In serious Mourning for St Paddy'sWe are in mourning for St Paddy's! Especially me! There were a couple of local visitors in the Apartment tonight and we were showing them images of home - amongst those images were the Slemish pics of a few years in a row. Toraigh and Dara were asking if they could go up the next time - unfortunately that will have to be 2008. No Irish Stew, Guinness, music, honey roasted ham... Aidan Short falling out of his wheel chair and Sheamy Murph talking the leg off the table - Marty Max doing Ti Chee, and Micheal and Vinny talking real sense. Ah man! What I would give for the prospect of a St Paddy's hangover! Anyhow, I hope the sun shines and the uisce beatha flows in equal
measure. Hope to hear how it all wentHello Sheamey, good to see you are still out there. I have decided not to use a Ghandi quote as it is too easy. Beyond that, Ghandi is not very popular in Bengal and Kolkatta. A legacy of the whole partition issues with Bangladesh former East Pakistan. I am using the Bobby Sands quote, 'Our victory will be the laughter of our children'. It will be written in English and Bengali. I will accompany this with a quote from a local Bengali poet possibly Rabinandrath Tagore. Have not decided which quote to use yet but I will let you know.
Beyond that bring me back a rock from the top of Slemish or I'll put a curse on yous that'll make the potato famine look like a Sunday Regatta.
The images are of the clay base on the double helix sculpture, with the first faces being sculpted. Also a craftsman at work plus a wee boy who wants to be on TV.
There has been a city wide strike over here after the police shot dead 15 farm workers and wounded loads more. The entire city came to a complete stop in protest. The Naxalits (could be spelt wrong) a Maoist group attacked a police station in central India and shot dead at least 50 police men in a completely unconnected incident. They don't mess around in this place. Will be in touch soon. Good luck , Raymie.
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Hello Everybody, it's Gran Uncle Wab and Jenny Keeping up with your latest info. Gran sends her love. Wab says hes looking foward to a pint of guniness in the House of McDonnell. Jenny says hi. Can't wait til yous get home. Love and best wishes. Wab Gran and Jen xoxo
ello mcwatsons there wasnt dat much craic in belfast i got voted down by daughter power over slemish...done some gardening and joined the cast of 10,000maniacs at kellys after 9...billy jones from newry who gave me my 1st drum was there..so we climbed a different one(mountain) michi..dubh weighed in after not bothering his arse to get up for slemish... and was in good form ...for my part i used my blunt instrument on a few ears... love to all!.......by de way ernesto its our 'revenge'shall be the laughter of our children not our victory...just in case some jealous polemicist is reading this back in hanoi... love har har
Hi ya - Sorry to read your missing St. Paddy's so much.
I'm sure you's are having a much better experience over there - and there will be lots of other St. Paddy's days when yous get back home.
But meanwhile, we all enjoyed the parades and the lovely cool black Guinness - can you taste it??
Pauline
hey just wanted to say a big Happy Birthday to Dara. happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you happy Birthday dear Dara Happy birthday to you. Just think were singing this in our lovely voices. Only joking Lots of love the Keats and Fayes. Just think you can say every year i celebrated my eighth birthday in India xoxoxoxoxoxo
Hi Raymond!
I´m sorry about the incidents and deaths, it´s very disagreeable for your daughters too. I did hear about the accident of train in India...
I hope that your intentions in India are going well. How is the project with the children?
Hope to hear from you soon!
Good luck
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