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Saturday 21 November 2009 · Colours of Day · Christ Be Beside Me · Fill My House · Hail Redeemer Rosanna contributed a €2 coin to make up the €6 I put in the envelope. I missed the collection but diverted towards the basket after receiving communion where it lay at the foot of the altar and threw my envelope in. Fr. Paddy Larkin. A crash at the tabernacle after communion. Drove over at 19.10 for 19.30 mass. Checked the green diary after mass. E-mailed Silvia with the masses for next week. Got wet to the skin at Dromena cashel. Water dripping out of my golf Ping trousers. Wet all day afterwards despite attempts to dry out. Lunch in "Daisies" restaurant in Downpatrick. Lasagne, roasted sliced potato with skin on, rice, small pot of tea. £7.25 total. Paid with my MBNA card. The first thing we saw on the bus tour and field trip from Kilbroney Centre in Rostrevor was Goward dolmen at around 10.45. Visited ...
25 days ago
Wednesday 27 October 2009 Up soon after 7.00. Ate weetabix and milk and gave JJ a breakfast the same as mine. He drew and played in the White Elephant Lounge until the rest got up. I went back to bed for an hour or two. Got up before 10.00, made my bed, washed, dressed. Black shirt, black 44" slacks, black Calvin Klein socks, turquoise 3 Irish Open sleeveless pullover, black patent Clarks. Packed for golf. Leah, Kate and JJ went to Town. Rosanna went to golf. She scored 20 points for 12 holes playing in the Winter League. Alan Ratcliffe and I starting at 13.15 played the back 6, then 1, 2, 11, 12. He scored 60 i.e. 48 nett. I finished 4, 7, 6, 6 and scored 52 i.e. 43 nett. We let Shane Leathem and his friend through on 14/15. Alan bought coffee. I sweated even though I took off my cap and my sleeveless pullover. After Alan left I went out to the car for my bag and came back in and took a shower and changed my clothes before I set out for home. Put on clean ...
49 days ago
Saturday 3 October 2009 Dessie called for me at 8.30 and we were in time for morning prayer at the RE Congress in The Fairways. It involved a lot of singing. Peter McVerry SJ lectured a Jeremiad on economics. Anti-Capital? Round table at lunch on the connection between parish and RE in the school. Tall dark-haired woman from Cork with a happy face facilitated. There was a woman from Ballinhassig in the group at our table. She knew who I was talking about when I mentioned Liam P Deasy. I consumed soup and sandwiches and drank coffee and a glass of red for which I paid all the change in my purse ~ €5.40. Attended Tom Hamill’s workshop after lunch. Tom managed to annoy Dessie who was totally dismissive of Hamill throughout the day afterwards. Hamill had made a speech and a presentation to Cardinal Daly before lunch. The Cardinal’s 92nd birthday. Hamill headlined the year 2012 for some reason but his workshop from an ideological point of view was a sort of biblical rehash ...
64 days ago
Friday 18 September 2009 Up 4.30 but took no shower. Dressed as last night - underpants, black 44" slacks, black FootJoy socks, tan John Evan Chelsea boots, navy and blue vertically striped Polish shirt open-necked, grey small check Kartel 42" sports coat. Ate a packed breakfast in my room. Very sweet fruit juice, a croissant, two pieces of toasted biscuity bread with honey. Spilt some honey on the surface of the small table on which my case rested this past five days. Had washed face and finished packing. Doubts and paranoia in my mind when I went down into the lobby. Surely I had forgotten something? But I hardened my heart and did not return to look. Malachy Doyle had left the room before me so I had not the benefit of a second opinion! That kind of haunted worried feeling stayed with me all day until I opened my case at home around 17.00. The coach left San Vincenzo at 5.30. The usual panic over my passport. I lost it? I didn’t. But I panicked at least ...
109 days ago
Tuesday 4 August 2009 Up at 9.30 in depressed mood not looking forward to the day. Had intended to call on Mary Mag after the clinic but did not feel in form. 13.13 on Emmet’s scales. Had not eaten lunch. Emmet gave me a description of the effects of Swine flu. Respiratory failure possible in some cases. Got an injection of 25 mg of Risperdal Consta in the right "side" off Emmet at about 14.00 and arranged my next appointment for Friday 21 August at the same time. Left my card with Doctor’s appointment for 7 September with Emmett for a refix because I will be going to Italy on 6 September for 12 days. Was thinking of going to Conlon’s Food Hall in LWSC for an omelette but changed my mind. Good decision. Rosanna gave me chicken Kiev, baked beans in tomato sauce, and I also ate two microwaved medium sized potatoes peeled with butter and salt. The meal saw my stomach right for the first time in days. Rosanna had been in Town in the morning dealing with the ...
