110 – Celebration of Friendship Part 3: 2 December 2024

In blog 109, I said that Margaret and I holidayed in Ireland from 13 August 2019 to 24 September 2019.  I also said that Margaret’s closest Australian friend Sue Chapman, arrived in Ireland on 12 September and she too stayed at Anne’s house in Newbridge.  I said it was probable that Ann and Sue had been long time lovers when Sue arrived in Ireland on 12 September.  I said Anne and Sue holidayed together in the English Channel Islands from Friday 27 September to Sunday 6 October 2019.

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With the benefit of hindsight, it is difficult to imagine how Margaret and I could have failed to realise that Anne and Sue had commenced a love affair, but if we had guessed, we would not have seen anything malign in it.

I now believe it likely the clandestine love affair played a major role in the cancellation of me and Margaret in February 2021.

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From Saturday 14 September to the morning of Thursday 19 September, Anne and Sue shared a room in an apartment the four of us rented at the Clew Bay Hotel in Westport, County Mayo.

We returned from Westport to Newbridge on 19 September and on 22 September, Margaret and I held a dinner at Killashee House to celebrate the 10^th anniversary of our marriage at Killashee House in 2009.  We stayed overnight at Killashee House, as did Anne and Sue.

I took this photo of Margaret, Anne and Sue in our room at Killashee House on 22 September 2019.

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This is a photo of the group of friends who came together in Killashee House on 22 September to celebrate the 10^th anniversary of our 2009 wedding in Killashee House.  Anne is on the right at the front and Sue is the final person on the right side.

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Margaret did not at all want to get out of bed on the Monday after our dinner.  I love this photo I took of her in bed that morning.

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I took this photo of Anne and Sue in the morning of Monday 23 September when the three of us went for a walk together.

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Both Anne and Sue were in their early 70s and for all practical purposes, both were divorced. 

Anne had never remarried after she had divorced Margaret’s brother Jim Redden. 

Instead of marrying a human being, she had preferred to be married to her career as an academic at Maynooth University.  That career saw her become a full professor and Dean of the Adult Education Faculty at Maynooth.

Sue’s husband David suffers from a serious, life threatening illness and has required constant care in a nursing home for many years.  Sue’s two children are now both adult and no longer require her full time attention.

Both Anne and Sue were financially independent.

Both Anne and Sue were fervent believers in the Cult of Wokism – Anne perhaps because woke beliefs are essential for any career progress as an academic and Sue probably because of muddled thinking.  At first meeting, both Anne and Sue impress as intelligent, but they are unable to think outside of the rigid boundaries of their Woke religion.

Anne and Sue tolerated Margaret’s lack of Woke beliefs because they knew Margaret before they converted to Wokism.  In effect, Margaret was tolerated as the token “free thinker”.

As for me, I do not adhere to any particular religion and I certainly do not see any sense at all in Wokism.  Although I did not realise it during the time I was with Margaret, this means I was tolerated ONLY because I was connected to Margaret.

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I did not realise it then, but the vehement claims of Anne on Australia Day (26 January) 2021 that the date of Australia Day should be changed, were restatements of basic Woke theology.

When I became seriously ill after Anne had been so rude to me on Australia Day and wrote my letter to Anne telling her the results of her behaviour, I was unaware of the love affair between Anne and Sue.  I was also unaware that anyone could believe so vehemently in Wokism that they would believe this justified atrociously rude behaviour.

This is my guess about the sequence of events after I wrote to Anne complaining about her terrible behaviour.

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Anne felt guilty and wanted to repair the rift.

Anne told her lover Sue about my letter.

Sue saw my letter as an opportunity to reinforce and strengthen her love affair with Anne.  Sue probably – wrongly - saw me as a potential rival for Anne’s affection when Margaret died.

Sue persuaded Anne to make the rift permanent rather than repair it.  She probably claimed this would not substantially affect the friendship with Margaret because Margaret would be dead by about May 2021.

Anne accepted the urgings of her lover and told me to bugger off, while saying she hoped she could still remain friends with Margaret.

I was cancelled immediately and Margaret was told no one would ever see her in her own home again, so Margaret had to go elsewhere if she wanted to see her friends.

Margaret did not quickly die as hoped for by Anne and Sue.  This meant they had to invent a big lie for Margaret’s other friends to explain why they would no longer visit Margaret in her own home.  No one has ever told me the actual lie peddled by Anne and Sue, but my guess is that they falsely accused me of a sexual assault on Anne.  I guess this because of the complete cancellation to which I was subjected.  People I had thought were friends, refused to have any contact with me, refused to come to Margaret’s funeral and if they did come to the funeral, they avoided me as if I was a carrier of the Black Death.

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Everything I have said in the last few paragraphs may be no more than intelligent guesswork, but it all fits together, and I think it is correct.

Unless and until someone tells me facts that make more sense of what happened than the theory set out in this blog, I will assume my guesswork is correct because it makes sense of events that otherwise make no sense.

I will retract this version in a later blog if I am ever told a more convincing explanation of the events.

My reaction to this appalling behaviour? 

Shame on every one of the whole putrid, stinking lot of you!  You make me ashamed to be a human being!

As for those apart from Anne and Sue who simply accepted as true, claims that common sense told them could not be true, Stalin coined the expression “Useful Idiots”.  Let me be clear though, you are not useful to humanity, you were useful only to people who peddled complete lies.  You are merely idiots.