Sunday Thoughts

Here we are again another Sunday and February is already speeding along, unlike January, which was the longest January I’ve ever known. Things have returned to a routine since we got the power back, although I’ll aware that some people are still without electricity – 17 days and counting for some, and I honestly don’t know how they are coping. The nights have been cold, and it must be awful, I know some people don’t have water either. I really hope that they get their power back soon, and I’m not complaining about the ESB crew, who I’m sure are doing their best, but it must be so hard to see the government out and about at events, and the lack of support.

One elderly man had to be taken to hospital because he was suffering from hypothermia, really in this day and age it shouldn’t be happening. I’ll stop now, because it makes me sad. I was tweeting a bit about the power cuts, but I got called a ‘poxy blogger’ there’s always one.

Everything else is ticking along. I’ve decided to run another Heart of Sligo day on February 14^th, to showcase everything that we have in Sligo. I’m hoping that people will join in across social media. You can share your Sligo photos, videos, businesses, art, etc. as long as it’s positive, just use the #heartofsligo tag, and I’ll try to share as many as I can. I can feel my shoulders tensing already! It’s usually a long day on the computer for me, and a lot of work for one person, but it’s enjoyable too, and the last day got a reach of 12.1 million, which was amazing.

I was hoping to go around to some of the businesses, to record short videos, but I’ve got imposter syndrome and told myself not to do it. Maybe I’ll get a bit of confidence between now and Friday.

National Grief Awareness Week was 27th January – 2nd February 2025. Grief is a strange thing to deal with, it’s not always straightforward. I was interview by Kathy Donaghy for The Irish Independent about dealing with grief in the case of toxic relationships. I don’t know if you’ll be able to read the article, but I’m adding screenshots here. The relationship with my mother was the one that tipped my mental health over the edge, I found it very difficult to understand why my mother didn’t love me. It took me a long time to deal with it and to recover from it. I’m not going to write any more about it today. One day I might but today is not that day.

This is not my usual cheerful blog post! Onto nicer things. I wrote about my trip to Manchester, which was incredible, and you can read that here. I found it very liberating to go away on my own and to do so many things. I was proud of how well I did, and I would do it again in a heartbeat!

I’ll leave you for now, let me know if you can read the article, I’m not sure if it will show up OK. Wishing you a lovely Sunday and thank you for reading.