Colm O'Regan: I can’t wait for this EFFING lockdown to end so I can walk around Cork 

In early childhood there are the various milky things, then childy foods, then nibbles of adults’ food. But then you start to notice their impact on the groceries
Colm O'Regan: I can’t wait for this EFFING lockdown to end so I can walk around Cork 

Over the coming weeks, Cork City Council will begin to give permanent effect to pedestrianisation. Colm O'Regan is looking forward to a trip to Cork with his family so they can have an amble around. Pic: Larry Cummins

The little ones are starting to grow into actual people. When do you notice that? Is it when they have opinions? Tastes in music? Or is it about toilets? Toilet training is a victory. A liberation. Better and cheaper than them learning to drive. But it does mean they now have extra rights. Like the right to dawdle in a toilet with a book cutting down the time I can dawdle in the toilet with a book.

It also means that our terrace neighbours are treated to hearing, through the wall, regular shouted conversations up and down the stairs about the need for/the likelihood/progress/post mortem of a poo. And it’s even worse when the children are actually in the house.

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