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Random Donkeys…
Yesterday I read: ‘I thought I might be left standing here like O’Donovan’s donkey’. I’d never heard that expression before. Mr Google told me: ‘To be left ‘like O’Donovan’s donkey’ is an old Anglo-Irish idiomatic phrase meaning to be left waiting endlessly, abandoned in a situation, or left ‘standing here like an idiot’. The phrase…
Needing New Windows
Our Men’s Shed, built a hundred years ago as a net drying shed for a local fisherman. needs new windows. Having been repaired and patched up many times they now need replacement. Yesterday we had the silly conversation – grandad jokes, window puns… those who are a real pain/pane… avoiding being framed… using a smashing…
Two Boys, a Cat, and a Church
This morning I was reading Isaiah… well-known ‘Christmas’ verses about the Messiah who will come – ‘A virgin will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel, God with us.’ ‘He will be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.’ Less well-known verses about Isaiah’s own son: ‘The Lord said…
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