Mayo for Sam, the bypass to happen, and those flying cars

Country Living with Francis Farragher

One of my long-standing and largely incurable traits over the years is to put off things until tomorrow even when they can be done today without any unreasonable levels of stress.                                       Newspapers and deadlines are of course the exception to this rule as necessity dictates that articles and columns have to be written by a certain time or they won’t make it into the paper.

Back to procrastination and that census form that has been lying around the house for weeks and which I had meant to fill up long before the April 3 stipulated on the basis that in the meantime there would be unexpected deaths, births or run-aways from home.

Sure enough, on the Wednesday evening the Census enumerator arrived and not alone was the form not filled but for a few brief minutes it couldn’t be found and there were fears that our mischievous mutt could have made off with it and buried it with his bones.

Anyway, the nightmare scenario was avoided when the form was located in one of those sneaky press cubby holes that seem intent on hiding away important documents.

Three weeks of procrastination were then cast aside with the filling out of the form from ‘Person 1 to Person 5’ which took the best part of 40 minutes, the time factor not helped by a temperamental biro and a decision to fill out while sitting on an armchair.

The time capsule ‘voluntary’ section at the end of the form had me baffled for a while but my suggestion of: “Any All-Ireland for Mayo since 1951” was met with comments of lacking originality and also of being a copycat in imitating thousands of others.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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