Dear Teacher, I'm writing this down because if I try to say it to you in person, I'll cry (I cry very easily) and I'll mortify myself and mortify you, and my child will never speak to me again for all the mortification, and with all that going on, I won't get to say what I really ...
Month: June 2019
Tell them the one about the fish
It was eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, and we'd been chatting to and entertained by our hosts, Jean and Dónal, for about an hour at that stage. We'd only met Dónal that morning but we'd meet Jean two days earlier when we'd arrived in her Airbnb in Ballybunion. She had welcomed us like old friends, although having ...