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      • No Need to Look for Love
      • 'The Love Quartet' >
        • The Tannery Wager
        • 'Fini and Archie'
        • 'The Love Bridge'
        • 'Forgotten Love'
      • The Priest's Calling Card >
        • Chapter One - The Irish Custom
        • Chapter Two - Patrick Duffy's Family Background
        • Chapter Three - Patrick Duffy Junior's Vocation to Priesthood
        • Chapter Four - The first years of the priesthood
        • Chapter Five - Father Patrick Duffy in Seattle
        • Chapter Six - Father Patrick Duffy, Portlaw Priest
        • Chapter Seven - Patrick Duffy Priest Power
        • Chapter Eight - Patrick Duffy Groundless Gossip
        • Chapter Nine - Monsignor Duffy of Portlaw
        • Chapter Ten - The Portlaw Inheritance of Patrick Duffy
      • Bigger and Better >
        • Chapter One - The Portlaw Runt
        • Chapter Two - Tony Arrives in California
        • Chapter Three - Tony's Life in San Francisco
        • Chapter Four - Tony and Mary
        • Chapter Five - The Portlaw Secret
      • The Oldest Woman in the World >
        • Chapter One - The Early Life of Sean Thornton
        • Chapter Two - Reporter to Investigator
        • Chapter Three - Search for the Oldest Person Alive
        • Chapter Four - Sean Thornton marries Sheila
        • Chapter Five - Discoveries of Widow Friggs' Past
        • Chapter Six - Facts and Truth are Not Always the Same
      • Sean and Sarah >
        • Chapter 1 - 'Return of the Prodigal Son'
        • Chapter 2 - 'The early years of sweet innocence in Portlaw'
        • Chapter 3 - 'The Separation'
        • Chapter 4 - 'Separation and Betrayal'
        • Chapter 5 - 'Portlaw to Manchester'
        • Chapter 6 - 'Salford Choices'
        • Chapter 7 - 'Life inside Prison'
        • Chapter 8 - 'The Aylesbury Pilgrimage'
        • Chapter 9 - Sean's interest in stone masonary'
        • Chapter 10 - 'Sean's and Tony's Partnership'
        • Chapter 11 - 'Return of the Prodigal Son'
      • The Alternative Christmas Party >
        • Chapter One
        • Chapter Two
        • Chapter Three
        • Chapter Four
        • Chapter Five
        • Chapter Six
        • Chapter Seven
        • Chapter Eight
      • The Life of Liam Lafferty >
        • Chapter One: ' Liam Lafferty is born'
        • Chapter Two : 'The Baptism of Liam Lafferty'
        • Chapter Three: 'The early years of Liam Lafferty'
        • Chapter Four : Early Manhood
        • Chapter Five : Ned's Secret Past
        • Chapter Six : Courtship and Marriage
        • Chapter Seven : Liam and Trish marry
        • Chapter Eight : Farley meets Ned
        • Chapter Nine : 'Ned comes clean to Farley'
        • Chapter Ten : Tragedy hits the family
        • Chapter Eleven : The future is brighter
      • The life and times of Joe Walsh >
        • Chapter One : 'The marriage of Margaret Mawd and Thomas Walsh’
        • Chapter Two 'The birth of Joe Walsh'
        • Chapter Three 'Marriage breakup and betrayal'
        • Chapter Four: ' The Walsh family breakup'
        • Chapter Five : ' Liverpool Lodgings'
        • Chapter Six: ' Settled times are established and tested'
        • Chapter Seven : 'Haworth is heaven is a place on earth'
        • Chapter Eight: 'Coming out'
        • Chapter Nine: Portlaw revenge
        • Chapter Ten: ' The murder trial of Paddy Groggy'
        • Chapter Eleven: 'New beginnings'
      • The Woman Who Hated Christmas >
        • Chapter One: 'The Christmas Enigma'
        • Chapter Two: ' The Breakup of Beth's Family''
        • Chapter Three: From Teenager to Adulthood.'
        • Chapter Four: 'The Mills of West Yorkshire.'
        • Chapter Five: 'Harrison Garner Showdown.'
        • Chapter Six : 'The Christmas Dance'
        • Chapter Seven : 'The ballot for Shop Steward.'
        • Chapter Eight: ' Leaving the Mill'
        • Chapter Ten: ' Beth buries her Ghosts'
        • Chapter Eleven: Beth and Dermot start off married life in Galway.
        • Chapter Twelve: The Twin Tragedy of Christmas, 1992.'
        • Chapter Thirteen: 'The Christmas star returns'
        • Chapter Fourteen: ' Beth's future in Portlaw'
      • The Last Dance >
        • Chapter One - ‘Nancy Swales becomes the Widow Swales’
        • Chapter Two ‘The secret night life of Widow Swales’
        • Chapter Three ‘Meeting Richard again’
        • Chapter Four ‘Clancy’s Ballroom: March 1961’
        • Chapter Five ‘The All Ireland Dancing Rounds’
        • Chapter Six ‘James Mountford’
        • Chapter Seven ‘The All Ireland Ballroom Latin American Dance Final.’
        • Chapter Eight ‘The Final Arrives’
        • Chapter Nine: 'Beth in Manchester.'
      • 'Two Sisters' >
        • Chapter One
        • Chapter Two
        • Chapter Three
        • Chapter Four
        • Chapter Five
        • Chapter Six
        • Chapter Seven
        • Chapter Eight
        • Chapter Nine
        • Chapter Ten
        • Chapter Eleven
        • Chapter Twelve
        • Chapter Thirteen
        • Chapter Fourteen
        • Chapter Fifteen
        • Chapter Sixteen
        • Chapter Seventeen
      • Fourteen Days >
        • Chapter One
        • Chapter Two
        • Chapter Three
        • Chapter Four
        • Chapter Five
        • Chapter Six
        • Chapter Seven
        • Chapter Eight
        • Chapter Nine
        • Chapter Ten
        • Chapter Eleven
        • Chapter Twelve
        • Chapter Thirteen
        • Chapter Fourteen
      • ‘The Postman Always Knocks Twice’ >
        • Author's Foreword
        • Contents
        • Chapter One
        • Chapter Two
        • Chapter Three
        • Chapter Four
        • Chapter Five
        • Chapter Six
        • Chapter Seven
        • Chapter Eight
        • Chapter Nine
        • Chapter Ten
        • Chapter Eleven
        • Chapter Twelve
        • Chapter Thirteen
        • Chapter Fourteen
        • Chapter Fifteen
        • Chapter Sixteen
        • Chapter Seventeen
        • Chapter Eighteen
        • Chapter Nineteen
        • Chapter Twenty
        • Chapter Twenty-One
        • Chapter Twenty-Two
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February 29th, 2012

