Category Archives: Family

Sixteen, stupors, shocks and Scrabble

I seem to have segued nicely into the latter half of my teenage here in France. Had a lovely phone call at 00:15 from a friend of mine too and despite my half-asleep-ness (I’m such a terrible teenager; half-asleep and … Continue reading

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Paging Doctor Normality

Phew, and just like that, RENT is over. What’s really been a whirlwind 4 weeks have come to end with a gargantuan-sized jolt. We put on two shows yesterday – the matinee audience mostly consisted of close friends and family, a … Continue reading

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Hmm, not that much

OK, I don’t hate the internet that much – that I wouldn’t post for 3 days. The reason for this is the simple fact that we’re putting on a 2.5 hour show twice in one day in 8 days time (tomorrow … Continue reading

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In My Father’s Time… Part 1

Today’s post is a guest post from Dad, who reminisces on his own dad (my grandfather) and gardening. *** All the children’s tales begin with “Long, long ago” or in the Irish Storyteller way “In my father’s time”, so maybe … Continue reading

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And now for the lull

Well, Christmas is over. The next big thing we have to look forward to is the coming of the New Year. I think the days between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day perhaps my favourite days all year. No one … Continue reading

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Karting, the belated round 2

We are a family of precious few traditions, it has to be said. Well, tradition in the, erm, traditional sense of the word. You know, like going to midnight mass or having Grandma over for Christmas dinner, or everyone piling … Continue reading

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Welcome Home

This morning, John arrived home for Christmas. I decided to join Mom and Dad in going to collect him, joking that good brothers came and met their siblings from the airport when they came to visit, because when I had … Continue reading

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Boston, day 1

I arrived in early yesterday. The journey was uneventful, apart from crashing the TV screen, as shown in the picture: I reached the terminal at about 15:30, thirty five minutes before schedule. After getting someone to fish my cane out … Continue reading

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Grandparents

People I never really had. I read blogposts by different people (mainly from IrishStudentBlogs folks) about their experiences with their grandparents, and I try to imagine what my interaction with mine would have been like. The only grandparent I have … Continue reading

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The one where everyone’s favourite Irish, 15 year old, red-haired, House-cane-using blogger gets botox.

If you could get all your Simon Cowell facelift jokes out of your system right around now, it’d be just great, thanks :) Botox is also a muscle relaxant, which means that a rigorous stretching system of the muscles involved … Continue reading

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