Maidez

What a start to May! It's been hell trying to remember what we've done. I know that Ma reads this - and Jacq too - so i try and keep up to date. Plus it's a great aid to my own memory - inaccuracies aside...what are memories but edited versions of reality. Sure we all need stories to tell ourselves...

The Steiner school celebrates its seasons in a big way - which is one of the reasons i am such a big fan. All week we have been watching Judith and the schools rehearsing around the maypole, so on Friday it was our school's turn to do our own May Day. All the little ones - up till Class 2 - go around the maypole, and as the years increase, so does the complexity. Oisin's class were decked out in their crepe paper finery, and they all looked so adorable. The pictures are of them bowing to the May Queen. As they danced about the pole. Their ribbons made intricate, fractal like designs, inscribing the air with a colourful, impermanent tracery. I thought, it was the best of what being human was about. As a community we replicate each other and in that replication, art and beauty is born. There was no hanging about after that for us...no...it was straight back home to go to Derry, where we were late of Keith's wedding. But better late than never... in the slow fading sunset, in the backyard of his friend's house, there were new beginnings for Keith and we wished them all good luck.

The rest of the holiday was spent in Donegal. I mostly did washing and spent long hours in the house on my own with Ghin, while Oisin and Peter zoomed about, visitng Terry - Peter's brother who is now in hospital, and catching Spiderman 3. I really enjoyed the break. I was almost refreshed. Except that Ghin is now - more or less - permanently attached to me.

I also finally booked the tickets to Singapore today - thank god that's out of the way. It only took me two hours to do it on the web.