This heartwarming story recounts the Christmas card games played by two sisters, Ada and Ellen, who display exceptional skill and competitiveness. Their passion for the game evokes memories of their great-grandfather, George Ryan, who was also a passionate card player. The story blends the joy of family traditions with the magic of Christmas.
Ada and Ellen on a quest for fairies in Courtmacsherry Woods in Co Cork with Gaggy Áine, and their Daddy James following.I’m honing my poker face for Christmas as I might as well be in a casino in Las Vegas with the two card sharks who keep beating me in our marathon games of Snap.
The concentration on their little faces, the clarity of their memories, their powers of observation, the competitiveness of their quests to win, would certainly have made their great-grandfather proud.George Ryan, formerly of this parish, was a card shark and lifelong bridge player. He often recalled the all-night card games – German Whist and Twenty Five – that were part of the Christmas ritual when he was a young lad growing up in Dundalk.
Of course, the children – Paddy and George, Marie and Claire, now all stardust out there in the ether – had been whooshed off to bed earlier in a cloud of pipe smoke and hot toddy aromas before there was any chance of Santa Claus sliding across the roof. According to George, Santa actually joined the card game on occasions if he felt the reindeers needed a rest and some sustenance.
While it is organic carrots my granddaughters leave out, the array of toys and games, tricycles and skates is way beyond the imagination of the generations of children who preceded them, even their own parents.
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