Jul 20 2006
A china rat and a Bengal cat and a Bombay cockatoo
I’m back. And it a surprisingly good few days, considering the purpose and all. I guess the fact that Granny was 88 and had been in hospital for four years meant that it wasn’t a tragedy.
Tues we headed over for to the funeral home, and there were a lot of people. A lot. The removal to the church was supposed to happen at 8. I don’t think we left the funeral home til around nine because of all the people coming to pay their respects. Even some of the brothers’ cronies turned up. Proper old fashioned funeral behaviour that is.
Still even without the crowds of various unrelated people, the family would make up a crowd in and of itself. Granny was married at 22, and had 12 children. Six boys, Six girls. She has a sister still living, she’s 86 I think. And a brother who passed on when I was very young, I think it was back in ‘95. First dead body I ever saw. I only discovered this week that the reason he was called Brod was because he was the only brother in the family. There were another two girls in the family, but they both died in the fifties of TB.
So, 12 children, and 46 grandchildren. Plus in-laws and great-grandchildren, and neighbours and friends. We had 6 priests do the funeral mass. There was quite a gathering, and of course I knew everyone.[1] Well, we figured out the names of all the aunts and uncles eventually. But a lot of the cousins are very familiar looking so it is very easy to get them mixed up. Dark hair and tanned. Must be some Spanish Armada blood in there somewhere 
Talena tagged me in my absence:
- I am thinking about…
doing this meme
- I said…
Thanks. Just back from buying some milk and thats what I said after getting my change. - I want to…
win the lotto. Even a million would do the job nicely. On a more realistic note, I want to go to bed early tonight, not that I’m really tired or anything, but still. It’d be nice. - I wish…
Erm, to win the lotto. Am I repeating myself
And that tomorrow is sunny, but not too warm. Anthing around 20 to 23 degrees’d be grand. I’m not made for anything higher than that. And neither are Irish roads. The amount of melting squidgy tar I had to walk around while walking to the graveyard was unreal. - I hear…
Arthur McBride, from Planxty’s Live 2004 album. - I wonder…
will I get around to unpacking tonight. I’m guessing not. - I regret…
nothing really. I mean, everything that has happened has happened, and meant that other things happened, and changing one thing’d change something else. Unforseen alterations, and all that. - I am…
going to turn the light on soon. Which means I’ll have to get up and pull the curtains. Either that or be invaded by moths. Although, have to say, that is one of the good things about life in Dublin. Less insects than at home. The amount of moths and daddy-long-legs and flies and bluebottles and bees around at home was shudder-worthy. - I dance…
only when drunk - I sing…
when I’m winning. Or along with any number of songs. Also while drunk. - I cry…
rarely - I am not always…
as motivated as I could be[2] - I make with my hands…
Nothing recently. - I write…
On occasion. Fiction, and short stories. And web challenges - I confuse…
Other people with the power of my intellect! Or my errors in spelling. Bound to be one or the other. - I need…
A drink of water. But that’d involve getting up and going into the kitchen. And see above re my lack of motivation - And finally…
Superman was surprisingly entertaining and enjoyable. Also, never ever ever leave my brothers with any of the following: bullets, shell cases, fireworks, repeating banger type things, potassium, matches, anything containing gunpowder, etc, etc, etc
EDIT: Forgot to tag peoples, so on a totally random basis I’m nominating the following 5 bloggers:
- NineMoons to add to her collection of memes.
- Kelly, an excuse for her to blog again.
- Mal, I don’t think he has been tagged yet.
- Anne to distract her from the heat
- FM, just because.
- And of course anyone else who wants to play along
Tags: me, meme
