Diary of a busyish woman

The Forbes quote today was: ' Have your own definition of success...so you can fulfill your dreams, not someone else's expectations of your dreams. Elliot Fletcher I read this quote & immediately saved it. Since then, I've looked at it, thought about it, applied it to our situation & to me, and then thought some more.  Let's get real here - if we have children, we have expectations. Be they right or wrong, in various ways, obvious and subtle, we do our best to have those expectations realised from their friends to the subject choices they make in secondary school, college choices, even down to our expectation for their personal lives and the type of person they choose to marry. Ideally, we would like them to be a 'chip off the old block'.  It's not going to happen! Even though when we see children and you'd know who they were before they spoke as they are so like a particular parent, currently all children are the product of two peo...

Today, I enjoyed a few words with Fionnuala Harken & we reminisced. She owned the Little Italy Restaurant in Clonakilty, known to all and sundry as Fionnuala's. In fact, I don't ever remember calling it anything else and in recent years, if I needed to explain where Ashe Street is in Clonaklty, all I had to do was say it's the street where Fionnuala's was. Everybody knew! Now it's the home of The Farm restaurant and we're thrilled to be a supplier. For both of us our lives have changed considerably since our first meeting. Fionnuala's was a great place to get superb pizza etc in the company of two small children. Now of course she gets to take proper breaks while Willie has just completed our production and delivery plan right up to the first week in January 2015! Driving home from Clonakilty, I thought of the many people who live in a tunnel. I know I'm probably not going to explain myself very well, but I'll try. Growing up, entering the Ci...