Category Archives: Kettle Thoughts

Who vouches for her

Posted on August 29, 2020 by Adrienne

I read today of a disturbing court case regarding a vulnerable 15-year-old girl in state care who has been groomed by adult men, via social media, to meet with her in hotel rooms where they have subsequently raped her. The … Continue reading →

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Fantastic Beasts and Harry Potter

Posted on November 23, 2018 by Adrienne

A review of the new Fantastic Beasts movie including a consideration of the wider world of Harry Potter (and my life throughout) I can say honestly and openly that I was overwhelmed and bewildered by the latest production of the … Continue reading →

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Silver pins and lamp posts

Posted on April 21, 2018 by Adrienne

I remember the little anti-abortion pins on school uniforms. I remember the earrings, the same design, the two little footprints. I gushed to a girl in my class: WHERE did you get that! That’s ADORABLE! She looked at me quizzically. … Continue reading →

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On wings of song

Posted on September 21, 2017 by Adrienne

I discovered some words I threw down in a notebook, exactly two years ago this week: a vignette of my daughter Aoife in a nonsuch moment I wanted to preserve for ever and ever and ever https://www.instagram.com/p/7_T-X3jZns/ On Wings of … Continue reading →

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There once was a woman who didn’t know what to do with all her iPhone photos

Posted on December 31, 2016 by Adrienne

There was once a woman who lived …  on a hill…. she had so many photos she didn’t know what to do … I have possibly upwards of 100,000 digital photographs. They’re stashed on cloud storage facilities like Dropbox, OneDrive … Continue reading →

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Aoife Day: opting out of first Holy Communion for her own kind of Special Day

Posted on September 11, 2016 by Adrienne

Saturday 14th May 2016 was my 37th birthday (yes, THIRTY-SEVEN), but this day was not about me. It was all about my daughter, Aoife (8). It was: “AOIFE DAY.” The idea for ‘Aoife Day’ came about when Aoife and I spoke … Continue reading →

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The Vegan Sheep Farmer

Posted on May 7, 2016 by Adrienne

Exactly at the time that I was getting into yoga and vegetarian food and not wanting to eat animals anymore, Colm was building up a sheep farm. Continue reading →

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Odd Socks Mob

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Adrienne

Our odd socks problem is getting out of hand. They’re starting to mob us now.  

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Stupid milk

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Adrienne

                        Either I’m a genius or I’ll live to regret this. But there has been a marked dwindling in my three-year-old’s enduring passion for the word ‘stupid’ since this … Continue reading →

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Powercut Verbatim

Posted on December 30, 2012 by Adrienne

In 1998, my family at home in Carrantanlass, County Galway, experienced our second Christmas in a row without electricity due to storms. We had Christmas dinner  by candlelight at my cousins next door. For about four days, we otherwise congregated … Continue reading →

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