself chords from charts on the internet, and took the occasional nugget of wisdom from Jay next door. It wasn’t much, but [...]
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I’ve been reading my way through a lot of old “story papers” over the past few months. The Magnet was actually a paper for schoolboys for the first half of the 20th century, although I eagerly read my dad’s Billy Bunter books when I was young, despite being “only a girl”. The stories are no [...]
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I have officially just had the best working week of my life. Maybe it’s just because I’ve been away so long and it was quite exciting to come back, the way the first day of the new school year was always exciting back in the day. Or maybe it was the warm, fuzzy feeling on [...]
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This conversation amongst my 6-year-olds, a follow-on from a previous discussion on their various romances, probably doesn’t sound as funny written down, but I was laughing my head off all the way through it. There’s something about their innocence, their enthusiasm, and the fact that they are freely speaking in a language that is not [...]
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I’m turning 30 this year. For real, this time – in actual years spent breathing, as opposed to made-up length of time as per Korean age reckoning system. And, you know, sometimes I feel like it’s all a big joke, as I don’t feel any more grown up now than I did when I was [...]
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I’m using jetlag to my advantage, this time around, as fortunately it’s not too bad and is merely causing me to fall asleep early at night and wake up very early in the morning. Let’s face it, being alert in the morning is something I have dreamed of since I was a teenager, so I’m [...]
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Well, I could write a tale or two about the journey back to the ROK, but I’m much more in the mood to write something cheerful and positive! Instead, let me tell you about airline food. Airline food is not the stuff of traumatic nightmares that the majority of people seem to believe it to [...]
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I haven’t been blogging much over the past month, but that is, as you probably know, because I’ve been on holiday back in Norn Iron. This has involved ridiculous amounts of food and drink, lots of lazing around on the sofa watching soaps and gameshows, and of course plenty of socialising with family and old [...]
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There are key moments in everyone’s life. The moment when you get your exam results. The moment when you start your new school. The moment you have your first kiss. The moment you sit behind the wheel of your first car. For me, the latest ‘key moment’ was two nights ago, when I suddenly realised, [...]
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(Partial list. Actual complete list of all items consumed would be much too utterly horrific and shameful to publish.) Northern Irish Chinese curries: 4 Tayto cheese ‘n’ onion: approx. 10 packets Assorted other crisps including Monster Munch, Discos, Meanies and McCoys: Millions. Steaks: 4 Sausage rolls from Irons’ Bakery: approx. 15 Vol-au-vents: 8 Chocolates including [...]
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You Say Goodbye, I Say… Historical Snapshots It Just Makes Me Happy
