A Co Antrim man has shared his amazement after a letter arrived which he explained was like “seeing my life on an envelope”.
Musician Feargal Lynn was surprised when a thin white letter popped through the letterbox with ten lines of text rather than the usual address.
Sharing the hilarious moment on Twitter, Feargal wrote: “Hearty applause to @RoyalMail Cushendall and Ballymena for being able to deliver this letter to me today got a much needed laugh ! … they had first name, the village where I grew up and half the postcode .. the rest is more like my life story !”
In typical Northern Ireland fashion, likened to your mother trying to describe someone in the middle of a story, Feargal felt like he was reading his life on the page.
The full description said: “Feargal, Lives across the road from the Spar, his ma and da used to own it, his mother was Mary and Da Joseph, moved to Waterfoot after he got married, plays guitar and used to run discos in the parochial hall and the hotel in the 80s. Friends with the fella runs the butchers in Waterfoot too.”
Speaking to Belfast Live, the Cushendall man said he was “more than amazed at the reaction” to his post which has over 2K likes on Twitter so far.
Feargal said: “I decided last year to write handwritten letters after a singer / songwriter friend Hannah Scott wrote a song called The Letter about keeping the art of letter writing alive.
“I wrote to a friend over Christmas whom I’d known all my life from summer holidays and I didn’t put my address on the letter - this was her response.
“It was like seeing my life on an envelope.”
Feargal’s discos in both Waterfoot and Cushendall were attended and loved by many in the community - with the letter bringing a warming sense of nostalgia to his followers on Thursday.
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