THE HUG Its wonderous what a hug can do. A hug can cheer you when you're blue. A hug can say !I love you so_ѝ, Or 'Gee! I hate to see you go._ѝ A hug says 'welcome back again!_ѝ 'Glad to see you; where've you been?_ѝ A hug can soothe a small…
My Favourite Hymn In Christ alone my hope is found He is my light, my strength, my song; This corner stone, this solid ground, Firm through the fiercest drought and storm. What heights of love, what depts of peace, When fears are stilled, when…
The fourth female in my life is our daughter, Valerie. I cannot find words adequate enough to fully express enough tanks due to her, for all she has been to her mother and me. I can think back to the time her primary school teacher told her she…
The next female in my life was Doreen, my girlfriend and subsequent wife. She was brought up with similar standards to mine and, even when we were dating, we both had a set time to be home at night, unless both our parents knew of any special event…
My book would not be complete without paying tribute to the four females who in their own way played such a large part in my life. First of all, I owe a great debt to my parents and, in particular, my mother who brought me up to know right from…
To a large extent, life is what you make it yourself. You can only get out of anything what you put into it and, in this respect, many young people today expect everything to be their right and that they should be receiving this and that benefit,…
In 1988, it was Ireland's turn to stage the international series and two greens were required to stage them. As very few clubs had two greens, we considered using two greens close by -Carrickfergus and Ulster Transport at Jordanstown. However,…
Once we were sure our family had no interest in taking over the post office or our shops, and that they had fully qualified themselves for much better things, we sold our shops and stepped down from having the post office, and settled for the joys…
Another memory of my childhood days was my time as a foundation member of the 78th Scout Troup, initially as a cub. Judge Johnston was the scout master assisted by Brian Rankin (a solicitor), whilst cub master was David Harrison (who had a cafթ in…
Some of the games we played were 'I packed my bag to go to Paris and in it put' The first person started selected an item, the next had to repeat what the first person said and add another item and so on. Anyone missing an item had to drop out of…
