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Dear Siobhan, I'm really delighted
to learn that you and Larissa got back home safe
and well. And, I'm even more delighted to
learn you are still happy about I meeting Connor
and Grace. I can now begin making the necessary
arrangements for the trip. With further
reference to Dean, I think the main thing for me
is that he is given the opportunity to meet me
before I meet Connor and Grace. If, for any
reason he does not wish to meet me, then at
least that decision would be his. Another
alternative is that maybe I could meet Connor
and Grace first, and then the three of us
(Connor, Grace, and myself) could go and have a
meal, or some such thing, with Dean sometime in
the days or weeks afterwards? I'm glad
you both enjoyed Galway City. In recent decades
it has developed a pretty big reputation -- with
some justification I feel -- for being an
"interesting and fun place" to
visit. Changing the subject
slightly: RE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgihbuhkG30&feature=related
<<<
"Labelled With Love" (1981)
>>>Like many other AA
members I've come across over the years, and
perhaps not surprisingly, I also have a deep
fascination with certain songs containing strong
"booze themes". I'm not sure if you are
familiar with the song at the above youtube
address. If not, I hope you might like
it. Part of my interest in this
particular song also relates to the fact that we
have a distant "Finnerty" cousin who is a
retired US Air Force pilot, and that he called
to see me in Ireland about 8 or 9 years ago. (As
far as I know, he does not have a "drink
problem".) Although he did not mention it
directly, and I liked him a lot, I certainly got
the impression that he would have "seen action":
and actually been involved in plenty of air raid
"excitement" possibly (in one way or another)
during his years of "active service". I think he
was about 5 years older than me, so it is
possible that he might have been directly
involved in the Vietnam War. Retired US
Air Force Pilot Richard Finnerty: http://homepage.eircom.net/~williamfinnerty/name/rf1.htmLove
Dad, xxx. By the way, the three kisses
are meant to be distributed as follows: one for
your forehead, and one for each cheek. I don't
really know why, but for some reason the idea
appeals to me. Maybe it's just because I really
love being close to you, and that the "three
kisses" idea helps to bridge the large physical
gap that is between us at
present. ========================== ---
On Wed, 19/9/12, Siobhan Finnerty
<siobhan510@bigpond.com>
wrote:
From:
Siobhan Finnerty
<siobhan510@bigpond.com>
Subject: RE:
"New E-mail Address" test >>> Re:
Meeting Connor and Grace ...
To: "'William
Finnerty'"
<newinngalway@yahoo.co.uk>
Date:
Wednesday, 19 September, 2012, 13:47
Finally
we arrived home at approx. 10.30pm Saturday
night……very long journey indeed. However
we certainly crammed A LOT in!!!!!
Still
feeling a bit up side down…….here in down
under. Jet lag is such a horrible
experience, especially when you have get home
and hit the ground running.
We
had the most wonderful time in Galway, the
weather was very kind to us through out our
whole journey. And of course one of the
highlights being able to meet with you again
after such a long time. Although it was
very brief, I’m glad that we both made the
effort.
In
reference to coming to Melbourne in January
through to February, I think that would be a
really good time. Just be prepared for
some pretty HOT weather. (Although being
Melbourne, you never know what sort of Summer we
will experience)
Connor
and Grace will be back at school and things will
be back to normal as far as routine goes…….so
what spare time I have during the day (and can
usually manipulate to suit, being that I work
for myself) will be an opportunity to spend some
more time together.
Dean
is currently not very happy with me, and being
that he is not very good at communicating his
feelings, other than in a passive aggressive
manner, I not really sure why? I will try
to go and see him over the week end and get to
the bottom of his issues? However, quite
frankly, I’m getting a bit tired of being the
peace maker!!!!! So in reference to
meeting him, at this stage I have NO IDEA how he
would feel about that? Under normal
circumstances, and when he is not in a mood, he
would be very interested in making the time to
meet his children’s grandfather.
It’s
getting late here now, and finally I’m starting
to fade (thank god) so I will say Good Night and
keep you posted on how things go over the week
end?!?!?!
Love
Siobhan xo
P.s.
thank you for the copy of the picture you sent
of Larissa and I. (I think) Major
incentive for me to continue pursing my fitness
regime and EAT LESS!!!!!
From:
William Finnerty
[mailto:newinngalway@yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, 18 September 2012 8:47
PM
To: Siobhan Tara Finnerty and
Family; Gerald Finnerty & Marjorie Dolan;
William Finnerty; Granddad
Finnerty
Cc: The Spirit of Celtic
Queen Boadicea (East Anglia); The Spirit of
Celtic Chieftain Vercingetorix (Alesia and
Turoe); The Spirit of King Ollamh Fodhla (Tara
and Ulster);
newinngalway@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: "New
E-mail Address" test >>> Re: Meeting
Connor and Grace ...
Dear
Siobhan,
In case you (or Larissa) might
for any reason be worried about the photograph
at the www address just below, please note that
I have added a piece of computer software code
(hidden to "regular" public viewers of the
particular "www page" just below) which
electronically instructs
all Internet search-engine
computers NOT to list the
page in any of the
directories they provide the general public
with:
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/SiobhanAndLarissa/12September2012/EmailAndPhoto.htm
I
hope this finds you rested and well after your
long journey, and that your cold has
gone.
My cold still lingers, and I still
spend large parts of the night coughing and
spluttering in fitful bouts, with hourly (or so)
snatches of sleep in between. The strange thing
is, I experience little or no trouble with it
during the day. It's lying down to sleep which
seems to reactivate the problem every
night.
