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Nov 20, 2009 1:35 pm
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This is the Cliff Walk from Bray Head through to Greystones. Not for the weak hearted! Its a very popular walk, beautiful in summer, but walking clubs use it all year round. I love Bray Head.
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FOTOFRIDAY - FAVOURITES
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Nov 20, 2009 10:41 am
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Im trying to remember just how old this photo is. This Scottie is only a half bred scottish terrier but he sure was noble. When I got married, aged 27, this was my first "child". We adored him, his name was Mike and he was sold cheap because he was a bit shy. When he arrived in our home he was only about 3 months old, probably was the runt of the litter, but he lived to a ripe old age and was thoroughly spoilt. Its such a long time ago, I remember the breeder came to the house to make sure we were "suitable" parents! He certainly thought so. I actually can remember taking this photo even that long ago, and I also remember the curtains on the window. Our first house, our first dog. Way to go Mike
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FOTOFRIDAY - FAVOURITES
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Nov 20, 2009 8:24 am
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Let us out to that mouse!!! Robbie, Gregor and Jessie watching the antics of a mouse who was feeding her young under the garden shed. She came in and out for almost an hour, going backwards and forwards with the food left for the birds. Such a diligent little mouse. Myself, my daughter Susan and our 3 four legged friends were very entertained. It was some time during the year, Im sure when exactly.
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FOTOFRIDAY - FAVOURITES
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Nov 20, 2009 8:10 am
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This is my first born daughter Helen, with her husbands dog Sable, who died 2 months ago from old age. He was a huge big cuddly bear, and himself and the cat, Steffi, used to sit on the couch together. Now Sable and Steffi are both gone to doggie and cat heaven. Helen is with Sable in this, my favourite picture, on her husbands boat which is moored in Co. Clare. They spend most of the summer week-ends on the boat. Her husband has a crew which includes his elderly father, and he takes part in the races. The two kids are already keen sailors!!!
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I HAVE TO LAUGH
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Nov 18, 2009 1:20 pm
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A month or two ago a member decided to take a break because of the "disagreements", "Dysharmony" and was back again in a week or two. A few pages of blogs followed saying "Dont go, you are my favourite blogger, philosopher, friend, comrade, honourable person on this site, we will miss you. Please stay" The person in question never went anywhere. 50Talland is back having had all the adulations posted his way. Im glad you got back 50Talland but Im wondering why people remove their profile or get banned and can come back again the next day. I would hate to be under the pressure that some people here have put themselves under.I was taken to task in the early days here because I was stupid enough, or should I say uninformed enough to say I couldnt put up with the chit and was thinking of leaving!!! I dont remember anyone holding a memorial service for me and what a loss I'd be to the site!!!! I have my head securely planted in place today and Im careful never to say I am leaving, but I do have a good little laugh to myself when I hear others are going for awhile as they cant put up with the way this place has turned out. Its just like a community of old people living together, except its in cyberworld. I havent been lucky enough to find a sister, but I have found my love, and that is a blessing for me. Sisterhood/brotherhood is alive and kicking in the Land of the Aged.
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A RUNNING STREAM - NATURAL ANTIDEPRESSANT!!!!
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Nov 18, 2009 12:12 pm
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I love this picture. It was taken in a beauty spot in Co.Wicklow. If Ireland had the Californian sunshine, it might turn out to be the most popular holiday resort in Western Europe! However, if we didnt have the constant rain, we would not be so green. Weather and costs send the tourists to other destinations. Northern Ireland is now becoming popular, after we have hopefully seen the last of the troubles, and the people up in the 6 counties deserve to get some holidaymakers and sightseers. Its a beautiful spot, as Teresa has already described very well. To have such beauty on your doorstep is a blessing.
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WHEN IN NEED OF A TONIC, I TURN TO ..........MUSIC.
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Nov 18, 2009 10:28 am
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I havent been feeling too good recently with flu like symptoms. Im not really good at being "out of action" as I am usually busy and active. I couldnt do anything ,but I kept pushing myself. Today is the first day ,since last Friday that I have felt a bit more human again. I spent today just listening to some of my favourite music which I have downloaded.Some are old favourites that I used to listen to when I was young, including The Trout Quintett(Schubert), The Robins Return, (my sister used to play this on the piano when we were only teenagers and I thought it was magic back then, and still do. More of my favourites are Catch the Wind (Dylan), Bette Midler, Roger Whittaker. Its amazing how music helps me to relax and gives me that "feel good feeling "again. Music has always been part of my life and I love a variety of music, even went back to the days of Marty Robbins, Marianne Faithfull, and I like Dr. Hook. For me, music is The Great Escape.
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IM LEARNING TO BE A SFF BITCH.
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Nov 11, 2009 1:21 pm
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If I see the word FUN on this blog page any more, I think I will throw up, literally. In my dictionary FUN means enjoyment or amusement. TO MAKE FUN OF means to mock or tease.
The Get-Together in St.Petes was fun, for some. Some people paid a high price. Tell me, how can a bitching week-end be fun? I dont think I would fit in particularly well, not because I wouldnt want to but because I never fit in well with groups of women anyway. Like Rosie, I prefer to be with a group of men. What about unconditional love.... we are all different. We have to try and accept that fact. Bonding between a big group of women isnt natural, it doesnt last. I find men more honest and outgoing. (Take a bow men). I would prefer to have a conversation any day with a man, rather than a woman, and theres nothing wrong with that. I know men who would prefer to chat to a woman, or women.
