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I HAD great fun at the weekend when I stayed over at a friend's house for a birthday party. My friend Sean lives in the country so a few of his other friends and 1 stayed over when he had his party on Saturday. He was 10 on Friday so he had a party on Saturday because there was no school. Sean used to live near me but his family moved away last year. It's nice to keep in touch with people

even when they move away. Anyway, I got t meet some of his new friends as well. They seem like a nice bunch. Four of us stayed over, and Sean's mum let us stay up late watching videos. We all got up a bit late on | Sunday, but we still man aged to have a game of football before our parents started turning up to collect us. What fun! Bye for now, Jamie
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St Brigid. She is one of the many saints whose life legend and ay than history. Having become a nun at an eariy age, she founded the monastery of K meaning Church of the Oak) for both sexes and ran it with hospitality (one might ss ;wtfely) compassion, changing her bathwater into beer for the henefit of unexpected t, multiplying butter and producing milk three times a day from miraculously obliging cows. In fact her emblem is a cow. Her name means the exalted one. A 12th century martyrology calls her the 'high maid of Ireland' and legend represent her as a rich man's daughter, so supremely self-confident as to give away his wealth to beggars with out his consent. She is revered as Ireland's second patron saint but until the late seventh century, her fame outstripped St Patrick's. She is the patron saint of dairymaids, poets, scholars, blacksmiths and healers; St Bride's in Fleet Street, is the printers' church and over her holy well in the City of London was built a royal palace that under Edward VI became a house of correction for vagrants (a serious social problems after the dissolution of the monasteries) and unruly apprentices; from this has come the generic name of Bridewell. February 2 -- Candlemas Day. This is particularly rich in weather proverbs. It is widely believed that a fine Candlemas portends a prolongation of winter; a rainy one, an early spring. This belief is found as far east as Crete; In Germany, it was said that the shepherd would rather see the wolf enter his stable on Candlemas than the sun. Groundhog Day --In the United States, a German belief about the badger (applied in Switzerland to the wolf) has been transferred to the woodchuck, better known as a ground hog. On Candlemas he breaks bis hibernation in order to observe the weather. If he can see his shadow he returns to his slumbers for six weeks, but if it rains, he stays up and about, since winter will soon be over. In Quarryville, Lancaster County. Pennysylvania. a

I'VE MANAGED to get my hands on another copy of Under the Hawthorn Tree by Marita Conlon-McKenna. This is the story of three children who have to travel across country during the Famine to find their great aunts. Eily, Michael, and Peggy were forced to set out on their journey when their parents went out to find food and never came back. It's a sad story in a lot of ways but it is also really good because it shows how you should never lose hope when you're sad and things don't seem to be going your way. Anyway, this book is a classic and I have a lovely hard back edition from the O'Brien Press to give away to the first person to write in and ask for it.

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Hi Jamie, Will you please send me a surprise for writing to you? My name is Robert. Robert, Knocknacarra No problem, Robert! Dear Jamie, Could you please send us a copy of The Lost Island. W love reading and visit the library every two weeks. Thanks. David and Orla McCann, Claregalway. Sure thing guys, and I might see you in the library sometime! Dear Jamie, This is from Niall Muldoon. I will be nine on April 26.1 live in Mumivaugh. Niall Muldoon, Westport. Thanks for the lovely photos Niall, and thanks too to jyour sister Laura. Happy birthday Laura, I understand y o u turned five on January 3.

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A : There goes my crazy, mixed up kid! Q: Why did the monkey join the army? A : He wanted to learn about gorilla warfare! Q: Why did the crab get arrested? A : Because he was always pinching things!

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Robert, Knocknacarra Q: What did the chicken say when she saw the scrambled egg crossing the road?

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