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She might not be their actual mum but these boys love her like she is

But you’re our mum

Finn’s words echoed in her head and she couldn’t stop the sob in her throat, clamping her hand over her mouth to try and contain the sound as tears welled and blurred her vision.

In all their years as a family neither of them had ever called her ‘mum’. She was always ‘Clara’ or ‘that’s our step-mum’. Which was fine - exactly how it should be really, because she wasn’t. She would never be Aoife and she’d never had any wish to try and replace or usurp her like that.

But, as the little sobs made her shoulders shake, and she grabbed a tissue to stifle her sounds, she couldn’t pretend that it didn’t mean the world to hear him call her that.

After all their trying, and all they had lost, she was finally a mum.

- A Month In Fragments

I forgot about Mother’s Day when it happened here back in March but since it’s happening in other parts of the world today, I get the chance to make up for it.

Happy Mother’s Day to the best step-mum they could ask for, from Eoin and Finn

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Eoin Murphy

This thesis aims to look at how an identity or image could be created through architectural and urban interventions while remaining intrinsically linked to place. As a vehicle for exploring the thesis subject of linking place and building, a design of a rapeseed refinery, biofuel production plant and research center has been proposed. An interest in the meeting of an agricultural edge and an industrial fringe was a starting point for this exploration.

See how Eoin’s project has developed here

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"Do I look majestic?"

"Absolutely."

"What? They said we couldn’t order unless we had a vehicle."