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overthehillandfaraway's Blogs in July 2008

The Cruise, The Curragh and the Critters
I've found it really hard to settle since my return from the cruise. On reflection, I did enjoy the experience but somehow can't think of it as a proper holiday. A proper holiday for me is hours of relaxation to read without disruption and that didn't really happen. I did read......Read More

Posted on: 2008-07-01 09:19:15 | Rating:

| Views: 57 | Comments: 7 | Tags: homecoming racing

The 3 year old who taught me a lesson
I'm home for a couple of days and enjoying the sheer luxury of having the internet again and catching up with all my friends on Thoughts. I miss it a lot when I'm in Donegal but it's the price I have to pay from being on the most northerly part of Ireland where it's impossible to......Read More

Posted on: 2008-07-09 05:11:41 | Rating:

| Views: 77 | Comments: 10 | Tags: making comparisons

Me and Jonathon Ross are just like that!
I just got back from seeing the consultant this morning. I had been dreading it as I know I have to have a rather unpleasant procedure. However, after seeing him I feel so much better as he really put me at ease and, although I still have to have it done, he assured me I would be......Read More

Posted on: 2008-07-17 07:33:29 | Rating:

| Views: 69 | Comments: 9 | Tags: Thanks daydreams encouragement

The garbage, the magpies, the insults and me
Bryan just left for Donegal and I am feeling pretty sick with myself. I can't believe something so big happened over something so small. Let me explain. When we came up at the beginning of the week we brought a bag of rubbish (you guys call it garbage) with us to throw into......Read More

Posted on: 2008-07-19 06:23:08 | Rating:

| Views: 60 | Comments: 7 | Tags: quarrels regrets

Discontent on Thoughts?
Is it just me or do I notice more people getting upset with Thoughts these days? Maybe it's the hot weather but then again that won't affect anyone from the UK at the moment. I read this morning of Thoughts members getting annoyed with other Thoughts members and wondered just what......Read More

Posted on: 2008-07-21 09:49:29 | Rating:

| Views: 139 | Comments: 15 | Tags: blogging

The anti-gay MP who calls herself a Christian
Last night I found myself writing an open letter to an MP representing a constituency in Northern Ireland where I live. Irish Robinson has made a verbal attack against homosexuals in Westminster in June stating " There can be no viler act, apart from homosexuality and sodomy, than......Read More

Posted on: 2008-07-23 06:47:47 | Rating:

| Views: 113 | Comments: 7 | Tags: gay tolerance Christianity

The 'bag lady' who was really a lady. Part 1
I looked at her face on the pillow, her face a deathly pale, congealed blood at the side of her mouth. Her hair was dishevelled, strewn across the pillow in a mass of tangled curls. Her arms lay on top of the sheets, tiny pricks of blood, dark against her fragile skin. I......Read More

Posted on: 2008-07-24 07:02:31 | Rating:

| Views: 95 | Comments: 8 | Tags: alcoholism

The Bag Lady Part 2 (a true story)
By the time I left the hospital I had been promised that Marcia would be put on another programme which would involve counselling (if she would accept it) and the promise that they would transfer her to a local hospital in Oban, the town on the mainland nearest her island home. We agreed......Read More

Posted on: 2008-07-25 05:07:24 | Rating:

| Views: 46 | Comments: 2 | Tags: alcoholism

The Bag Lady Part 3 (The End)
I went with Bryan in the morning to visit Marcia at the cottage. It would have looked strange if I hadn't as everyone knew I was there. She was polite enough and showed me round the cottage which was quite charming. I heard later that she had had someone in to clean for......Read More

Posted on: 2008-07-25 19:05:31 | Rating:

| Views: 51 | Comments: 6 | Tags: alcoholism

Good morning America. While you slept...
While you slept I came downstairs in my pj's made myself a cup of breakfast tea (always the best of the day) Switched on my PC just to see what sort of a day you all had yesterday I shed a tear with Country_girl got an education with derbyatlambeth screamed with......Read More