When it’s a lot better than okay just to be feeling okay

Country Living with Francis Farragher

It’s kind of strange at times how things can turn and change in the space of a few hours. There are always what appears to be important little tasks laid out to be completed over the following day or week and then suddenly they seem to count for nothing anymore.

The last day in February was a particularly benign Sunday with the high pressure, which had enveloped the country, producing the backdrop of a glorious blue sky and even if temperatures were modest, the overall ambience of the landscape was very positive.

It was one of those days when a cycle could be enjoyed, the backroads of the former landlord’s estate could be strolled at leisure, a few not too taxing farming tasks could be completed, and the week ahead could be looked forward too with a high enough positivity reading.

A small digression here in the shape of the little exchanges I’ve had over the years with my local vet and good friend too. Often, months would pass without me having to make any contact with him for an animal in need of assistance and I would remark to him: “God, Tom, I haven’t seen you in ages.”

Never a man to go tempting fate his reply would arrive pretty rapidly: “Don’t say that, just leave things as they are. I never like to say things are going too well.” He had good reason too, for a Spring calving season could follow which might see me calling in three or four times in the week. Anyway the moral of ‘Tom’s Tale’ was: just to be happy enough when things are okay.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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