Unlocking Ireland - thread uimhir a seacht!

[LifeInAHamsterWheel]

A shiny new thread for us all to talk pure shite whilst we wait for lockdown to end

Happy Easter everyone!

Go raibh maith agat, a Life!

Settles into new thread

Happy Easter from wales! I'm from Navan, would give my legs to be able to go home... so very homesick, my mammy passed away a few weeks ago and I just want to go home x

Thanks Life

@ismiseeire

He is from North London.

We met in work in London in the late 80's

He is truly a legend in his own lunchtime, at what he does.

His current company develop software (natch) and test it and test it and test it and then the UK MD generally says, has any let Mr Finally Fluid loose on it.

They do and he will find bugs and glitches that the software developers either never found or tried to cover up.

Oh @fightingirish I'm so sorry for your loss Please god you'll be able to get home soon.

@fightingirish

Huge sympathies, I lost my closest cousin 55 and an uncle in the space of four weeks, if I have to do another funeral via a HDMI cable I will lose my Sh*t.

We flew through the last thread.

fightingirish sorry to hear about your Mam

I had lunch in the garden trying to ignore the weeds sprouting up in the cracks in my ancient patio and sat out for a few hours. More of this fab weather please. Although I think we're due some wintry showers on Easter Monday.

I may have started on the Easter eggs.

Thanks so much, have to agree the watching online of funeral was the most detached thing ever, thankfully the Irish embassy helped me get home, but dh and kids couldn't, but thankfully she didn't suffer and it was very quick, I suppose thank god for small mercy's, I'm just afraid home won't be home anymore without mammy there,

@fightingirish
My deepest sympathy to you. That's so hard that you can't come home.
Thank you for the new thread Lifeinahamsterwheel.

@fightingirish my condolences to you

Thanks for the new thread life

I'm so sorry to hear that FightingIrish, I hope you can get home in the next few months.

Will be going home soon please god! I'm running out of dairy gold have to do the essential trip home!

@fightingirish I am so sorry to hear about your mum. So hard at any time, but particularly at the moment.

Thanks for the thread nua @LifeInAHamsterWheel

fightingirish so sorry for your loss.

I'm glad the embassy was able to get you home. They can be good that way.

Bravo to the Irish Embassy.

I live in mortal fear of my mother dying before this is over,.

Our relationship has been difficult, or rather it was until I realised about ten years ago that she spent my whole life trying to control me.

I issued an ultimatum and with a few false starts we have a decent working relationship, so I would struggle with her dying anyway but would be harder if I couldn't go home.

So your Irish Embassy post has removed a level of anxiety I didn't know I had, if that makes sense.

So thank you for that.

@fightingirish I’m very sorry for the loss of your mammy. My dad died suddenly before Christmas and we consider or family very lucky that the rule of 25 allowed all the family|\grandchildren\his siblings to be at the Mass. We all live close enough that we could attend.

Still seems very surreal though. 😢

I spent most of the eighties in England with hardly any money, but I had a credit card if I had to rush home. A return ticket cost a fortune, but if we flew on the British Midland flight in the afternoon we had scones with clotted cream and posh jam, with real cutlery. A whole other world.
This last year is unbelievably hard, especially for funerals and families. Hard to believe it's a second Easter.
DHS brother is in Switzerland and has just had a second lot of surgery, his wife and kids are there but nobody can visit.
Ah well...

Anseo!

I missed a lot of craic on the old thread! Thanks for the new one, life.

@fightingirish I'm so sorry for your loss. It's so hard to be away from your family.

Sorry for your loss too @Annonymiss123. The first year is the hardest.

@fightingirish Very sorry to hear of your loss. Awful.

[quote FinallyFluid]@ismiseeire

He is from North London.

We met in work in London in the late 80's

He is truly a legend in his own lunchtime, at what he does.

His current company develop software (natch) and test it and test it and test it and then the UK MD generally says, has any let Mr Finally Fluid loose on it.

They do and he will find bugs and glitches that the software developers either never found or tried to cover up.[/quote]
DD's godmother does similar. Paid very bloody well!

Hard to believe it's a second Easter it really is. Last year was the first time ever we didn't spend with my in-laws. The kids were so upset so I got them both expensive presents and hid them as the prize for a big treasure hunt (sort of like an egg hunt but no eggs!) They loved it. I'm not very creative so coming up with all the clues and hiding them etc was quite out of my comfort zone. This year they've got an egg each and that's it. They're disgusted!! That's the difference between lockdown #1 and lockdown #72 or whatever we're at now

I'm quite unwell at the moment and I just want to be home. To be grieving alone far away must be so hard. Are you in the UK @fightingirish or further abroad as we'd say?

Was your Mum old fightingirish?