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

@fightingirish

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

I am so sorry for your loss

I'm so sorry for your loss fightingirish and yours too Annonymiss123.
Hope you'll be home soon and you too ismiseeire.

Thank you for the new thread LifeInAHamsterWheel.

@Annonymiss123 and @M0rT sincere condolences on your losses. It’s a very hard time to be processing grief

@LifeInAHamsterWheel thank you for the new thread and great title. A shibboleth for the countrymen and women

Also M0rT, I'm very sorry for your loss. Apologies, I seemed to skip a page there.

Thanks for all the condolences. I am ok mostly.
She was in her 90s and very ready to go herself.
Just Covid has made it harder like everything else.

Lol, just noticed the thread title now! Good choice.

May I join,
Sorry for the losses, so terrible. x

@justforthisnow

May I join, Sorry for the losses, so terrible. x

I'm not here long enough to welcome you as it would be a bit like the DIL welcoming someone into the MIL's house, but since I'm online, I'll just say hello. I won't make you tea.

That is welcome enough 😊

@fightingirish

Condolences on the loss of your Mam.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a h-anam dílis 🌷

I'm sorry for all posting on here about losing parents...so very sad for you all & lonelier in these isolating times...we'll give them the best send off when we are allowed to gather again.

@justforthisnow

That is welcome enough 😊

Oh sure come in anyway. Are you one of the Smiths at the hill? There was a lot of them in it?

@SionnachGlic

I'm sorry for all posting on here about losing parents...so very sad for you all & lonelier in these isolating times...we'll give them the best send off when we are allowed to gather again.

Two things that the Irish do well are commemorate the dead and party!!! Whenever I go, I want it to be a shindig in the church. Enough for there to be a letter sent to the Parish Priest.

@fightingirish I'm sorry for your loss. it is a really difficult time to lose someone special.
Happy Easter to everyone. I hope all ye abroad are doing okay missing family and friends is tough when you know restrictions are preventing the chance of hopping home.
I have the egg hunt set up for the morning.
Thanks for the new thread.

@justforthisnow One of the long timers will stick the kettle on in the morning.

[quote Emeraldshamrock]@justforthisnow One of the long timers will stick the kettle on in the morning. [/quote]
I can't do anything right.

@ismiseeire you weren't wrong. I'm here from thread 5 I think? So not a long timer either. Awh sure we'll stick the kettle on.

[quote Emeraldshamrock]@ismiseeire you weren't wrong. I'm here from thread 5 I think? So not a long timer either. Awh sure we'll stick the kettle on. [/quote]
Jaysis, have you not had a cup of tea yet? Here, don't be shy, come on in with me and we'll make a cup of tea. There's sandwiches there too. Salad, ham, ham and cheese, ham and tomato, salad, beef, egg and onion, salad, tuna, ham on its own, ham and salad. Help yourself now. Make yourself at home.

We've cocktail sausages due out now too. Don't go hungry.

[quote Emeraldshamrock]@ismiseeire you weren't wrong. I'm here from thread 5 I think? So not a long timer either. Awh sure we'll stick the kettle on. [/quote]
How has the calving gone this year? I see Murphy there has built almost a compound now around his land for the horses. Hah? Funny how the other half live whah? I see them driving around there now in mercs and brand new geeps. Whah? We're not good enough for them boys. Although, his wife dropped in the other day. She's a lovely woman.

[quote Emeraldshamrock]@fightingirish I'm sorry for your loss. it is a really difficult time to lose someone special.
Happy Easter to everyone. I hope all ye abroad are doing okay missing family and friends is tough when you know restrictions are preventing the chance of hopping home.
I have the egg hunt set up for the morning.
Thanks for the new thread.[/quote]
It's hard being away, but what can we do? God be with the days of buying easter eggs for dc. I feel like Peig Sayers at the moment lol.

Sorry to all who have lost someone and are grieving. Ní maith liom do bhrón. My df is in hospital at the moment, and it’s a torture not being able to be with him. He gets terribly confused at times and without his hearing aids is deaf as a post. With masks on everyone he doesn’t even know when the staff are talking to him sometimes and they’re inclined to think he’s being difficult. He’s hopeless at technology too and I often end up ringing 40 or 50 times before he remembers how to answer the phone. It’s terrible not being able to go to him.

@thelegohooverer

Sorry to all who have lost someone and are grieving. Ní maith liom do bhrón. My df is in hospital at the moment, and it’s a torture not being able to be with him. He gets terribly confused at times and without his hearing aids is deaf as a post. With masks on everyone he doesn’t even know when the staff are talking to him sometimes and they’re inclined to think he’s being difficult. He’s hopeless at technology too and I often end up ringing 40 or 50 times before he remembers how to answer the phone. It’s terrible not being able to go to him.

Ah God, that's almost cruelty. Your poor Dad must be so distressed. And you too. Is his eyesight good? Could you send him in those little missives? things which are prayers to different saints? A rosary beeds? Of course, I'm presuming that he's religious where he might well prefer a gong to medidate lol.

Could you write him a letter daily and drop that off with the nurses to give to him? Not sure how far away you are from him and whether you're near the hospital of course.