Sailing around the World ( Christmas in Ireland )
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Sun 9 Jan 2011 15:50
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Monday 20th December,
Skipper had a slow start to the day, but had enough
energy to get himself into town for thje annual get together of Architects and
Planners
for a few drinks at 12.30 in the " Mutton Lane Inn
" and then onto the " Farm Gate " restaurant in the English Market.
This event was started by Roddy Hogan and Skipper
about 25 years ago and has always been a great day.
In the early days, we would keep going untill the
small hours of the following morning, But,but now we are all done by 7 pm
and have to be collected
and driven home,
However, this time, Skipper had to get to the Royal
Cork Y.C. as the mother " Gladys" was also having her annual christmas party
in the Y.C. This includes all her living children,
her granchildren, and great granchildren and at 94, she is still doing very well
for her age.
Again this is always a great event and everyone
loves this gathering.
Tuesday 21st. Skipper had to do some
buisness in town before heading off to " Adare Manor " hotel where he was
meeting Aileen and
joining Johnny and Mary horgan for a meal . We
stayed the night in one of the town houses at the manor before returning to cork
the following day.via killarney to visit Aileens
Mother,
Wednesday 22nd Shopping and the ourchase of
Food,
Thursday 23rd, Leah , johnny and Jamie
arrived from Dublin for the christmas, and skipper cooked dinner that
evening.
Friday 24 th skipper4 and Aileen had our
annual christmas lunch with the Glounthaune people, Tony and Niamh Fitzpatrick,
Fergus and
Gillian o Connell, Micheal and Mary Byrne, This
year it was held in the Golf club.
Saturday 25th Christmas Day, We rose early and went
to Mass in passage West, we had a late breckfast and skipper put on the turkey
and all the rest of the food, dinner took 5 hours to prepare and it all went
well.We ran a slide show of all the photo's of the trip and everyone enjoyed
Jamie
slowly dismantling the house. thats what young
children are for.
We had pauls dog and leah's dog , so these had to
be taken for long walks every day. so this kept us waddeling old crocks
form falling over from lack of exercise and too
much booze and food.
Monday 26th , Usually we would go to the races in
Limerick, but these were cancelled this year due to the frost and snow. We went
for
long walks instead.
Tuesday 27th ( skippers birthday ) more walks
and we went to Donal Mc Clement's house fro a roast beef dinner that
night, Ye will remember
Donal ( Fats ) who sailed on " A Lady " for 6
months.
More tomorrow,
Signed :- Stephen Hyde ( skipper
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