The invitation came hand-delivered. Nice touch.
“Session on for the Young Lad’s 40th in one of the sheds on the farm. Don’t tell him – it’s a surprise. Dress cood [sic] western style. And don’t bring drink – there’ll be loads.”
Grand, says I. I’ll go to that. It’ll make feel old what with the Young Lad [...]
I see that portacabin the builder had in your garden’s gone, Sneezy. Take it back to the yard did he?
No. Sold it. Sort of.
Fair play to him. Say he got a few quid for it – it was a monster.
Dead right it was. 11 by 4½ metres. And high too.
So what did he get for [...]
This has been languishing in drafts for a long time. I was going to leave it there until it jumped up and clocked me on the shins like the footrests of a blackbelt’s wheelchair. Bear with me – after this, there’s only one more. I don’t know when I’ll be able to face into writing [...]
I played with the Cat for hours yesterday. Great craic. I think the Cat enjoyed it too. Pretending it had voice control was fun too – “Yo! Back, Ho” for reverse and so on.
A large area has been cleared and graded off, ready for the bouncy slug/train/whatever and some fancy concert-like fake grass will be [...]
And so there was to be a party. A big one. There would be people there from far and wide. Far meaning a husband and wife from Spain. Wide meaning an aunt Maggie and her arse.
Would I like to help with the preparations? Help meaning receive a long list of tasks and complete them in [...]
The local hotel all but had a sign over the door saying underage drinkers welcome. In appreciation of their welcoming us over the previous year or so that’s where met up the night before the Leaving Cert results were released. The plan was just two pints to settle the nerves and we stuck to it. [...]
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