Dreadful week. / myLot

Ireland

December 18, 2025 3:35pm CST

What an awful week. I always dread the week leading up to Christmas and all the fuss and blow that drags it down. And I’m useless at buying presents. No imagination. Furthermore, the 18th December is the anniversary of my forced repatriation to Ireland in 1971 when as a truculent teenager I was wrested from my African childhood idyl. Fifty four years ago today that was. And while I was in Manchester last week a cat betoiletted itself in my flower bed at the front of the house and the bulbs that I planted are sprouting through poo. However I found a book I’ve been looking for and was afraid that I’d thrown it out. I was fairly certain that I had not purposely off-loaded it to the charity shop because it’s in French, and I don’t get rid of French books - no a lot of call for such material in this mean little town. But I found it caught down the back of the bed so I’m rejoicing.

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Amber

@AmbiePam (108257)

• United States

17h

I’m glad you found your book. But I am sorry you were forced to move continents all those years ago. I can’t imagine how traumatic that was.

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RasmaSandra

@RasmaSandra (91935)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

17h

I hope that next week and Christmas finds you all jolly and happy, You think you had it tought when I was little my parents had a lot of Latvian friends so Christmas was expecially busy and like clockwork for about three Christmases when it got close about two weeks before the holiday I came down with all the chiclhood diseases like mumps and chicken pox etc, So there is mom all busy and invited to parties and having to decorate out apartment I am down for the count with high fever, Luckily I outgrew that,

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