
“it really was the cure for everything – if you had a cold, it was off to bed, with a ‘hot one’ – drink it hot as you can”
“it really was the cure for everything – if you had a cold, it was off to bed, with a ‘hot one’ – drink it hot as you can”
“Oh, and it makes me wonder…..”
Some years ago, when on holiday in Ireland, Mike and I met a lad who told us this tale……………
The furrows of freshly-turned red earth gleamed slightly in the low evening sun, shining not with wetness but from the smoothing cut of the plough’s blade.
“it really was the cure for everything – if you had a cold, it was off to bed, with a ‘hot one’ – drink it hot as you can”
Here’s the tale of how I asked the mice to move out of our attic…………………
Being a native of Belfast, Northern Ireland, I had grown up with the yearly disruptions caused by the Orange marches