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Thursday 01 February 2007
"Maybe they think I'm half cracked and daft but that doesn't matter, I'll still smile anyway."
Friday 02 February 2007
"We didn't come from a rich family, so it was really only boyhood pipe dream."
Monday 05 February 2007
"I just started hearing something in the waves. I could hear an African Acapella choir in the waves. "
Tuesday 06 February 2007
"It was an all encompassing look. She looked through me and saw everything about me."
Wednesday 07 February 2007
"The first person that I could see was the most beautiful girl that I had ever set my eyes on."
Thursday 08 February 2007
"Sitting in the Great Hall had struck a cord with me...I hadn't done too badly for a wee fella that failed the 11 Plus."
Friday 09 February 2007
"I was totally sceptical; I only did it to please him more than anything else, especially when I discovered on the Friday evening that we were going to walk on burning coals."
Monday 12 February 2007
"I remember trudging the streets with two or three pals hoping to get Lisburn changed into a nuclear-free zone!"
Tuesday 13 February 2007
"Suddenly it dawned on me that the staples weren't important and that my life did not belong in this field."
Thursday 15 February 2007
"He mesmerised the children and me alike. I watched how he encouraged them to speak. It was magic."
Friday 16 February 2007
"Every time he says that and does that sort of scolding I am aware that it is because he cares."
Monday 19 February 2007
"I saw her looking at the little robin, I just lifted the little robin and we skedaddled."
Tuesday 20 February 2007
"It taught me how to deal with life, I think, so it's something that, at the time was awful, but in a way I am so glad it happened."
Wednesday 21 February 2007
"I am glad I tore my trousers because I would never have remembered Rose and Maggie Fanny quite so clearly and vividly."
Thursday 22 February 2007
"I turned to the Buddhas and just asked 'Please look after her.' And a voice came back."
Friday 23 February 2007
"And they produced this box out of the corner. A black box and they opened it up and wound it up like a clock work and dropped these discs onto it and lo and behold, rock and roll came out."
Monday 26 February 2007
"All we could hear over the headphones was the pilot saying Mayday, Mayday."
Tuesday 27 February 2007
"As a result of that event it opened lots of doors. Doors that led me to places like Norway on a tandem and running the Dublin and Belfast marathons."
Wednesday 28 February 2007
"Sometimes I can't take it in that I have got this far...it's a bit like eating an elephant, you never do it all in the one go."
