Category: Kin and Consequenes
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Episode 31 – Turf Wars: The Bogfather Rises..
Today I find myself deep in contemplation – well, stewing really – over the turf. Not just any turf – my turf. The sacred sod. The ancestral bog-claim. The small plot of land that has somehow become the stage for one man’s personal remake of Game of Thrones, except with more grunting and fewer dragons.…
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Episode 30 – The Man Who Mistook Ego for Integrity..
You know the type. Loud online, louder in life, always performing, always posing. He talks about loyalty but can’t spell it. Preaches family values then turns around and burns every bridge he crosses. Claims he’s a man of principle but folds faster than a paper napkin when the truth knocks on the door. That’s Bully…
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Episode 27 – Under the Will, Over the Line (A tale of turf, power plays and one baler too far)
There’s turf.And then there’s turf warfare. €450 bought me a hard-earned heap of dry turf. What it didn’t buy me?Access to the shed where we’ve always stored it.Because, as if by magic (or malice), the very same week the turf arrived, Faurel Hill’s resident gatekeeper rolled an old baler into the shed like a rusted…
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Episode 26 -The Turf War (No, Literally)
Saturday was one of those rare days when something actually went right. I got turf – real, solid, honest-to-goodness turf. I stacked it carefully in the garage, the way you do when you’re trying to keep things dry, neat and under your own control for once. A small act of self-respect, really. Turf in the…
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Episode 25 – This Blog Is My Therapy, My Record and a Bit of a Wild Ride
You ever find yourself living through something so ridiculous, so absurd, so heavy with drama that if you wrote it into a book, people would call it unrealistic? Yeah, that’s me right now. Family stuff.The kind of messy, jaw-dropping, greed-soaked nonsense you’d expect from a Netflix true crime doc or a high-stakes soap opera. Greed…
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Episode 23 – Executor? I Barely Know Her! (A Love Letter to Inaction and Silence)
When someone dies, they tell you, ‘Don’t worry, the executors will handle everything’. Oh, how young and naive I was. I pictured wise, responsible figures – clipboards in hand, decisive phone calls being made, maybe even a crisp suit or two. Instead, I got two people who couldn’t organize a sandwich, let alone an estate.(Unless…
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Episode 22 – Turf Wars at Faurel Hill – Breaking News..
Breaking News from the front lines of Faurel Hill: Today’s emergency turf delivery has been successfully secured… in the garage! (After the turf shed was declared a Jurassic Farm Equipment Preservation Zone, there was literally no other choice.) The heroic operation was swift, efficient and mildly dramatic. However tensions are already rising. Early reports suggest…
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Episode 19 -How to Train Your Bully – A Misfortunate Sibling’s Field Guide
Because some family trees grow twisted branches… Ah, family – the great institution where love, support and shared trauma are all bundled into one inherited mess. But what happens when your sibling is less ‘dear relative and more ‘dictator with delusions of grandeur’? Enter: the family narcissist. Or worse – the garden-variety bully with a…