Churchill and me. / myLot

Ireland

March 25, 2024 4:08pm CST

It’s good to be home after being away. Of course I got a bit absent minded on the drive back and headed for our old home in Belfast rather than for our new home in Larne. Along the way we stopped off for lunch in Carnlough, at the Londonderry Arms hotel once owned by Winston Churchill. He keeps on cropping up in my life’s itinerary, does Churchill. He used to stay at my favourite hotel in Alexandria, Egypt, where some of his paintings still hang. We had a great lunch, watching the goings on at the harbour while a log fire warmed us. If I had known we’d been so close to the fire I’d have brought some wet underwear to dry in front of it - some of you will recognise the reference, others will think me quite mad. I noticed too that there is a residential watercolour workshop running soon - one for @sharonelton ? I wonder if that ties in with Churchill’s penchant for watercolours? Anyway I’m home.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (325966)

• Rockingham, Australia

26 Mar

It will be a while before you can totally forget about the wet underwear - if you ever do. And welcome home.

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Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (12607)

• Ireland

26 Mar

@judyev Good to get back to my own toilet.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (325966)

• Rockingham, Australia

27 Mar

@xFiacre And your own bed probably.

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Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (12607)

• Ireland

27 Mar

@JudyEv Oh yes. It’s so reassuring that no-one else has been shennaniganising in my bed, unlike hotel beds in which all manner of nonsense may take place.

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LindaOH

@LindaOHio (156488)

• United States

26 Mar

Glad that you arrived safe and sound. Yes, we all get the wet underwear reference!

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Amber

@AmbiePam (85604)

• United States

26 Mar

Someone exists that wouldn’t get the wet underwear reference? I’m aghast!

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Anna

@LadyDuck (458503)

• Switzerland

26 Mar

I think it was better that you did not know you would have been so close to the fire. You need to have some restaurants where you can still go in the future.