Category: Kin and Consequenes
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Episode 66 – Close Contact, Convenient Excuse…
The family that claimed close contact – but kept their distance just fine. Ah, the pandemic. A time for reflection, banana bread, and discovering just how far people would go to avoid pulling their weight. Some families grew closer during lock-down. Mine? They discovered a goldmine of excuses that even the CDC would struggle to…
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Episode 65 -Bully’s Play…
Bully’s Play: How I Pulled One Over and Took Center Stage at the Wake… Oh, you thought you had this family drama figured out? Cute. While you were busy playing the victim, stuck in your sad little world, I was working the angles. Quietly. Smoothly. Like the puppet master I am. Three years, I say.…
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Episode 64 -Broadband and Bullies: A Lock-down Memory…
It was early 2020. The world was going into lock-down, banana bread was trending and I was outside trying to catch a bit of peace when he emerged. Let’s call him Bully. Because, well… you know. He marched out like a storm cloud in sensible shoes – the farmer kind and launched into a tirade…
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Episode – 63 The Will Whisperers…
Masters of the Side Chat, Destroyers of Transparency. Every family has them. They don’t shout. They don’t slam doors. They don’t leave paper trails. They just whisper… and somehow, everything tilts their way. Meet the Will Whisperers: The quietly powerful manipulators of inheritance drama. Their Natural Habitat: Hallway corners during wakes. Kitchens where the tea’s…
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Episode 62 – Friday Night Lights… and Gaslights…
Under the Will, Over the Drama – A Bulky Tale… Once upon a Friday night, in the land of late-night chipper runs and family duty rotas, my other brother Saul was on his usual noble quest: Friday Night with Dad. He arrived armed with battered sausages, curry chips and a salt-and-vinegar sword – a true…
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Episode 61 – The Great Sewing Machine Heist…
The Great Sewing Machine Heist (and Other Paranormal Events at Faurel Hill)… Sometimes I wonder if Faurel Hill isn’t actually in Ireland but in some twisted alternate universe where the laws of logic and decency – have packed up and left. Shortly after Dad passed, I decided to make curtains. A wholesome domestic impulse, right?…
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Episode 60 – The Price of Bread and the Cost of Dignity…
‘If you don’t provide receipts for the money supplied for food and household items, we’ll be taking over the shopping next week.’ That was it. No greeting. No question. No interest in how anyone was managing. Just an instruction. A quiet little power move slipped into my phone like a landmine in my pocket. On…
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Episode 59 -Bully’s Weekly Horoscope…
Bully’s Star-sign: When Virgo Goes Rogue Because when Mercury meets Martyrdom, things get messy. This Week’s Horoscope for Bully Yates :(Sun in Virgo, Moon in Manipulation) The stars say: It’s a great time to ignore emails while claiming moral high ground. Your need to nitpick will peak midweek, especially over things you didn’t build, buy…
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Episode 58 – An Idiot’s Guide to Identifying Evil Relatives (Without a Priest)…
It’s a well-documented phenomenon in certain bloodlines and mine’s no exception – that one poor sod is born rotten to the core. Not a lovable rogue. Not a harmless gobshite. No, this one’s a proper, Grade-A certified b*****d. In our house, we affectionately call him Bully. Now, you might be thinking ‘Every family’s got one‘.…
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Episode 57 – The Long Con: Nurse Fanny and Bully’s Big Score…
The Long Con: Nurse Fanny and Bully’s Big Score ‘Or’ How Two Adult Siblings Outsmarted the Naïve and Overwhelmed(But Only For a While). You know what they say, hindsight is 20/20. But in our case, hindsight had prescription bifocals, a flashlight and still missed the plot entirely. It wasn’t until my brother Saul and I…
UNDER THE WILL... OVER THE DRAMA... 