Caroline's Neighbour

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Comment by Sally Downey on August 16, 2013 at 21:00

I'm sure we could all find something, Norah.  We could do a round of ceili ing for the cuppa tea in the morning.  'My' cottage is only a few hundred yards from Caroline's on the right.  But it'll be good few years before either of you are eligible.

Comment by Norah Blount on August 16, 2013 at 20:48

Is there one for all of us there sally ? Our dream cottage beautifully paintd and Sean can bring the blue China delph

Comment by Caroline Carroll on August 16, 2013 at 20:04

Forgot to ask - where did you find it?

Comment by Caroline Carroll on August 16, 2013 at 20:04

It looks soo peaceful! P.S.  Its absolutely beautifully painted. A good companion for my Retirement Home painting!

Comment by Sally Downey on August 16, 2013 at 14:27

Wont take it TOO personally Sean. But you are in the zone.

Comment by Sean Quinn on August 16, 2013 at 11:41

Lovely painting, Sally.  reminds me of the

Old Woman of the Roads

O, to have a little house! 
To own the hearth and stool and all! 
The heaped up sods against the fire, 
The pile of turf against the wall! 
To have a clock with weights and chains 
And pendulum swinging up and down! 
A dresser filled with shining delph, 
Speckled and white and blue and brown! 
I could be busy all the day 
Clearing and sweeping hearth and floor, 
And fixing on their shelf again 
My white and blue and speckled store! 
I could be quiet there at night 
Beside the fire and by myself, 
Sure of a bed and loth to leave 
The ticking clock and the shining delph! 
Och! but I'm weary of mist and dark, 
And roads where there's never a house nor bush, 
And tired I am of bog and road, 
And the crying wind and the lonesome hush! 
And I am praying to God on high, 
And I am praying Him night and day, 
For a little house - a house of my own 
Out of the wind's and the rain's way. 

Padraic Colum