Rode parts of Ireland recently, had to write it down to make sure I remember it.
Pt.1 getting there
Buses, the lovelorn, and a bit of hangover.
Been reading a cute little number that has had me in fits of giggles on my commute each morning. Sometimes I’ve had to snap the book shut just as a guffaw was about to erupt. Very frustrating, reading in public and having to contain myself like that.
Eats shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation. Truss, London : Profile Books, 2003.
2003! Where the hell was I when this was…
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Time seems to fly - it really does - we wonder where the days went, try to grasp what has happened? - but really, in actual fact it is not passing that quickly at all...I mean, it's only been a month since my last note..... about the time it took this moss to grow on the picnic table (took this pic a week ago...)
I swear it feels like its been at least three months
Hey babe, call for you ..
Today you had a call from a recruitment company. I was a little curt with the poor fellow . I felt bad about it. But not so bad that I would be endlessly kicking myself, the way I normally do when I feel I’ve been unkind.. But he got me by surprise. It was the last thing I expected. The first time they called (yesterday) I saw the 02 area code, and ignored it thinking it was another…
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Oh boy – months since my last. Oh well – not like anyone is waiting for them, or reading them. Kent, Hannah, The Good People Set in the late 19th century rural Ireland – where people lived a simple, yet harsh existence. Their labour was arduous, their earnings meagre, the climate mostly frigid. The country at that time is at the cusp of losing their traditional superstitions (Fairies) and…
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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NxenCGfxEk)
This is so good - c'mon laugh with me
Bitten off more than I can chew?
I started a book club specifically so I would stop doing this … Four books on the go – that I’m listing here. This is not counting the ones I started and stopped reading last year. Made the mistake of updating my Goodreads account. There it was – the books listed as ‘currently reading’. And that is only the one I am willing to show you. A a sense of guilt, or is it defeat? whatever it is, it…
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euphony ˈjuːf(ə)ni/
noun
the quality of being pleasing to the ear. “the poet put euphony before mere factuality”
the tendency to make phonetic change for ease of pronunciation.
I will name my next cat Euphony.
When I was required to read poetry for school, it was not a pleasant experience. Chaucer, or anyone from the 18th century woulds’t doth mine own headeth in. But, spoken…
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No! Do not panic. I’m not reviewing a book on government systems from my Year 11 Politics class.
I came across this little beauty today, as I was cataloguing my book collection. I opened it up for a quick look see, and found something quite telling about why I have not been here over the last three and a half years.
Get this. ‘The Façade democracy’
This is where “liberal democratic…
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