If someone doesnt feel comfortable trying to fit in and be what others want from them, well, why not
let them be themselves. I read that one member was discussed and it was decided that people at the Bash would go a bit easier on her in Blogland in future. Isnt she a lucky lady. I wonder how she will live up to the requirements of the majority. I wouldnt want to. Am I doing well being a bitch? I will have to practice a bit more. Im not perfect by any means, neither is anyone else, but Im at a loss to understand how people cant get along just for a few days.
I have just been watching The First Wives Club and had a good laugh at the 3 women involved, but I know I would have to work very long and hard on myself to be like them. I have worked very hard on myself over the years, a lot of things changed and my attitude to life changed, but I know where I fit in and where I dont. Im the first one to enjoy a good laugh, Im anything but serious, but I draw the line, for myself, when it comes to backbiting. I tried it and I just cant do it.
Today is Veterans Day. I wrote a blog this week on the unwinnable war in Afghanistan. That was my simple dedication to the soldiers from the UK, Northern Ireland and US. My two uncles died in the first world war and never came home, they are buried in France.
Maybe we should have an Armistace Day in SFF Blogland and Chat.
I dont think I fit in here all that well, I log-in for A BIT OF FUN!!!!! Its sadly lacking lately. So many people are gone. I dont blame them, Im not surprised.
We dont have FUN in Ireland, we have "a bit of craic," " a good laugh" anything but FUN. I will continue to have a bit of craic.
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THE SCOTTISH SOLDIER (And Afghanistan, the Unwinnable War)
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Nov 9, 2009 12:33 pm
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Last week I watched on BBC TV the very sad funeral of a young Scottish soldier who died in Afghanistan. His family were so dignified, sad, and courageous. We will never know what he experienced, what horrors he saw while in that foreign country, fighting for peace. During the last week 6 British Soldiers were killed,also 3 soldiers from Northern Ireland 201 altogether since the war began.
I heard the most beautiful rendering of the song "The Scottish Soldier" played by some pipers in kilts,and sung beautifully by a Scottish tenor, and it would reduce anyone to tears.I dedicate this to all the young men who died in Afghanistan. They are all heroes.
The Scottish soldier.
There was a soldier, a Scottish soldier, who wandered far away
and soldiered far away,
There was none bolder, with big broad shoulder, he fought in many a fight and fought and won.
He'd seen the glory and told his story, of battle glorious and deeds victorious
But now he's sighing, his heart is crying, to leave those green hills of Tyrol.
Because these green hills are not highland hills, or the island hills,
They're not my lands hills,
And fair as these green foreign hills may be, they are not the hills of home.
And now this soldier, this Scottish soldier,
who'd wandered far away and soldiered far away,
see's leaves are falling and death is calling,
And he will fade away in that far land.
So he called his piper, his trusty piper, and bade him sound a
lay, a pibroch sad to play
Upon a hillside, but Scottish hillside,
Not on those green hills of Tyrol.
And now the soldier, the Scottish soldier
will wander far no more, and soldier far no more,
And on a hillside, a Scottish hillside,
You'll hear a piper play his soldier home.
He'd seen the glory, and told his story,
Of battles glorious and deeds victorious,
The bugles cease now, he is at peace now,
Far from those green hills of Tyrol.
Because these green hills are not highland hills, or the island hills, They're not my lands hills
And fair as these green foreign hills may be
They are not the hills of home.
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HAVE YOU CHANGED SINCE YOU JOINED SFF, AND HOW?
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Nov 3, 2009 11:30 am
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I wonder about the members here in SFF. Do you think you have changed since you joined the site?
Some people have been here for 10 years or more, and I wonder if you, the members, hadnt joined SFF in the first instance, what would you be like now. Would you have changed in a different way,would you be a bit isolated, lonely, or does SFF have no effect on you at all.
Change is usually a good thing, in the real world, but can a person in cyber world or on a Social Networking site change because of being here and if so would it have any influence on your thinking or judgment when you have been here for some years. It has been known to change the very young, if they are not rescued in time. Being popular is very important to most young people, until they discover how unimportant it really is.
I have been here for over two years.
I am in a 12 step programme which encourages change, so over the past 25 years I have changed in my real life, quite a lot really, from the person I used to be 25 years ago.
I dont think a cyber site can bring about much change in a persons personality
Recently someone said that I had changed but not for the better.
That made me think about myself and if undue influences can be strong enough to encourage a person to be someone they are really not and if so, why. Do we honestly try to go along with the majority? Is it easier?
I was never one to follow the crowd, I was never part of any group of women. It probably did bother me a bit when I was young, but as I made my own way through life, I became more independent and was happy to be a bit of a loner, - I liked my own company at times and didnt want any intrusion. I can get along with women much better now, but it has always been a big problem. I think I create barriers. I came here with my own personality, and I feel I still am the same person. In the real world I have been described as a very private person. I wonder what other people feel about all this. Im really interested. I know men can feel left out of the crowd too, but do they have their own way of dealing with it. I know a man who never went out without his wife or family, and doesnt know how to socialize on his own, even to go for a pint.
My opinion is that for me, I am exactly who I am, I doubt if a cyber or social site can change me from the real person I have always been and the only changes I can make to myself are in my real life.
A lot of people joining social sites can be left vulnerable by the loss of a partner, husband/wife, divorce, and the self esteem and confidence might be gone for awhile. Encouraging words, no matter here or in your real life, can be just that, encouraging, and help to get you back functioning again, as has happened here, and as I learned from the sharing from members.
While I was looking at the pictures from the St.Petes Bash, I wondered, when I saw all the women getting on so well, would I truly have been happy there, even tho' I said I would love to have been part of it.
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