Posts Tagged ‘children’

When I was a lad growing up in the suburb of black Calcutta, we used to pass the time in very odd ways. There is only so much to do when your locked in a vacancy, so we tried to make every summer evening count. When your heroes are Ricky the Dragon Steamboat and Face [...]

The Gaeltacht was a very long way from Dublin, a Gaeltacht that they hated and it had only been a week.  Seven days of bullying, rain, terrible meals and every minute longing for home. Their constant lateness for the first class of the day meant they had to take a short cut across a wet [...]

A while ago Ovak and I called into his mothers house. We went in the front door and heard her chatting with a friend and her young son.  Suddenly the child was led by the hand from the sitting room by his mother, he was trouserless and with what can only be described as an [...]