Mementos - Snapshots of Life
Tuesday night was the chart night!
It represents problems being solved
I remember we used to go picking the wild strawberries
You might be very quick to say something but when you have a pen in your hand and you are writing something...
I have done the marathon three times in Cork now
Now you see, we’ve got… our own language. Traveller’s Cant. Cant is different than English.
My grandmother gave me this one. To me it means family... thinking what I went through...
This is my angel. My daughter gave it to me.
First thing I reach for in the morning...
I seen my brother going away in a white coffin... I was five... and I knew it was my brother in the coffin…
Mobile phones have changed things. When I met my ex-wife first it was 1980. She gave me her address...
Star Trek is just nostalgic to me!
We were about 14 years of age and I was up there in the woods in Shanakiel...
I taught myself to play, just listening to songs
He picked 12 of us to go learn and we would have a free house for that time
My mother had 19 children, well 24 actually, but a lot of them died. She was pregnant…
We met on Facebook. I am going to take it slow now at my age though!
I listen and remember how I live my life influences the people around me
I play them off the legs, I even play them against my head sometimes!
I was in school and I was only five years of age… it was an old part of the school and I was alone…
If anything is alive, it can talk. That is my belief about nature...
He is the only one that whistles... they say he is the lucky one
They are a hobby for me
Had my first cigarette when I was 7...
It just makes me relax. It clears my mind, it does. The nature starts me off…
Art means everything to me. It stayed with me all my life. oh when I paint...
I have two birthdays. When I left they gave me the 1st August and then on the other records...
I was a stable boy and they were very posh people! It took nearly two weeks before I was let near the house...
My grandfather taught me how to do it… it’s Pictish art work
I have Padre Pio in my bedroom...
What happened to her when she died was we burnt the caravan
I ran away from the orphanage when I was just 7 years of age but I didnt get far...
Dont ever pick up a comb because the Banshee will be around
The happiest time of my life ever was whenever I spent time with them
When I was about 11 going on 12 I remember Mum doing this embroidery. The different needles and threads...
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