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Cailleach Oiche is Barbara Scully's online publication where she talks about getting older, the joy of being post menopausal, and other random stuff especially relating to animals and wildlife.
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The Tooth Fairy (opens the original)
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If you follow me on Instagram, you will be aware that we have family visiting from Australia at the moment – namely my eldest daughter, Carla and my two grandchildren, Emie and Max. It’s chaotic and noisy and energetic and wonderful. Most of the time our home consists of just me and him and our youngest, Mia whose work life takes her out of the house early in the morning and which means she is also early to bed. So, our home is quiet and reasonably ordered most of the time. However, I do think i
An unexpected Blissful Interlude (opens the original)
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This time last year we were basking in the glow of our new black kitten, Stevie Nyx who we adopted from Mullingar. Stevie Nyx is an independent, tiny, slinky midnight creature who brought our working total of cats back to four.As months rolled on, Stevie Nyx remained a very small, thin cat who moved more like poured liquid than a solid creature. When the time came to have her spayed, I phoned the vet and said I was worried that she was still very small. The vet suggested that I weigh her and if
DUN LAOGHAIRE (opens the original)
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Dun Laoghaire - a place I take for granted most of the time. It’s just where I am from.Dun Laoghaire – the much maligned grand dame of south Dublin. She is not ‘chi chi’ like Malahide on the northside, or indeed her little sister of Dalkey.No, Dún Laoghaire is and always has been a grittier place.Those of us who have grown up around the town, know that although her elegance may have faded somewhat, and her beauty scarred by some really awful modern architecture, she is still a town with a big he
BACK TO SCHOOL, GOD HELP YE (opens the original)
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Back in September 1991 I took my eldest, for her first day at school. She was just four years old. I don’t remember much about that momentous day, but I’m pretty sure she didn’t cry. And I don’t think I did either. Like her sisters who came after her, she had already spent some years in crèche, so they were all used to being abandoned to the care of others during the week.In June 2019 – almost three decades later – my youngest walked out of school for the last time, marking the end of a long, ar
September Reset (opens the original)
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So, after a year and a half of publishing my Substack newsletter, Cailleach Oiche, I have decided to make a wee change.Before I embarked on my One Woman Shows, I was a writer. Writing is something I have been doing since I was a child. I was actually a child poet! Seriously. I had notebooks of my desolate meanderings and musings… usually caused by the death of an animal or a having my heart broken by some boy. My poetry career never really took off. It was far too depressing.But that said, I hav
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