And people who escaped but cannot shake the vibrations, who bore witness but cannot blink away the images, who lost someone dear, found themselves engaged yesterday in everyday life that was somehow different, as if the sun had risen from the west.
Both remain unnamed except as "Mom" and "Dad," or pet names such as "honey" and "dear" between themselves.
I can't bear it when you see those old dears flinging themselves around, going, 'I'll show 'em.'" She is loving being back at the National – the last time she was here was in Pillars of the Community six years ago.
No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.
I'll not be going to anything because obviously I am a pensioner and the tickets would be dear enough in themselves before you take in the cost of the flights and the hotels and everything else.
The stories narrated are very pathetic, e.g. pastoral mothers who left their young ones some 20-30 km away to get water by donkeys could not hold back tears when they found out that there is no water at the borehole to help their dear ones and themselves".
Since I don't have the opportunity of sharing it with my family — I will compare pictures of our respective bûches via Skype though — I invite dear friends who find themselves in the same predicament as me, far from their families at Christmas.
But then the cats themselves become confused: Oh, dear.
You see, dear staff, the figures speak for themselves.
