Sean's Space

Saturday 29 August 2015

Robert Duffy using a cherry picker hired for the day topped some of the big green trees at the back of the house and felled most of the ivy clad silver birch which had grown to a great height over the past 47 years.  Aisling returned from her break in Sligo and Clare with Teagan.  A Marist small of stature with a flowing white beard and white locks celebrated 19:30 mass and finished off with Hail Queen of Heaven which the congregation joined in on with gusto.  He is a slow deliberate speaker with very correct enunciation.  His sermon was good but the pace of his speech and his voice pattern became boring in the end.  I gave €5 “to the priest.”  Received the sign of peace from Paddy O’Toole but forgot to sympathise with him on the death of his brother in Enistymon a place Aisling stayed in for the past few days.  Activated my new UB Mastercard in Ballymascanlon service station after mass buying milk, bread, chocolate biscuits.  Withdrew €50 from the ATM there as well.  Journalled a.m.  Wales defeated Ireland 10 – 16.  A challenge match in preparation for the World Cup.  Paul O’Connell’s last match in the Aviva.  Eleanor sat in my Parker Knoll in the early afternoon and watched the tree “trimming.”  I went to bed before 23:00 feeling tired and sluggish and apprehensive about golf tomorrow.  I drove over to mass this evening.  I forget what I ate today.  Much the same as yesterday, I think, with chicken and ham instead of mackeral.