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Wondering does anyone believe in Angels?
23:02 Feb 29 2012
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Today would of been my stepfather's birthday, except he is dead. Well, at least he is thought of on his birthday. If my Angel see's this, I hope you will pass the message on. :)

22:26 Feb 28 2012
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I think we have had the mildest winter on record this year, and I can count the morning frosts on one hand which is very rare for where I live. Now Spring is in the air, and I love this time of year where there is new growth and the scent of flowers. Missed my winter photographs this year though! Can't wait for the clocks to go forward.

17:16 Feb 28 2012
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You have really overstepped the mark with me, and I am not even sure that I can be a friend any more as you always seem to want to take it beyond that point. I miss talking to you as a friend for the value of friendship, but that is all.

For the Rat.. The old and the new of my country.
15:37 Feb 27 2012
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All photographs are taken with my Samsung Galaxy mobile and taken in Game of Thrones settings with exception of the modern Peace Bridge. These are big files, but there is no other way to appreciate the scene. Sorry about the bit of burn out in the castle photograph. I will go back one day and do that one over again when the sun is shining on it instead of behind it. Now, get your rat's ass over here and get some real old building shots!

Downhill Castle









Downhill Castle Annex











In startling contrast from the old to new.. the Peace Bridge in Londonderry :)











All I have time to upload now.. have a meeting in Belfast at 5.30 so I gotta scoot. :)

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13:14 Feb 25 2012
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12:42 Feb 25 2012
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I decided sitting an exam would not be in my interest at the present time considering I lost so much time in and out of hospitial recently. I think, I lost around three weeks of study time, so I would be extremely disadvantaged to start with prior to sitting the examination. So, I have deferred it to the autumn sit. :)



I have had my second work out at the gym today after my medical procedure and I am still easily winded, but it was a big lung improvement from the first one. So, progress was made! I hope to get back to my fitness level within a month. I was only able to use a total of 8kg weights today. ;)

17:11 Feb 23 2012
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I am wondering why phobias should just suddenly develop? One day, the person is fine and the next panic attacks of having cotton wool pleats in the mouth at the dentist? Or, having no fear of getting into an elevator and then suddenly developing a fear for enclosed or confined spaces.. Why, should this happen.. Instead of being called claustrophobia it sounds more like freak-o-phobia! out the blue, wham, hits you in-between the eyes!

19:33 Feb 22 2012
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I noticed a 30 something female still wearing her, "Head Girl" badge from college! Well, I truly had to laugh at that but then I got to wonder how many people do stay in the past like that? Maybe being the Head Girl was her only achievement in life and being proud of it some fifteen years later is all she could hope to achieve?? I don't understand why some people get so stuck in the past, and don't push themselves to achieve better things in their life.



Me, I'll admit it.. I never was head girl or prefect material, god forbid! But I was Captain for Templar House and my gad did we blaze the sports field! We won the school cup three years in a row for the house :)



I have always been very competitive ever since.. Putting myself in doorways to earn success, and I think I have achieved and learned to a certain extent, but I certainly would not be wearing my house captain badge!

18:13 Feb 20 2012
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I only have another 100+ ratings to go before I make my 5%.. I wonder if I could ever bear to get it done! Le sigh, It's coming slowly.. seven years later lmao.

DA
18:12 Feb 17 2012
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I have a choice, stay here and study, or go to the theatre in Dublin to see, "DA" by Hugh Leonard tomorrow night. Drums fingers.. I think I know what is going to win!

DA!



Hugh Leonard’s hilarious comedy Da explores the relationship of Charlie, a successful playwright, with his adoptive father. In this semi-autobiographical play set in 1960s Dublin, we find Charlie in his childhood home just after Da’s funeral. While he sorts through his father’s things, he is visited by Da’s ghost, who stubbornly refuses to leave the house or his son's mind. As Charlie revisits his past, we get to share in the tender, frustrating and very funny moments that defined the complex relationship between father and son.



Winner of the 1978 Tony Award for Best Play, New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play, and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Play.



