Driving with Daisy

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Tom Nestor. Driving with Daisy

DRIVING WITH DAISY

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TOM NESTOR

A regular columnist with the Limerick Leader for many years, Tom Nestor is author of the acclaimed memoir The Keeper of Absalom’s Island. He has also written plays for RTÉ and BBC, and has had numerous short stories and a novel published.

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I dealt with Mrs Mack by taking another route across the fields. It brought me out at White’s Cross, a hundred yards beyond her house. Beyond the cross I would come upon the Harolds, father and son. For years they had lived without a woman in the house and each had almost become a copy of the other. Jimmy was thirty years younger than his father, and the only difference I could see was that one face looked older. They spoke the same words in the same accent.

Both were very shy and would choose to avoid people as far as possible. My father said that they owned one pipe. Most of the talk that passed between them was an argument about its use. Years later, when the father had passed on, I came across Jimmy one day cutting thistles in a field. He was singing and I was amazed as I listened. Not only could Jimmy sing very well, but the song he was singing was as much out of place as if he were singing an operatic aria.

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