Re: [acornlive] Fw: Irish weather.

ryan@anthonyryan.com (acornlive@dublinwriters.org)
Sun, 18 Jul 1999 12:23:28 +0200 

This is lovely, love. Two writers in the family, what'll the mother say, and
in the same week, I think I'll let you tell her. There was no one home all
day yesterday.


Love








At 17:25 14-07-99 -0700, you wrote:
>
>
>----------
>> The Irish sun tan.
>> I came to live in Canada at  the  age of 27 , The first summer I had a
>patch ..of skin
>> left but what was left had a tan. Ten years later I am like the mother
>hen
>> with the Irish visitor's,put on a hat get in the shade.
>> When they arrive it is during the evening but at this point sleepless for
>> 24 hours as Mary next door called over to say good bye with a bottle of
>> vodka and can you bring 6 bottles back was her question  of the night.
>She
>> didn't leave till 2 am and the flight was only at 8 am.Someone went out
>at
>> 4am to Rathmines for a curry.Which was eaten by the taxi man when he
>> arrived at 5.30 am to pick up 4 people and 7 suitcases.....the cases
>> heavier than the 4 drunks.
>> Taxi driver delighted at last to get everyone in the car ,three suitcases
>> in the boot and four on the laps,asked 'are yus emigrating'?
>> 'tell us the country that would have us and we'll go". 
>> 
>> 
>> They flight is just great the vodka is free but the eyes just won't stay
>> open.
>> 
>> When I get to the airport to meet them they are crying for the cup of
>tea,
>> we get home 40 minutes later and they are ready for a jar and to show the
>> gifts they have spent 6 months gathering. Beautiful stuff all thrown at
>you
>> at the one time.
>> 
>> Next moring,  
>> 
>> 
>> They are very good with the sun -screen only problem is that they want to
>> wear factor 2 while the rest of the Canadians are wearing factor 30 to
>100.
>> Early morning ,finds the whole house up and at the pool.By noon it is
>time
>> to open the duty free and bake in the sun.When you ask anyone to get in
>> some shade your told "sure I am only  burnt on one leg'. By dinner time
>at
>> seven they are ready for the bed and looking for cups of ta ,they hardy
>> ones last till midnight singing till they fall asleep ,as the eyes close
>> they are looking for ' hang sandwichas'.
>> Morning comes again and everybody is up , as it is a waste of time to
>rest
>> as we can sleep our heads off at home. 
>>  Frying pan ,chip pan and any pan that can fry comes out with the
>smuggled
>> in  Kearn's raschers sausages and where would you be without the pudding.
>> 
>> 
>>  I only wake as the smoke detectors are ringing .....  like the bells of
>> Christ Church. It was a great breakfest some one brought over a batch
>loaf
>> , another had bought before boarding the Brennens Bread .If you can't get
>> the Brennans sure you might as well stay at home. When we make the
>mistake
>> of suggesting 'sight seeing,fishing the Casino we are met with ' aren't
>we
>> grand where we are '?.
>> 
>> Would you like to see any part of Canada?
>> "We are sitting here looking at it" was mostly the answer.
>>   
>> 
>> My husband is very proud of his new country and couldn't let them sit in
>> the back garden  for two weeks so it was get in the cars and off we went
>to
>> see  Niagra Falls.
>> Which was a great success  at the time.
>> After we got home it was 'its great to be back,put on the kettle' .
>> 
>> The day before leaving is the saddest day, ' Did I buy anything for Gary
>> next door '
>> You know he took in the milk while I was gone"?.What about Sheila ?" her
>> young fella is on the drugs maybe I will buy him a t-shirt'  to cheer him
>
>> up'.  
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> They leave all pealing and multi-coloured ,full of all the cheap stuff
>> bought in Canada crying at the airport as we cry with them.
>> 
>>  Our hearts, are broken to see them go .We go home  and look at their 
>> presents to us  .Everything that was ever made in Ireland we own and
>> anything of value belongs to either family we were given 
>> We love them so ,we sit back and count the days till they come back
>again.
>> The sun-screen in the factor 2 bottle is really factor 50 so I  don't
>worry
>> till next year when I will have to buy new bottles  that way they will
>> never know why they are not getting sunburned after one day.I love them
>too
>> much to ever let them suffer.
>> 
>> .  
>> 
>> When I was 19 my husband- to- be and I went to Malta ,we didn't even know
>> where it was on the map.Told the Mammy all the lies about single rooms
>you
>> know yourself.We  met two Kerry men , when you meet a kerry man he claims
>> to own the county or else his father does,who is going to die in the
>> morning.The four of us lay in the sun till the skin dropped of us and
>went to the bars at night to get mad drunk and ease the pain.
>Nothing has changed.
>
>
>Carol Ryan.
>>   
>> 
>
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