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An embarrassing post about abscesses that I probably shouldn’t post. 20 Aug 2013 | 02:41 am
This is an hiatus. I realise that blog posts here are thin on the ground, that’s because they’re all on scraps of paper in drawers and in notebooks in random handbags. I write better in hand-writing,...
How to ride a Quad-Bike 17 Jun 2013 | 02:18 am
I must admit a huge weakness of mine. I don’t like to tell people that I can’t do something new. I’d rather give something a go, fail miserably, then and ONLY THEN tell people that maybe this isn’t th...
Ad hoc 6 Jun 2013 | 02:10 am
The lady who worked in the kitchen hadn’t a whole lot of English. We got our messages through to her via elaborate miming and scattered Spanish words which entertained her to no end. She was an amazin...
The catcher in the surf 29 May 2013 | 03:13 am
5.30am The Howler Monkeys. I woke up in the middle of a dream where I was being attacked by Predator. It was outside my window with its glowing lasers and it was threatening to take away my sanitary t...
Enter Paradise 22 May 2013 | 03:18 am
So there we were, all twenty-two of us. We were eight children (four with disabilities), two mammies (being Yours Truly and Curly), two mentors and a film crew. We all landed with Irish flourish in a ...
Going back in time 29 Apr 2013 | 01:26 am
Long-haul flights are not something I’m used to. I don’t get to travel at all, but the thought of doing absolutely nothing after years of worrying and working and toiling and fussing seemed pretty swe...
A thorough grounding 25 Apr 2013 | 02:26 am
Having floated from Connemara with a newborn curiosity about my eight new children and some very damp laundry, I had two weeks to prepare for the rest of the documentary shooting in Costa Rica. So, I ...
The Wild West – the endurance test. 21 Apr 2013 | 04:32 am
I didn’t know a whole lot when I entered into this. I knew that a documentary was being filmed about eight transition-year kids (all aged 16/17); four of whom were disabled, the other four able-bodied...
Introduction to the Asylum experience, and thoughts on how life happens when you least expect it to. 19 Apr 2013 | 11:32 pm
I’m not a great person for sticking to routines, but routines are exactly what are needed when you need to run a family effectively. For this reason, life began to seem monochrome, sounds were just a ...
The lonely mystic 28 Feb 2013 | 02:58 am
They say that every story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Mine is not so much like that. Mine is very much an in-between sort of story. Everything hurts today, it’s that season. Everyon...