29/2/2012

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Thought for today:
"I wonder if my Sheila will pluck up the courage of this 'Leap year' opportunity today and ask for the pleasure of my hand in marriage. If not, then I'll give her a 'double torment' by asking her to marry me on my 70th birthday in November of this year.
William Forde. February 29th, 2012


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February 28th, 2012

28/2/2012

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Thought for today:

'We live in an crude age of crippling self-interest, where some concepts like doing what is good and right simply because it is the right thing to do have been sadly lost. I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees and yet, I know that only a person who is prepared to kneel before their God is capable of standing up to anyone. Love and Peace.”

William Forde. February 29th, 2012


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February 27th, 2012

27/2/2012

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Thought for today:
"God alone is eternal; all else will vanish before our eyes when His day of judgement beckons. On this day, the compassionate in life will be comforted forever, the meek shall be protected, the loving cared for and those who lived a life attempting to fight and oppose all wrong wherever they crossed it, shall sit at God's right hand." William Forde: February 27th, 2012.

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February 26th, 2012.

26/2/2012

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Thought for today:
"I am neither North, South, East or West but feel at home in all tepees. No boundaries exist in my breast; no cultural walls separate my mind from the thoughts that concern you and no hurt that ever touches you leaves me unpained by your suffering. You are my earth neighbour and my heavenly companion." William Forde: February 26th, 2012.

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February 25th,2012.

25/2/2012

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Thought for today:
" Something flows from your eyes that lights the passion of my soul and stirs my embers of desire. Your look moves me beyond a thousand desires as it promises me all to come. At last my beloved has arrived and my heart has started to awaken and yearn for the flight and fancy of young love once more." William Forde: February 25th, 2012.

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February 24th,2012.

24/2/2012

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Thought for today:
"If you promote what you love instead of knocking what you don't, you will save yourself an awful lot of grief and self-recrimination, along with a considerable degree of wasted body energy and painful thoughts." William Forde: February 24th, 2012.

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February 23rd,2012

23/2/2012

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Thought for today:
"Mankind is made up of nought but skin and bone like the animals that fills nature's habitat. Were we skinned like the buffalo of the plains and left to rot naked to the eye, we'd fair no better in our look, I'd warrant!" William Forde: February 23rd,2012. 

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February 22nd, 2012.

22/2/2012

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Thought for today:
"Some people possess the capacity to look at a thorn and see a budding rose, look at the night and see the day that follows. They are also sensitive enough to recognise the maleness in every woman and the woman in every man. It is this openness of heart and extent of vision which enables them to see Godliness in every human." William Forde: February 22nd, 2012. 

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February 21st, 2012.

21/2/2012

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Thought for today:
"Walk with me through life and my dog will follow you to the ends of the earth because he loves me as much as any creature is capable of loving." William Forde: February 21st, 2012.

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February 20th, 2012.

