Archive for February, 2009
On the road again
Saturday, February 28th, 2009
So, after a Christmas at home with family and two months of successful fundraising, I’m on the road again to Lesotho. I’m in Dublin airport now about to leave for Zurich. This time tomorrow I’ll be touching down in Johannesburg at 32 degrees celsius….different.
I haven’t written in a while but expect some updates from me [...]
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“It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.” – French Proverb
Friday, February 27th, 2009
There’s never a dull week really but this one seems to become more interesting as it goes along.
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The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. ~Nikolai Lenin
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
For once I do not disagree with celebrity and before the news of Jade Goody’s cancer being terminal, I didn’t think I would say that.
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. – Plato
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Could you do it? If it came down to protecting your child from prison could you lie for them? That was the dilemma for Janette Mercer.
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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. ~Benjamin Spock
Monday, February 16th, 2009
The world of Alfie Patten may never be the same again. The pictures of the 13 year old may look like he is cradling his baby sister,but yet it is his daughter or at least that is what we were told last week.
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The Lighter Side
Sunday, February 15th, 2009
To the Lighter Side we go, with some stories to take the seriousness out of the week.
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“Real loss only occurs when you lose something that you love more than yourself”
Monday, February 9th, 2009
171 people have died in bushfires in Southeast Australia, one of the more shocking theories is that some of the fires were started by arsonists.
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First Impressions last?
Saturday, February 7th, 2009
Since we live in a world of sound bytes, where a slip of the tongue can cause great offence, I wonder how much people value first impressions?
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Oh! the snow, the beautiful snow, Filling the sky and earth below, Over the housetops, over the street, Over the heads of the people you meet. Dancing, Flirting, Skimming along. – J.W. (Joseph Warren) Watson
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
There is something about living in Ireland that results in us not handling the weather very well. I mean this in a positive and negative way.
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