Love,
Dad.
xxx.
PS: I would
strongly suggest that,
for a while at least,
you "Cc" all
e-mails you send to me at the "Granddad
Finnerty" connorandgracehorsey@yahoo.ie
address (which I sent in my e-mail to you
of yesterday, please see below), to the newinngalway@yahoo.co.uk
address -- which I normally use -- as
well: in case of "start-up"
problems with the
new "Granddad"
address.
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On Mon, 17/9/12, Granddad Finnerty <connorandgracehorsey@yahoo.ie>
wrote:
From: Granddad Finnerty <connorandgracehorsey@yahoo.ie>
Subject:
Meeting Connor and Grace ...
To: "Siobhan
Tara Finnerty and Family" <siobhan510@bigpond.com>
Date:
Monday, 17 September, 2012, 19:22
Dear
Siobhan,
I hope all went well for you and
Larissa on your long journey back to Australia,
and that you both arrived home safely.
I
was really delighted to see you again (after our
more than 21 years or so of being so far apart),
and I believe the joyful and warm feelings and
memories connected with last Tuesday's reunion
of ours in the Kildare Hotel (near Trinity
College Dublin), will doubtless remain with me
for the remainder of my life.
I'm really
sorry about the way I blundered so badly with
the car luggage arrangements. It was not so much
that my car was too small (as I may have
inaccurately and half-heartedly indicated), and
much more that I failed to remove some bulky
plastic boxes (containing things of my own) from
my car before leaving Athlone for Dublin last
Tuesday morning.
Thanks largely to the
cold I had, and all the lengthy bouts of
coughing while lying in bed tying to sleep
during previous nights, I was still running late
last Tuesday morning; and, I began taking
shortcuts to try and meet the 12 noon meeting
time in the Kildare Hotel which we had arranged
by phone the day before. I felt I could save
about 20 minutes if I left my plastic boxes in
my car: instead of hauling them up to my room in
the Prince of Wales Hotel. (Incidentally,
in passing, and as I may have mentioned to you,
my half-sister Margie still remembers
parts of my parents -- your grand parents
-- wedding reception at the Prince of
Wales Hotel in Athlone on April 5th
1937, and she would have been close to 5
years old on the day). And, at the same time, I
also gambled on the hope that the combined
amount of luggage you and Larissa had would have
fitted in among my plastic boxes. Not so. Such
is life!!
Since we parted last Wednesday,
I been thinking a lot about my next big
ambition: which is to meet Connor and
Grace.
I hope you still feel okay about
introducing me to them?
If so, please let
me know, and I'll start making definite
arrangements to visit Melbourne.
Last
Thursday, I informed a woman in a local travel
agents that I was vaguely thinking about
visiting Melbourne in the early part of 2013 for
about a month; and, after working on her PC for
a few minutes, she informed me that the best
return airline prices would be for January 28th
(2013) to February 28th (2013).
If, for
any reason you feel these dates would be bad for
the purpose of you introducing me to Connor and
Grace, please let me know. At this very early
stage of planning, it would of course be very
easy for me to change these provisional dates,
if necessary.
Shortly after we parted
last Wednesday, the thought crossed my mind --
pretty strongly for some reason -- that it would
perhaps be a good thing for me to try and meet
Dean before you take me to meet Connor and
Grace? Would you be happy to introduce me
to him? If not, maybe I could phone him
myself (after I get to Melbourne), and try to
arrange to go out for a meal with him, or
something of that sort? I would really love
it if the three of us could have a modest meal
together; but, I realise of course that might
make you and/or Dean feel awkward and
uncomfortable, on account of your
separation.
Incidentally, I had a quick
try at looking for the origins of the
Horsey family-name, and it seems
possible, and maybe even very likely, that one
or more of Dean's ancestors would have come from
in or around the small town of Horsey in
the Norfolk area of England (for
more information on the Horsey area please see
at http://www.tournorfolk.co.uk/horsey.html).
In July of 1994, I spent some time not very far
from there, thanks to the fact I had a friend at
the time whose father owned a holiday home in
the region. It's a very nice and in some ways
very interesting area, or so it seemed to me at
least. (Among a number of other things, it's
"Celtic
Queen Boadicea Country", please see
at: http://tinyurl.com/95txn4v)
Assuming
you are still happy about introducing me to
Connor and Grace, and provided you have a little
spare time, I'd also be interested in getting
hold of the contact information of any local
letting-agency in the business of renting
self-catering units (of the most basic kind, for
one person) for a month, within a half-hour's
walk (or so) from where you live. I'd really
love to be able to spend some more time with you
during my stay in Melbourne, so that we could
both get to know each other a little better:
while realising and accepting of course that you
might not have all that much spare time, after
doing your paid work, looking after the
children, attending to your own house work, and
so on. With further reference to the
self-catering accommodation matter, all I would
need is the basic contact information for the
letting-agency, and I could do the rest myself
(regarding the actual bookings, payments, and
all that kind of thing).
Finally (for
now), I have started a new Yahoo e-mail address
for the purpose of planning for my introduction
to Connor and Grace (assuming you are still
happy to help): which I am using in this e-mail.
I would appreciate it very much if you could use
it -- as well -- in all future communications
connected with my hopes and plans for meeting
Connor and Grace (through you) sometime in early
2013. The text I decided on for this new e-mail
"name and address" was chosen in
the hope that both of use will find it easy to
remember: Granddad
Finnerty at e-mail address: connorandgracehorsey@yahoo.ie
Much Love,
Dad
xxx.
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