UNDER THE WILL… OVER THE DRAMA…

Category: Kin and Consequenes

  • Episode 56 – Bully’s Big Reveal…

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    Bully’s Big Reveal – Dementia Diagnosis & the Disappearing Act They say a crisis reveals character. Well, when Dad was diagnosed with dementia, Bully didn’t just show his true colours, he rolled out the whole flag. Red: for rage when things didn’t go his way. Yellow: for cowardice (not a confrontation in sight). Green: for…

  • Episode 55 – The Day The Spuds Spoke the Truth..

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    The Day the Spuds Spoke the Truth – (aka: A Casual Encounter at the Vegetable Section) You know those moments when life delivers a truth bomb wrapped in clingfilm and small talk? Yeah. That was me, aisle four, picking up a bag of spuds when I bumped into Bully’s sister-in-law. I expected a bit of…

  • Episode 54 – Fresh Tarmac & Familiar Tire Tracks.

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    Fresh Tarmac & Familiar Tire Tracks Or: How Bully Yates Marks His Territory I bumped into a childhood friend today, someone I hadn’t seen in years. We laughed, we caught up and then we landed, as these things tend to go, on him. Yes, our favorite walking caution sign: Bully Yates. Turns out, it wasn’t…

  • Episode 53 – Another Year, Another Bird…

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    Another Year, Another Bird: The Shit Show Continues.. You know you’re living a charmed life when a sparrow drops a little ‘blessing’ on you… again. And not just once. Not twice. Not even three times. No, no this marks ten solid years of avian assault. At this stage, I’m convinced the local bird population holds…

  • Episode 52 – Heff & Huff

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    Heff, Hutt & the Inheritance of Dog Biscuits After Dad passed, the will was read, the turf was turned and the drama rolled in faster than a storm over Faurel Hill. But you know what no one fought over?The dogs. That’s right. Heff and Hutt. Dad’s loyal sidekicks, his four-legged farmhands (and before that my…

  • Episode 51 – NPC’s

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    NPCs at the Reading of the Will: When Real Life Runs on Bad Dialogue Trees Some people show up to life like they’re straight out of a poorly coded video game – not the kind you’d choose to play but the kind you accidentally click on and can’t escape. Their dialogue options are limited, their…

  • Episode 50 -Earth School…

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    Earth School: The Characters Who Teach Whether You Like It or Not or did I Cast These People or Was I Set Up? They say we choose our soul family before we’re born – that before we land on Earth, we sit around in some cosmic café, planning our lives over herbal tea and smugness.…

  • Episode 49 – Power Moves & Pickup Trucks…

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    Power Moves & Pickup Trucks: When the Drama Drives Itself… There I was, sipping tea and minding my own business, when the unmistakable rumble of ego on four wheels rolled into view. Bully had arrived – not with words, or grace or anything resembling decency – but with chrome, horsepower and the smug silence of…

  • Episode 48 – The Soul Contract Nobody Warned Me About..

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    The Soul Contract Nobody Warned Me About Or: Who Signed Me Up for Bully & Fanny?! Long before I set foot (or boot) on this turf, I apparently had a meeting. A cosmic, high-vibrational, incense-filled kind of meeting. Picture it: velvet robes, lots of knowing nods and probably a harp playing softly in the background.…

  • Episode 47 – Bully Discovers Email..

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    Bully Discovers Email (and promptly ignores it)from the archives of ‘Under the Will, Over the Drama‘. Once upon a time, in a lush land of inherited turf, tangled wills and passive-aggressive WhatsApps, there lived a man known only as Bully. A man of few words, mostly because he refuses to reply to any form of…