Tag: family
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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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Legacy in Fur and Fury: Heff…
Tonight, I’m sitting here with Heff. Heff is my late mother’s dog. He is now blind, diabetic and, let’s be honest, an honorary bastard of the highest order. A story in himself. He’s the kind of creature who, if he could talk, would tell you to get your hands off him, turn off the light…
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The Stranger at the Wake…
The Stranger at the Wake I’ve been thinking a lot about my son lately. The one I gave up for adoption when I was a teenager. The one my family told me never to bring around. ‘He’s just looking for money‘, they said (Bully!). Funny how people love to assign motives to others while keeping…
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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 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... 