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Everywhere I have ever lived – 1995-1998

18 November, 2008
Posted in: Dublin, Princess

With some trepidation, I moved back to Dublin.  I needn’t have worried, I found it a much more welcoming town than I had done when I was a poor student.  It was much better being a poor young professional.  God, I was so skint.  I can remember going for coffee and only having water because it was two days to payday.

I lived with (just with, not with) a lovely man who was immensely house proud.  We were happy together for two years but when he upbraided me for chopping a tomato on his draining board, I knew our ways had to part despite his very beautiful and conveniently located house.  I then moved into a colleague’s old house and had a scarlet bedroom and a bracing cycle to work along the sea front.

After a couple of years, the office wanted to second someone to Brussels and a colleague and partner in poverty (we drank tap water together two days before pay day) encouraged me to apply with the words “you have to – look at the pay”.  This turned out to be unfortunate for him in the short term as I got the job and he did not but now he has a very important job so all is well in a cosmic karmic way.

Tomorrow – Brussels II

Today – some confusion

Princess (looking at a map): What does NL stand for?

Me: The Netherlands where the Dutch Mama and her family live.

Princess: And where Peter Pan took Wendy so that she would never grow up.

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  1. LetterB says

    19 November, 2008 at 05:03

    Ha! Imagine mistaking Netherlands for NetherNetherlands! That girl is the living end, I tell you. Still loving the series, Waffle.

  2. belgianwaffle says

    19 November, 2008 at 21:33

    Most kind, Alana, particularly when the rest of the world just doesn’t care.

  3. Lucy says

    23 November, 2008 at 14:00

    I do I do, and I laughed about Michael Jackson’s Netherland ranch, and winced at your scarlet bedroom…

  4. Jo says

    24 November, 2008 at 06:14

    I love the things kids say – Neverland, lol – mind you there’s some fairy dust around in Amsterdam, so …

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