Oh for feck’s sake. I’m sixty. Today’s primary source - my father’s diary entry recording the event:
I think the fact that I was born at 4 am meant that I was prioritised over other important activities during the day such as bog-ploughing.
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My daughter, then aged six, was offered a choice of plaster casts for her broken wrist. 1st-flowers (no thank you), 2nd-teddies (no thank you), 3rd-dinosaurs (yes please). Her response to Dr's rather patronising questions was a lecture on the tyrannosaurus rex..
So the estate agent yesterday says to my husband “are you a medical doctor or a Doctor of Philosophy?” At which point I have to inform him that actually the little wifey is the doctor in our house 🙄🙄🙄🤬🤬
#fuckoff
#getagrip
not buying the flat anyway…
@MadameGilflurt
Love Belville Sassoon. My Mum made me this in full length in bright fuchsia in the mid-1980s. Must try and source the picture of me in it!
@duchas_ie
There was a chap known as 'Also Compteted' in my locality, which was related to his always being reported thus in the local paper after sporting events.
@ThisDayIrish
My great-grandfather was awarded compensation to the tune of £3,000 (I don't have the date, early 20s I guess) because the Black & Tans turned up at the farm, beat the daylights out of my grandfather & burnt down two barns of hay. Utter thugs.
As we head towards Twelfth Night, here I am (just after my graduation ceremony on 15/12/23) on the magnificent University of Luxembourg campus, all dressed up for Christmas on its 20th anniversary. Happy New Year one and all! Here’s to a great 2024!
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Mamma’, said Edith, ’how do I convey to the little dog that I’m only trying to hold my drawers up and I don’t actually have treats in my pocket?’
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On Armistice Day, remembering those left with the very visible scars of war, such as Sous-Lieutenant Allemand, depicted here by the relatively unknown artist Raphael Freida. The image is from the collection at the Musée des Hospices Civils in Lyon.
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Leonora was tiring of Egbert’s trophies from his outrageous drunken rampages with the lads. Last weekend it was traffic cones, someone’s cat, and half a veranda. And now the manhole cover. ‘It was a great night’, he said. ‘I can’t remember a thing!’
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Some hours later, Hubert and the Reverend Wincegrove were still so engrossed in their analysis of the cricket that they hadn’t noticed that Euphemia had actually died of boredom.
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“Yes, it’s definitely a tick.” said Humphrey. “Never mind that!” said Grandmama, “I’m more concerned about the maid…her head’s on back to front!”
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The next episode of
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In this episode,
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We would put the scalpel in a kidney dish to hand it to the surgeon to avoid accidents. Failing that, hand it to them handle first, blade facing downward. Official name for a kidney dish is ‘receiver’. We usually put specimens in them as well after their removal.
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“Agnesh, dear…Whoops! Hic…how mush sherry did you put in the Jubbly….Jooory…Juuublee…emm…trifle? I’m awful confooshed and my legs ‘ave gone somewhere elsh…”
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My Dad remembers when he was a boy being sent into the fields to shoo away the corncrakes before the harvest. We saw a mother & two chicks down in West Cork a few years ago & reported it to a conservation for corncrakes group.
Slightly concerned (i.e. beside myself) all afternoon as my daughter had a meeting with her tutor re: a Masters. Anyway...Hurrah! She's got a project, so off she goes in September.
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Eunice loved sketching down by the river, especially when the chaps turned up for a swim, and particularly because swimming trunks hadn’t been invented yet...
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Now for this week’s caption contest - a summer scene.
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@lickedspoon
chocolate cherry cake just out of the oven. I haven’t got a bundt tin, and I really need to get my act together abd just buy one. After all I live in bundt central.