Monthly Archives: December 2011
Bye-bye 2011
Dot writes: we are finishing 2011 in a Quaker settlement in Wanganui. I can fairly say that I had no inkling of this at the start of the year. It is also absolutely pouring with rain with no forecast of … Continue reading
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Update
Dot writes: here are some things that are not typically part of an Irish Christmas: getting sunburnt on Christmas Day (and I was wearing suncream; it’s just there’s a bit in the middle of my upper back I seem to … Continue reading
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12000 miles later
Dot writes: and here we are. Indeed we’ve been here for almost 24 hours, but yesterday was a bit of a blur – partly a happy warm blur of gorgeous summer weather and idyllic views of bush and sea from … Continue reading
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Anybody with special intercessionary powers, please read closely
Dot writes: OK, so tomorrow we are off to NZ. Taxi is booked for 10am, flight to Heathrow 12.10. Only – Frank was vomiting on Thursday night so we took him to the doctor, who pronounced that he has an … Continue reading
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Crawling towards finishing line
Only two more hours in the classroom until my teaching finishes for the term, but by gum I’m tired…and there’s a huge big form to fill out about my research and my teaching philosophy and so forth before we head … Continue reading
Ireland’s Sugar High
Ken writes: I’ve had Bell X1′s album “Bloodless Coup” for a few months now, but I’ve only just recently listened to the lyrics closely enough to realise this song is about the Celtic Tiger developers. It’s good.
Meanwhile, Hugh…
…is very much enjoying his bug book, sent by Grandma, and made me take a picture of him pointing to his favourite bit. The creature in question is a bombardier beetle, which, according to the book, defends itself against its … Continue reading
In the wars
Dot writes: this is what Frank looked like earlier this evening: By his eye: Sunday. He fell over and whacked himself on the base of his Stokke chair. Nose: this morning. He fell over in the street, either on the … Continue reading
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Curious experience
Dot writes: I was doing a spot of Christmas shopping on Henry Street, which was full of people, and I suddenly had a feeling as though I had become impossibly thin-skinned: as though for a moment I was overwhelmed with … Continue reading
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No, actually they’re your kids.
Ken writes: In the usual order of things, when a father is also the biological father of his children and the mother is also their biological mother, it seems obvious that the children’s genetic heritage derives from exactly half from … Continue reading
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