So when KH sent me this photograph from Norway, it justified a trip down Statler & Waldorf memory lane.
Enjoy
Using signs, advertisements and messages as the inspiration for observation and comment - enlightened and otherwise
They were always my favourites on The Muppet Show – possibly a warning of what I might become.
So when KH sent me this photograph from Norway, it justified a trip down Statler & Waldorf memory lane. Enjoy
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Angry Old Man - 4 |
Angry Old Man - 3 The other day, I was reading on @ConalCreedon about the campaign for Galway to be European City of Culture in 2020. It provided another excuse for one of their public poetry/writing– to follow on from the (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 – no) 7 previous entries hereabouts. If only Cork had the balls to follow this creative lead – or maybe that is just more angry old me. | “A lovely day it was, the town |
This was looking down on me on Henry Street, Galway recently. Like Lavitt’s Quay in Cork, I suspect that it is a recent inclusion – rusted screw fixings and looks like the entire upper floor has been repointed. Regardless, it adds interest to the streetscape and was welcomed by this observer. |
Some may consider it too cutesy. But my eight year old and I both liked it when we went for a spin in Co. Roscommon over the Bank Holiday weekend. So appropriate, I thought, for a quiet village. Also a reminder of the joy of receiving a hand-written letter – go on, make someone’s day…. | “So many days you passed me by |
I came late to drink. In hindsight, it would have been great if I was categorised as an ‘Irish Queer’ – a category created by Seán Ó Faoláin, ‘a man who prefers women to drink’. Unfortunately, ignorance prevailed and it was not a case of opportunities lost as more opportunities I did not know ever existed. As a non-drinker, I perfected the art of the people-watcher; a part of the group but still apart. This art was later expanded with a camera – at events or even sessions, the person with the camera has a licence to mingle, to drop in and out of groups. He is in control. He can move on when he wants without offending. As a non-drinker, I also became the designated driver which again gave control as to where and when. During a quiet time in college, a group of us headed down to PM’s homeplace outside Claremorris – at the end of a boreen, off a country road. For someone who lived within earshot of Cork’s Kent Station and had grown immune to the hum of the train engines constantly ticking over, waking in Rockfield is my first memory of complete silence. Another memory is that Saturday night, or actually Sunday morning after 3a.m., leaving Mulligan’s and being asked by the bar staff, ‘Are ye sure ye won’t have another?’. That may have been the norm but for this non-drinking city-kid, somewhat fearful of being a found-on, it was a phrase that remains in a strong shade of grey upstairs in my matter. Last July, I was back in Mayo, for the funeral of PM’s mother – the woman who ensured that we were so well fed and ready for Mulligan’s, nearly thirty years previously. I was disappointed to see the sad and sorry state of Mulligan’s. | ‘… |
A while back, I mentioned the launch of John Spillane’s album – The Man Who Came In From The Dark. Last weekend, our eight year old was treated to a visit to Lough Kee Forest Park. On Friday night, we stopped at Bruno’s in Boyle for an enjoyable meal – and who was remembered on the wall outside, but John Reilly. More reason than is necessary for a blog hereabouts. | |
Those of you who frequent this part of cyberspace are probably aware of my curiosity regarding things on display in public places. These include grottoes and telephone boxes. Upto yesterday, in Co. Roscommon between Boyle and Tulsk, I had never seen these combined – a first time for everything. |
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