Apr29

Easter Hols!

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Got back on Friday after a glorious four days in Dublin, our home town. The weather was ideal but the show stealer for me and Lucy and mum and Michelle was the last night at Barre and Joyces’. Barre is one of Jonnie’s brothers and we always get a tremendous welcome when we visit their home. Roast lamb, gravy, the works was laid on for all eight of us. We need a team when we go on holidays so after our own four, there was Ana to look after the kids, Michelle to assist me with meals and Lucy for my showers and dressing. Mum came along for the fun and we practically had to wrench the song book from her hand when leaving! After walking their two dogs around the park [kids holiday high light ] we spent the rest of the evening in musical bliss! Everybody had a go at singing, Ana sang amazingly in spanish and Michael entertained us singing and playing piano and guitar so beautifully I thought I was in heaven. Mum did a rendition of ‘the spinning wheel ‘ and Kitty sang ‘teidi beag’ in irish so sweetly I was proud! It took a lot of coaxing to get Rowan to play the wooden whistle he bought at the zoo the previous day. But when he played his version of ‘Pompeii’ we were all delira!

Apr10

Lovely Ciara

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A good pal of mine passed away recently. I met her along with my other Kinsale friends at the infamous mother and toddler group every Thursday morning. Ciara was a bundle of fun with two smallies, older girl and younger boy who she loved to bits. A crop of long curly auburn locks defined her face. Along with a great sense of fashion, she didn’t let life get in the way of her having fun. Really sociable and outgoing and friendly too and always up for a night on the tiles! A great friend to us all and totally devoted to her husband & kids. She soldiered on even when she got her devastating news about breast cancer. She wouldn’t let anything stop her from living life to the full. Even when it kept coming back she travelled north and south of the globe and didn’t hold back. When I saw her last summer on her holidays here we decided to send our photos to John of god in Brazil. She had moved to Bristol the previous year for her husband’s job. I didn’t get around to sending my own photo till last month to the great healing man in south America. So I text her to tell her this and asked if she would do same. That was Thursday and she died peacefully on Saturday evening. Ciara Langmaid Heart of gold Rest in peace