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Crumbs, I hadn't planned on writing tonight but I have got a grating feeling that if I don't do something I'm going to blow! So my poor peeps your stuck with me :) Well as thhe title suggests, what a difference a day makes, exactly 24 hours ago, I was heading to bed, having enjoyed watching a couple of episodes from Haven season 1, accompanied with a large glass of wine. My only care in the world was that I was back at work tonight. But unfortunately, I received a call from my cousin this morning to tell my Dad that my uncle had died very unexpectedly last night. This came as a big shock to my dad, to look at him you wouldnt know it but I could see it in his eyes. My uncle Michael, is/was my dad's brother in law, who married my dads eldest sister. My aunt is someone my dad cares & loves very much, she hadn't had an easy life being the eldest of 10 children born in the early 1900s into a Catholic family in Northern Ireland. But she went on to marry Michael an...

My memories of September 11th 2001. I was 19, about to start my degree in History at the local university. But unlike many September 11th was never going to be an easy day for me. My story starts on September 5th, my uncle had died after a prolonged illness, which I hadn't been told the true extent of. I was at a loss, my uncle Lawrence, though I didn't see him often was always special to me and his death effected me greatly. After finding out he had died, my brother and I tried desperately to contact my parents who were on holiday in Ireland (naturally with their mobiles switched off) we finally managed to reach them in the early evening to try and arrange things and to find out more info about what we needed to do.  The next day, we found out that the funeral was to be held in Northern Ireland on September 12th, it was decided that my brother and I would fly out and meet my parents there. My sister drove my brother and I to the train station on September 10th, as we had...

Oh dear, I have really fallen behind, it's been almost a month since my last post, bad me (August is whacking me on the hand as I type). I have been slightly under the weather suffering the migraine from hell, even worse I have no meds when it hit :( , then went straight into a cold and ended with a 50 hour bout of insomnia last week, needless to day the 18 hours sleep on Friday / Saturday was much needed heaven :D Well to catch you up, I have just signed up to the aforementioned (see previous posts) creative writing course. I have to be honest I'm a bit nervous about it, I've never liked showing my work to peeps and cringe at compliments and take criticism to heart, but hey ho it's one of the reasons I'm doing it.  I hope to post some of my Rookie Blue fan fics on FanFiction.net once I get some confidence in my work and hopefully some original work on their sister site, I'll keep you posted if you fancy taking the time to read it. I haven't done much ...