If we had paid more attention, we would have found that answer was under our noses the whole time.

This is where I first read Yeats' The Stolen Child, Joyce's Araby, and Synge's Playboy of the Western World, among others. These three for me were the holy trinity of Irish writers and it was on that strand that I succumbed to their enchantment.

She placed on her desk a brown paper bag; it held her breakfast, cream cheese on a toasted bagel and coffee with two milks and one sugar.

Animals in good condition and not subjected to physical stress (such as having to transhume or walk far between pastures and waterpoints) usually suffer considerably less than animals on a poor nutritional level and having to expend much physical energy.