Counting cash, calories and steps to help pass the time

Country Living with Francis Farragher

I’m probably in the company of millions of people around the world in trying to eke out some smites out of consolation from our current tidal wave of woes that seem to be weighing us all down. At this point, I seem to have given up hope of ever seeing a bright evening again and taking a ramble through the fields long after the clock strikes eight bells.

There are those of us who have bemoaned our occasional (diplomatic term) to our local watering holes where all things great and small are discussed over a few pints of plain, but then the thought struck me of little plus over the holiday period.

Over the years, despite all of my best efforts, I never managed the absolute scourge of a hangover, or two, between the Christmas and New Year holiday periods.

Despite the very best and sincerest of intentions there would inevitably be one party or one sing-song where the defences of self-discipline would be breached and suddenly a couple of hours would disappear into a black hole of time.

But, hey presto, I’m now hard pressed to recall the last time when that little man with the hammer was trying to break out from a spot inside the front of my scull; when a tummy did not want any rendezvous with food; and when that all-consuming tiredness of the ‘morning after’ would never seem to leave.

There were no late-night parties; none of those ‘we’ll just have one more’ moments; and none of those occasions when a pint is left in front of you and you know deep down that you’ve had enough.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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