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Showing posts with label words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label words. Show all posts
Thursday, 6 February 2025

Keeping afloat in hospital

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I watched a young mother phone her family from her hospital bed across from me. The conversation was overheard in the darkness of the ward w...
Thursday, 29 September 2022

Spring cleaning in September?

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It began simply. Over Sunday lunch my mum was trying to tell visiting family members just what she’d done the previous day. However, she ...
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Thursday, 24 March 2022

I wouldn’t spit on ye if ye were on fire!

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There are expressions that are so colloquial even a person living in the region may not recognise them. It reminds me of my son who had been...
Wednesday, 7 December 2016

Diogenes, his barrel and his brutal challenges from over two milleniums ago

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The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted. quote of Diogenes Growing up in a small rural village high in the ...
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Monday, 1 December 2014

Religion, Rooster Cogburn and a lack of grit

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In searching for progress we are sometimes nudged gradually, painfully in certain directions.   For me one of the earliest turning poin...
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Tuesday, 13 November 2012

Let each morn be better than its eve

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"Let each morn be better than its eve and each morrow richer than its yesterday ." You get up and hope that the day ahead is...
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Born in Canada, went to Australia for a few years, brought up in Northern Ireland, lived on Greek island for ten years.
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