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Saddles Away!

by: Paul MalpasPosted on: May 5, 2022May 7, 2022

M y father was born into a family of comfortable farmers who had farmed in the Bredbury/Denton area of South east Manchester for the whole of the 19th century.  They had come out of a family of saddlers who had plyed their trade in the Poynton area of south Stockport […]

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Old Age

by: Paul MalpasPosted on: September 30, 2021

It is now almost eight weeks since I plighted my troth, eight weeks since I cut the nail and a piece of finger off my left index digit.  Although the arrangement I had with my Selene I thought could get no better both finger and arrangement have improved considerably.  First […]

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What Is It?

by: Paul MalpasPosted on: September 14, 2021September 16, 2021

Good morning and hello again.  It is nearly seven weeks since I last posted.  All of it taken up with preparation, actuality and recovery from my marriage to my beautiful Selene on 13th August 2021.  Some people might think in this modern age how stupid we were whereas others might […]

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Once A Catholic

by: Paul MalpasPosted on: June 1, 2021June 1, 2021

I am always amazed at the way the Catholic Church makes a fool of itself.  In its bid to have the Prime Minister of Britain amongst its faithful, it allowed itself  to be drawn  hook, line and sinker into allowing  a horrible piece of humanity into its midst. Now I […]

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Poor Phil Is Dead. “That Is No Country For Old Men”

by: Paul MalpasPosted on: April 10, 2021April 11, 2021

Well poor old Phil is dead.  He died yesterday 9th April 2021 two months short of his 100 years.  Would Lizzie have written to him then as is her want with centenarians or would she think she has said enough in their 74 year married life?  Do you know I […]

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Historic Boyle Part 2

by: Paul MalpasPosted on: February 17, 2021March 3, 2021

On my walk into town from our abode at the Wooden Bridge we have come to Shilling Hill, in the townland of Knocknashee, a reasonably modern area, with Boyle Abbey and Abbeytown Bridge on our left.  This road and roundabout area was  reconstructed about 30 years or more ago when […]

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Out of Darkness Into Loving Light

by: Paul MalpasPosted on: August 9, 2017

As most of you will know Helen my dear wife of nearly 44 years passed away on Christmas Day 2016 and what followed was six months of darkness, loneliness and absolute hell, poorly controlled by foreign travel to England, Malta, Morocco, France, Belgium and Italy.  Travel I thought might help […]

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A Trip To Malta

by: Paul MalpasPosted on: May 7, 2017

Helen, my wife, had died on Christmas Day 2016.  The late winter and early spring of 2017 were real hard days for me but by April the corona of light that signifies the end of the tunnel, the dispenser of gloom and despair was growing larger by the week.  Helen […]

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Helen Patricia Teresa Malpas nee Towey

by: Paul MalpasPosted on: April 10, 2017

She died at 5.30pm on Christmas Day 2016 in an isolated single room in the Women’s Medical Ward of Sligo Hospital.  43 years and 252 days after our “I wills” were said on St Patrick’s Day 1973.  43 years and252 days of hard work, six kids, much happiness, some sadness, […]

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A 21st Century Comedy of Errors

by: Paul MalpasPosted on: July 20, 2016

The main players in this incident packed story are Dr Kathleen Finan, medical consultant at Sligo General Hospital, Dr Una Clyne, urological consultant at Sligo General Hospital and Dr Kilian Walsh, urological consultant at Galway University Hospital.  There are two separate scenes, Sligo University Hospital ( now referred by SGH) […]

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