laughing in Longford

Second and last visit to the Youth Club in Longford. Last time, a group of girls got very excited remembering all the games they'd played at the primary school where we were meeting, although they are now at secondary school. Just proves that memories can be stimulating whatever your age.

This week we had only about an hour to get something recorded straight onto computer. Some of the girls who contributed last time weren't there but a pair of keen girls got going. Even if it is only a laptop, a mic, some speakers and a little box it is amazing how nerve wracking it is - realising you are committing yourself permanently to sound. So they got the giggles - and giggled, and giggled, and giggled - and I giggled, but eventually we got something just mucking around with layering old clapping games - "Milkman, milkman, do your duty, here comes Mrs American Beauty..... " and "I went to the Chinese restaurant..... " (I love the way these rhymes get passed on down the ages - a wierd amalgum of tradition, contemporary references, and rudeness). And of course we kept some giggling in there - because the sound of giggling is just lovely....