I’m away from home. On a 24 hour visit to my eldest sister who lives near Cork city in the south of the country. She recently moved in to a new apartment on the water near a town called Midleton. A beautiful spot. Sitting overlooking a beautiful waterway with trees overhanging, a couple of swans and lone rower are passing by.

We are seven: that’s sisters invited here to home-warm the newest home of the eldest. It’s 8pm now. Two sisters are yet to arrive. We’ll have dinner when they get here and talk and argue late into the night.