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A Film, a simple life and Asparagus
I clear up after dinner to the music from Jurassic Park which the youngest requested, she skips off while google plays the next track and my eyes…
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Waiting for Strawberries
I’m thinking of holidays, again. A warm heat, lazy afternoon tiredness, barefoot in the sand, ripe tomatoes and peaches, exploring the village sort of…
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Solo dinner
The cuckoo woke me in the morning, the soft, repetitive call gliding into my slumber, over and over as I start to wake from early morning dreaming. My…
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Sadness and Sisterhood
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Ten Years, a bakery, 3 babies and countless tears
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True love, Travel and Tomatoes
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Things aren’t always what they seem
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Value for Money
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Real Life Living the Dream
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A plate of perspective
a little fragility
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Take a compliment
I could feel the hot tears coming at the back of my eyes when the woman, with such warm genuineness put her hand on my arm and said ‘I love what you…
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Maybe I'm from the Wild West
A friend told me recently that the first time she visited the Beara Peninsula in County Cork she instantly felt an affinity; a tie of some kind, a soul…
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An Inspiring Work Trip
This is the third year in a row we have been able to take our staff on an educational work trip; in the current climate it is a huge risk (madness) to…
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Good Day Bad Day
I have a childhood scar on my left hand from when I selected the sharpest knife from the drawer and confidently stabbed right through a plastic lid deep…
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Paddy and the Green
It’s Friday night, I make a short but strong cocktail and take it outside for the first slurps in the waning afternoon light and watch the starlings…
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Vital Sisterhood Vitality
The Marram spikes through our clothes as we run through the dunes, intermittently resulting in an ‘ouch’ as the tip pierces skin. We follow the little…
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Ten Years, a bakery, 3 babies and countless tears
I closed my eyes a little but forgot to shut my mouth as I flew downhill on the bike straight through a swarm of newly hatched flies who were enjoying…
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Springing doubt
The Fulmar have started to pair off, soaring with grace on the updraughts to find a perfect spot on the face of the cliffs; cosying up on precarious…
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