The Dunoon and District Gazette

I’ve just got back from one of the best and worst weekends of my life – and if that sounds schizo well what else do you expect from a not so sane mother like me?

I am seriously contemplating rewinding time to when I was a five year old dancing to my big sisters ABBA records and admiring her posters of the Swedish fab four with their sleek (and bizarre) outfits and mysterious Nordic smiles.

Mother’s Day means many things to different people depending on their circumstances.

What craziness was it that gripped the boys of Modanville school recently and convinced five of them they should hurl themselves towards the ground and break their brittle bones?
It’s like getting a cast is the latest trend and our dear headmaster’s grey head is looking even greyer these days as he contemplates whether he should have retired a year ago before this suicidal behaviour began.
These accidents - if that’s what they are, and not a sinister conspiracy by Dunoon Public to cripple our lads before the cross country and athletics season begins – did not all occur while the kids were at school, for which our revered Mr Mac gives thanks to the big dude in the sky.

Those are the words my mum kept telling me every night from age 4 to 18 when she would find me reading by any faint light that threaded its way into my bedroom well after the time she had declared “light’s out!”. They are also the word’s one of the Pope’s apparently used frequently in regards to premarital sex – according to Hey Hey It’s Saturday anyway..

I’m calling this Careful What You Wish For – Take Two because I am pretty sure this is a theme I have rambled down in some distant or not so distant past Gazette. I have to say I am pretty sure this is what some all wise, all knowing power is trying to tell me at the moment and it is about time I got it!

Now of course it is great when you get what you wish for – if you have really thought it through that is. For instance, it is great to wish for a fabulous new top of the range Holden Monaro or some such IF you have a garage to put it in, both at home and at work and a super-powered invisible force field around it permanently so it is not caught in a hail storm the week you get it.