Directed by Toby Frow. Set and Costume Design by Ben Stones. Lighting Design by Paul Keogan. Music and Sound Design Denis Clohessy.



Cast includes: Ingrid Craigie, Stuart Graham, Rebecca Grimes, John Kavanagh, Deirdre Monaghan, Tadhg Murphy, Owen Roe, Stephen Swift

19:33 Feb 15 2012
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I have more environmental exams coming up soon, so I probably will just be doing fly-by's on VR for a while. Just enough time to do the honours and then off again.



Over the weekend though, I hope to get at least a hour to upload my photograhs of Glendalough in Co Wicklow that I took on our recent Valentines trip :) Ciao x

07:28 Feb 14 2012
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Happy Valentines to all :). I hope you have a special day remembering those you love, be it girlfriend, boyfriend, wife, husband, friends, or family :). It's good we have a day like this to honour all those that we love.



Hubby has taken me away for two days to Wicklow..we are staying in a lovely hotel in the wild Wicklow mountain region and today we are hoping to get some good photographs of the area which will include old round towers, churches and countryside. (weather and light permitting) I have my little Nikon with me, but he has brought down the entire regalia including his two Canons, lenses and tripod! (guess who will have to do the carrying whilst he shoots hrmmp) Should make for an interesting couple of days :)

21:17 Feb 13 2012
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I remember back in the 90's when Seaba said to me that she would love to come visit me and see Ireland. It was her dream to do that, and I am only sorry that she never got to realise her dream. We had many chats down the years, and in recent times she really appeared to be getting stronger and recovering from her illness.



She was a kind, gentle woman who had a great deal of graciousness and she will be sorely missed by all who loved her. Thank you Cancer for letting us know about her death.

Whoo Hooo!
15:22 Feb 12 2012
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Looks like we are off to Venice, the Greek Isles and Croatia this summer.. counting the weeks, it is exactly 16 weeks to go! Time to get the winter tyres burned off down the gym! Boxecise and weights here I come!

19:34 Feb 11 2012
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Earl Grey tea is so tasty.. He returned with a pack of it today for me as I seemed to develop a flavour for it when I was in England recently. The only thing missing was the Royal Albert china tea cups they laid on over there.. So my Bushmills whisky mug will have to do!

16:21 Feb 10 2012
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Someone said to me when I got out of hospital last night that I haven't thought of myself in a while. So when I was home I got around to thinking that maybe they are right,but it would of been selfish and vain of me to think that way particularly when so many people close to us have suffered the loss of loved ones recently. Their needs were greater than mines and I am quite happy to help and be there for those I love in time of need.



However I am beginning to think now that people I love are finding their own feet again that I could take a little time and get my girly things sorted out. Silly, but I am excited about going to get french gel nails and my eyebrows shaped, and tinted as well as my eyelashes this evening. Smiles.. well, why not.. I feel happy after the news I got yesterday :)

22:46 Feb 07 2012
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I just know I will be at this level forever, unless I get stuck into the database again..but then I already did so much for it in the past, that I don't know if I have the heart for it again.

18:50 Feb 05 2012
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A positive thing about hubby being overseas is that I can eat what I like! I got a chinese for tea tonight *YUM* salted chilli king prawns and fried rice, and lots and lots of chocolate after! *mental note* must remember to put the fish in the bin he had lined up for me tonight! chuckles..

17:37 Feb 04 2012
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Edel, and I stayed up chatting until 03.45 this morning.. we laughed when we seen the time because as most of us know when you get chatting with friends in a relaxed way you never seem to notice the time pass by! We both got four hour sleep as we were up with the kids this morning. They both are hurting so much over the recent death of their father.... for some reason it is hard to believe it has happened.

20:01 Feb 02 2012
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Wishing I could get out of this sugar kick.. It gets harder each time I revert back To eating more carbs than I need. I just can't seem to hang it up to dry this time around...

17:46 Feb 01 2012
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I remember this time last year... it was just as cold as it is now. I hope the snows come, but there again it would be good if they waited until after the funeral for my husbands brother. I can't understand why they should keep a body for so long in England before it is buried either.. here in Ireland we waked and buried in three days after death.