This is a song I sang at my Father’s funeral nearly 3 years ago, the English version is called Evening Prayer, it’s from the opera Hansel And Gretel. It means a lot to me as the night before he died he came upstairs and listened to me sing it, and later commented to my Mother [...]
Tomorrow represents the 3 year anniversary of my Dad’s death, and without trying to mark my return to blogging after the Leaving Cert with a depressing story, I feel this is due given the day. I was 14 when he died and just after finishing 2nd year, I still remember that day like it was [...]
It’s…it’s just…the LEAVING CERT… So, I’m just about a week in, I’ve done the papers for English, Irish and Maths, 6 in total(2 each) and tomorrow morning I sit my French Paper, followed by Biology on Thursday, then a few days off(with a 3-hour block class in the Academy on Saturday) before Chemistry next Tuesday, [...]
It’s 12:44 a.m. and I’m lying in bed, this time 9 hours I will be just a short bit into my English paper 1… You may remember my post about a month ago called ‘The oh shit factor’… excusing my profanities it was a valid sentiment at the time, now however, it’s more of an [...]