A lifetime forgotten
Published on Facebook on 7th of November 2017
Having considered all the suggestions I received, this one seemed most appropriate to me.
I'm delighted with the response to my painting of this old cottage. There are so many similar abandoned cottages, like this one, scattered throughout the country.
Humble homes of generations past. Happy memories for some and, perhaps, bitter family disputes for others. If the walls could speak we would, no doubt, be surprised at the stories they would tell. We look on them with nostalgia for times past " the good old days" memories of "The Quiet Man" and John Wayne digging potatoes in the garden.
This was once someone's pride and joy, cared for with love, painted every year and the garden tended and nurtured with pride. A home for a family and shelter from the wind and rain. Cosy chats around the fireside and endless plans for the future.
The future that is now the past, family reared, mortgage paid, and the nest empty.
The next generation has moved on. No time to tend to the old cottage and nature starts to reclaim its place. Weeds grow wild and the rot sets in. For some a lifetime forgotten, for others a sleeping beauty ready to be reborn.
Sleeping beauty
Anthony Joyce
The Humble Abode in Times of Old
Chris Mc Cabe
The History House
Tony Hartigan
Quiet man house
Carina Laird
Evening took its time
Aidan Dullaghan
Tumbleweed cottage
Caroline Mcevoy
Lovely old thatch!
Mary Flynn
A lost doorway
Des Perkins
You never miss the water 'till the well runs dry...
Caroline Una Jean Johnston
"I should have asked more questions"
Caroline Una Jean Johnston
Abandoned
Patricia McKeown
Cottage by the sea
Helen Mc Eneaney
The old Homestead
Ann McKeown
Happy memories
Mary Byrne
Hangover
Anthony Joyce
Rose cottage
Donna Chadwick and Mary Ashmore
One more payment and it's MINE
Noreen Donnelly
Lost times
John Thornton
An old thatch cottage with lots of good memories
Mary Ashmore
Chosen Title
A lifetime forgotten
Jimmy Mceneaney
By Gone Days
Mary O Hare
Diamond in the rough
Natalie Mc Donnell
Home is where the heart is
Pat Perkins
The home within
Mandy Brooke Perkins
If walls could speak
Geraldine Shields Boyle
The Landlords came you know
Sean Hughes
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