Category Archives: Irish life

After 42 Years I Finally ‘Get’ Christmas

Posted on December 3, 2017 by Melanie

Well, that’s not entirely accurate.  I did enjoy Christmas as a child.  But for a long time now, a really long time, I could take or leave it.  As a teenaged child of divorced parents there was the issue of … Continue reading →

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Started Mid-Morning, Took My Camera

Posted on November 29, 2017 by Melanie

Many moons ago I left you contemplating Oscar Wilde (‘the queer with the leer’) lounging around his rock in his smoking jacket.  The man was a lush but he gave the world such pithy observations as: ‘I can resist everything … Continue reading →

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