Ned Barrett

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Family Flowers Only by Grief Ireland · Family Flowers Only with Kathleen Barrett · 10 May 2026 podcast

I remember the skylight was gone and we only had plastic over it with concrete blocks all over it.

down, but we had a ball all the time.

So then we bought an old cottage and there was electric lights, no sockets, no water, no toilet, no nothing.

So we had, the day we moved over there, Ned went over ahead of us with another friend and it was a big open fire with the wheel and the whole lot.

He went up on the roof and he pulled a forest brush up through the chimney to clean it.

And when he had the fire lighting, we came in and I had the baby with me at the time.

And there was, do you remember the long old stools that used to be in old houses?

the fire was lighting and the stool was halfway out the floor and he was feeding it and that was burning away.

Burning the stool.

That was our fire.

Wow.

So we had a few years then when we had no water and we were in love and we were happy and

Didn't bother you?

No, we had a brilliant time, really enjoyed it.

We'd save up then, like I was being paid monthly at the time because I had gone back working after we were moving into that house.

So we'd save then a couple of months and then you buy the next thing.

around October anyway, we had partitioned off a bathroom and we were due to buy the bathroom.

So I was going to court the following morning to buy the bathroom and I had my month's wages and I put it up in an old press we had and got up in the morning anyway for my 300 odd, whatever, money gone.

Couldn't figure out where it was gone.

So next he dawned on me.

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