I will be moving back to Ireland in about a weeks time. For sure. People who know me will be dubious as I was saying this a couple of months ago. I even had a leaving party and got my friends to come from all over. It was a lovely party. Then I decided to stay in Stoke after all. But after two more months here I know I definitely want to leave. Belfast seems a good place to move to. I will be closer to my family and I can catch up with old friends I haven't been in touch with since going to university. Ireland is my home and although I couldn't wait to leave it when I was 18 I now miss it dearly.
Of course I will miss this place too. Stoke has a definite charm. The house I live in at the minute is my Dad's parents house. It's the house where I spent all my summer holidays since the age of nought. So although Ireland is my home, this house is the only house that remains from my childhood. Sometimes when I walk through the door it smells just like it did when I was a child. There is no other smell that brings me back to my childhood so vividly.
So this leads on to why I have named my blog 'The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure'. At my leaving party I was given a gift by a beautiful, sweet Polish lass (you know who you are). It was a book by Adam Williams, titled 'The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure'. My friend told me that she read this book in Polish and it was the most amazing thing she has ever read so when she saw it English she had to buy it for me. I love to read so it was a good present. I read the title and I thought it sounded lovely. In my drunken state I thought it might be a book that would show me how to get to the Palace of Heavenly Pleasure. Having read it now I'm not sure I want to go there. The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure (and now it seems so painfully obvious) is actually a brothel. But Hey! We all have to name our blog after something and at least it's better than 'Hannah's Blog'
8 comments:
Glad to hear you are definately coming back over this time! See you soon.
What have I reared! Naming your blog after a brothel!
Good blog. Only me and dad to go.
Love ya Katy
And Bert! Don't forget Bert. This'll be his.Every day.
Had a long lie-in.Played my whistle. Stood in that oul tunnel.Had visitors. Nelly was in a rip.
And on the occasional day Bert's would also read "played machine gun cat with Harry"
I'm definitely coming back this time Zoe. Looking forward to seeing you all soon and there's a runmour circulating round Nelly's Garden that Mel is planning a visit home soon too. Yippee!
Star u r!!!!! to name ur blog after that book!!!! by the way,suprising plot, isn it???
all my love
magda
Magda, that book is fantastic. I needed a good read.
amazingly good book
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