Cork - August 2020
There can be benefits of proof-reading.
It helps avoid confusion with a swell as well.
It helps avoid confusion with a swell as well.
“Words are in dictionaries because they exist – they do not exist because they are in dictionaries” Máire Nic Mhaoláin
I have used the above quotation in more than a few previous blog posts when I have come across a word and wondered as to its use and origin. ‘Roastery’ is the latest word that appears to have a campaign for inclusion in a dictionary because it is in use. Macmillan Dictionary, Chambers Dictionary and Merriam Webster Dictionary all do not have an entry for the word ‘Roastery’. Cambridge Dictionary and Collins Dictionary appears ahead of its rivals and advises that a ‘Roastery’ is a place where coffee beans are roasted.
 I have been recording roadside memorials for many years – hopefully I will get the map up-to-date at some point. Some memorials do impact greater than others. Maybe two days before Christmas Day had an effect on this agnostic. Maybe it was the clear photograph and simple message. Maybe it brought to mind the memorial to Jonathan Corrie. Maybe it was because I recognised Mary from the streets of the city centre for more than a few years and never knew her name.
Powerful Memorial.   A few years back, I wrote a blog about a peacock that I spotted at 6:40 one morning walking home, crossing the main Tralee to Dingle road as if he owned it.
DK texted me shortly afterwards to say that it is a sad case that a bird cannot go out for a night without photographs appearing on social media. Yesterday, on Pine Street, I spotted a hare complete with cigarette and bottle of (what I took to be) vodka, after what looked like a similar long night, but a possibly different outcome. If the objective of street art is to raise a smile, this was a complete success. I have seen signs for The Samaritans at very many locations where I have thought the message could be interpreted as suggestive in a counter-intended direction – railway platforms; quays; waterways. To me these signs put a thought in my mind that had not been there prior to reading the sign. Maybe that is just the way I am wired…
Yesterday, while walking around the Tank Field, I observed a different approach from Pieta House. I have often gifted a tree, most often a cherry blossom, as a remembrance of a bereaved relative; the arrival of a new birth; and, the occupation of a new house. So I was pleasantly surprised to see the new addition on my walk. The use of the R.E.M. lyrics made the smile wider.
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