It was Father Donnelly again, and I dare not tell you the parish or I’d be ‘for it’ – as we used to say.
Amadan turns
Fun Stuff
The eejit
A few weeks back, on the first day of Lent, a
Homeopathy
Dear Agnes,
In all other respects he is a normal child, well in mind and body and taking a healthy diet, but just recently, my Primary-School-aged son has developed an anxiety about attending our excellent local school.
Is there anything I can give him to overcome this problem?
Yours sincerely
Psi Chote
..for sleep comes dropping slow
There have been numerous occasions when I was unable to sleep while staying at a strange hotel far from home. The reasons were many.
Sky failure
They talk like automatons, persist like politicians in their given line of chat, regardless of your lack of interest, and withhold their own phone number and even name.
Yet they expect you to stop everything and to humour them on the phone. I did, a while.
Ideal Christmas Present
Twice round a roundabout -any roundabout – and my wife’s lost! Honestly, the number of times she’s been confounded by the various entrances and exits of local supermarkets! So I thought the ideal Christmas present for her was a car-based satellite navigation system.
Message in a Bottle
Dear Agnes,
My problem is in rather doubtful taste but if deemed unsuitable for publication, I’d hope you’d answer privately to my attached email address.
HCE and how to recognise it!
A number of my friends of long-standing on this site – Carmel, Sally, Jenny, Olwen, Irene, Jim, to name but a few – being aware of my recent bout of ill-health, have offered various prognoses and thankfully, a few tips, as well as copious words of support.