Diary of a busyish woman

Ladies Lunch Poster 2014 Yesterday, I found myself in a large room in Inchydoney Lodge Hotel & Spa with about 230 other ladies. Yes, I had arrived - I was now a Lady Who Lunches! In quick time, I realised that I was simply one of the majority who had booked/snatched yesterday as 'me' time to relax and enjoy that time with other ladies. Yes, we lunched & without doubt it was very leisurely, but even the occasion had an underlying motive & we were there with a definite purpose. It was a fundraiser & all in aid of Cork & Kerry Simon . Master of Ceremonies, the lovely Eileen Dunne , well known RTE newsreader , spoke and all listened as she urged us to dig deep in our pockets and ensured that the raffle moved along. The only other speaker was Charlie Fellowes of Cork Simon who spoke eloquently of the needs faced by the organisation to fund the huge number of people who are either homeless or on the brink throughout Ireland and Cork & Kerry are no...

I can't believe it's TWO weeks since I posted but on reflection, it's not surprising. The last weeks in December were absolutely hectic culminating in my 18 hour day on Tuesday, 23rd - this was a shocker for me when I actually added up my hours. I did manage to do a little bit of office work on 24th, but really I was present physically & on a mental shut down. We were supposed to be more than 4 for Christmas dinner, but that didn't pan out, so we spent most of the day from 8am church service catching up with each other and relaxing most of all. Yes, we enjoyed turkey and our own smoked ham, but we'd sold out of spiced beef & I didn't have time to make either a Christmas pudding or a cake so we did without. In fact as I hadn't been shopping, there was no cream in the house either & we were down to 3 onions! Early to bed on Christmas night and I actually didn't get up again until nearly noon St. Stephen's Day. The last time I ...