Category Archives: Cork
Sunday Rugby
We don’t have a television. There is a tiny bit of deep hidden political meaning in this non-ownership. It means that we have a lot of freedom in how we view entertainment, but on the other hand, we are also … Continue reading
A Reflection on Funerals
We have had a month of deaths. Special people who made the world different and people who matter to my dear friends are gone. Mortality is on my mind. I’ve gone to funerals before now. I’ve felt that awful sense … Continue reading
Posted in Cork, Family, Health, Skibbereen, West Cork
Tagged ceremonies, death, Family, freedom of choice, funeral, funeral arrangements, god, goddess, grief, Hope, house, humanism, humanist, mortality, passing on, sadness, secular, West Cork
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a little bit of nothing and too much…
I haven’t been able to write anything since Christmas. Every time I start a subject, another pops up and demands to be dealt with in my real life. So maybe I can excuse it by stating that I have been … Continue reading
Posted in Cork, Family, Ireland, Parenting, Uncategorized, Weird, West Cork
Tagged birthday party, Brian Cowen, children, death, depression, durrus, escape, green party, guinea pig, Happiness, homebirth, Hope, hospital, house, kale, laughing, Love, parential alienation, pregnancy, rabbit, Silky hens, stepson, swearing, West Cork
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Christmas Eve
A Very Merry Christmas to you all from us here in Friendly Cove, Durrus, Ireland
Posted in Cork, Family
Tagged children, durrus, friendly cove, Hope, house, West Cork
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Solstice Lunar Eclipse…..Need Assistance!
The Lunar eclipse this winter solstice happens in Gemini at 29º. Apparently the last time the world saw an eclipse at Solstice was about 500 years ago, so it feels epoch making at the least for that history fact. It’s … Continue reading
Trounce Those Budget Blues, Lads
When I looked at this chart, the first thing that I see is that giant glob of planets in Capricorn in the 3rd house. Wow, Mars, Pluto, the Moon, Mercury and the N Node all bunched there together. What a … Continue reading
Full Moon in Taurus
This was the full moon over Durrus yesterday evening just before dinner.
Fairy houses in Myross
Late this summer, my sons and I walked around myross woods and filmed the experience. Such a new thing for me to do! Supposedly it was to be a birthday present for my sister (2nd Sept) and I am only … Continue reading
Dear Minister for Health & Children
Ms. Mary Harney TD Minister for Health & Children, Department of Health & Children, Hawkins House Dublin 2 Re: Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010 Dear Minister, I am a mother of three sons, and currently expecting my fourth child. I … Continue reading
Posted in Cork, Eve Richards, Family, Ireland, Parenting, Skibbereen, West Cork
Tagged children, freedom of choice, harney, homebirth, kids, midwife, Nurses and Midwife Bill 2010
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Pigs and Solar Eclipses
I am going to tell you how Sunday’s solar eclipse in Cancer went: Our pigs managed to get out of the field they were fenced in. My husband had just put them in, and they were eating away, when our … Continue reading
Posted in Cork, Family, Saturn, Uncategorized, West Cork
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