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Monday 02 July 2007
"The wind caught me and blew me straight up along the field, and right out over the top of the cliff, and over the sea again. My heart's even thumping now thinking about it. "
Wednesday 04 July 2007
"The first person that I could see was the most beautiful girl that I had ever set my eyes on."
Thursday 05 July 2007
"As we drove on, his English changed to Chinese, then the penny finally dropped, there was something wrong with his brain."
Friday 06 July 2007
"Every time he says that and does that sort of scolding I am aware that it is because he cares."
Monday 09 July 2007
"This might have been the only thing he ever did for me - and it makes me forgive him for everything else he did to me."
Tuesday 10 July 2007
"I just started hearing something in the waves. I could hear an African Acapella choir in the waves."
Wednesday 11 July 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."
Thursday 12 July 2007
"We were like a band of brothers and I was in the middle of them. At last I belonged."
Friday 13 July 2007
"I 'borrowed' a flint-lock pistol, filled it with gunpowder taken from a firework and shot at the wife of the local MP!"
Saturday 14 July 2007
"The elation I felt that day was great. I had finally been accepted in the class. It had taken so long for this to happen."
Sunday 15 July 2007
"I said yeah, computers? I couldn't switch them on or switch them off!"
Monday 16 July 2007
"I had almost forgotten the taste of chocolate...It was vaguely familiar."
Tuesday 17 July 2007
"I remember trudging the streets with two or three pals hoping to get Lisburn changed into a nuclear-free zone!"
Wednesday 18 July 2007
"I saw her looking at the little robin, I just lifted the little robin and we skedaddled."
Thursday 19 July 2007
"Suddenly it dawned on me that the staples weren't important and that my life did not belong in this field."
Friday 20 July 2007
"The place all fell silent, and really it was a perfect silence for ten minutes, and this was over a thousand people in the Cathedral."
Saturday 21 July 2007
"The schoolmaster jumped up and ordered us all to stand in a row around the classroom."
Sunday 22 July 2007
"We went down, on our bare feet, to the blacksmith's shop to get our hair cut, because he wouldn't charge us anything. We had no money you see."
Monday 23 July 2007
"Basically your own instinct for survival takes over at that time."
Tuesday 24 July 2007
"His eyes locked on me. He came towards me. Somebody helped me to reach out further - I finally got him. He would not die!"
Wednesday 25 July 2007
"It made me see the bigger picture. I was never going to look down again."
Thursday 26 July 2007
"It was brief but it was easy to realise that, as well as being Pope, he was just a man not much different from ourselves."
Friday 27 July 2007
"The sun was shining this particular day and we were given permission to go to the lough and play in the shallow end."
Monday 30 July 2007
"That was the moment when the penny had dropped. I had won this competition."
Tuesday 31 July 2007
"Maybe they think I'm half cracked and daft but that doesn't matter, I'll still smile anyway."