20/2/2012

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Thought for today:
" One is never too young to learn the pleasure that can be derived from hugging, a tree, an animal or a human being. It matters not who or what one hugs, as the positive transfer of body energy is universally beneficial to all. Unfortunately, all those who are incapable of giving a hug cannot find it in their heart ever to truly love without condition and will lose out on one of life's greatest treasures." William Forde: February 20th, 2012.

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February 19th, 2012.

19/2/2012

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Thought for today:
" Don't let your love stir without me. Even in your dreams, carry my image with you wherever you go. Allow not your tide of love to ebb and leave me stranded on the shore, but instead envelop me within your deepest wave and wash me out to sea on the crest of your crowning glory." William Forde: February 19th, 2012.

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February 18th, 2012.

18/2/2012

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Thought for today:
" Nothing can spoil the image of perfect love nor disguise that special bond of  joy between a mother and her child or indeed any creature of nature towards its young. To see such love embrace the lives of two creatures is nothing less than a picture of perfection within this imperfect world of mankind." William Forde: February 18th, 2012.

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February 17th, 2012.

17/2/2012

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Thought for today:
" If you want to hold on to the beautiful one and allow the wonders of the world splash all around you, then hold on to your most cherished dreams and hold on to self belief." William Forde: February 17th, 2012.

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February 16th, 2012.

16/2/2012

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Thought for today:
"Sisters are special. They can steal your toys, steal your clothes for a night out on the town, raid your purse or even throw up on you and still retain your love and affection. But let them once try to steal your man and they can turn out to be the world's worse enemies. Blood is most definitely thicker than water, but once it stops flowing in the warmth of human kindness, blood dries up all the quicker "

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February 15th, 2012.

15/2/2012

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Thought for today:
"Come quietly to me in the cloak of night when darkness falls and shades all shadow of your presence." William Forde: February 15th, 2012.

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February 14th, 2012.

14/2/2012

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Thought for today:
"When you kiss me sweetheart on Valantine's Day with lips aflame, you light up all passion in me and set my heart a gallop like a horse on fire." William Forde: February 14th, 2012.

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February 13th, 2012

13/2/2012

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Thought for today:
"A bridge has acted as a post of love as sweethearts meet to make plans and dream of future years. A marine has harboured boats from many oceans that have sought the stillness of its nightime waters. A sunrise at open sea should be a must for all romantic venturors, but it only in the quiet of a pond-bound lily that happiness and peace is truly reflected in the magnificent madness of a Monet mirage." Willliam Forde: February, 2012.

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February 12th, 2012.

12/2/2012

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Thought for today:
"When you share the same feelings with your neighbour, you are more likely to understand each other. Not liking someone or something can usually be put down to the ignorance of not knowing much about." William Forde: February 12th, 2012.

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February 11th, 2012.

11/2/2012

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Thought for today:
"I am a free spirit who is guided by love. I will not grow into a fool." William Forde: February 11th,2012.

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February 10th, 2012.

10/2/2012

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Thought for today;
" There is a time to live and a time to die. Today, I intend to live and 'go for it! I intend to 'kick some ass' like I used to do before Sheila's cup cakes got to me. Before I knew her I used to be 'a hard man,' but now, alas, I've gone soft." William Forde: February 10th, 2012.

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February 9th, 2012.

9/2/2012

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Thought for today:
" When we are young, we are prone to take the type of risks that would simply frighten the pants off the elderly. Occasionally however, it is the older ones who are the most prepared to push the boat over the edge." William Forde: February 9th, 2012.


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February 8th, 2012.

8/2/2012

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Thought for today:
"I remember one year when I was very young and whispered in  Santa's ear in a store telling him what I would like for Christmas. There must be a Santa because my parents were nowhere around at the time and I got what I asked for. I still believe in Christmas." William Forde: February 8th, 2012.


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February 7th, 2012.

7/2/2012

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Thought for today:
"One doesn't need to possess a lot in order to be brave. All that is required is compassion and a pair of balls, along with a belief that this world is worth fighting and, if necessary, dying for. "William Forde: February 7th, 2012.

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February 6th, 2012.

6/2/2012

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"Today is my daughter Rebecca's birthday. She is my only daughter and the costliest of the four children I fathered. Even as a child, she quickly learned 'the power over dad' that an only daughter possesses and which her three brothers would have died for. She has always been able to make this educated and intelligent man no more than putty in her hands whenever and whatever she wanted. I wouldn't go as far as to say that I've ruined her, but I've most certainly spoiled her and have been probably responsible for turning her into a lifelong Tory with my lavishness." William Forde: February 6th, 2012.

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February 5th, 2012.

5/2/2012

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Thought for today:
" Even when I couldn't ride horses, but longed to do so, they held a pride of place in my affection. Being unable to walk between the ages of 12 and 15 years of age left me resolved to one day ride this beautiful creature. As I lay there crippled looking out a window to four horses in a field, I knew then that they would prance that ground with a majesty of movement that I would never possess." William Forde: February 6th, 2012.

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