I want to let you all in on a little secret about my newest addiction.
An addiction according to web definitions is
‘being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming’
I think I’m in trouble. I am dependent on my new addiction weekly, and my only wish is I could get more of it.
It started about two weeks after I moved down here. By chance in passing I came across it, it isn’t something I thought I would normally get hooked by. I took a risk and acquired one and now I am obsessed with it and all it can give me.
The Mayo News, yes a fantastic weekly paper, full of solutions to my problem of settling in the west. I feel uninformed if I don’t get it on the first day it’s published, Tuesday. Tuesday is now ‘Mayo News Day’
Its info is invaluable, my favourite being the tide times they list daily for the week. Who would have thought I would be so interested in the tide times but thanks to the Mayo News, I can tell when the water is out or in for that lovely walk on Bertra beach.
I never was a news junkie at the best of times, skimming headlines and the crossword in the Irish Times was about as far as I’d get every day. But The Mayo News has filled a void I never knew I had. To want to know what’s going on in the community.
Where else would I find out that the local pub is doing a Mock wedding as a fundraiser. Yup a fake wedding. So girls if you have a favourite hat gathering dust at the top of your wardrobe only worn once, why not dust it off and turn up at The Tavern, Friday Oct 30 at 8.oopm for a mock wedding “including a gala dinner, mammoth raffle, dancing and lots of fun. Music will be provided by the Buffalo Cowboys. Admission costs €25” quote – unquote.
Then there is all the clubs, by clubs I mean of the non nightclub disco bopping variety. Fishing clubs, badminton clubs, card clubs, traditional music night clubs, hill walking clubs, gardening clubs all beckoning for ‘New members welcome’
I scour every line each week and love the way that it makes me feel part of knowing what’s going on in Mayo, learning of towns both east and west of mayo and all their local news. It’s Thursday and having read this weeks cover to cover I have only four more days to the next ‘Mayo News Tuesday’
So have you joined any clubs yet? Or better still, have you put Niall’s name down for any clubs yet?
I wonder if you did the same during the time you spent a little further away from South Dublin – and did you scan the pages of the Southside News with such dedication? Although from memory of the last time I saw a copy of that publication, it contained more info on who was in court on assault charges, and “Local Residents protest XYZ…”.
Maybe that’s why ye moved….
that would be tempting wouldn’t it – to enroll himself into the local bridge club, right down his alley.
Southside News never had the same effect on me strangely enough.
Love the ye ref, hear a lot of that nowadays
Hi!
Sounds like you know more than me now – hope you’re keeping an eye on happenings in Shrule 🙂 D
Hey Davinia
I still have the Mayo band of colours you gave me, give me a call if you are around Westport, we can grab a cuppa T