THE REST
Otherwise known as Miscellaneous
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COUNTRY ROADS
My old pal Denver is 12 years of age (84 in dog years) and despite the down at heel look on his face – it’ll stop soon if you ignore it – he’s actually over the moon about going on his road trip today. Unlike other migrating species he heads south for the summer and loves it. It doesn’t seem so long ago when he used to first scramble into the boot as a pup and then later bound in when he was fully grown. Today Denver managed to get his front legs into the car by himself but the back legs were my job. Dog years didn’t really mean anything to me when I was young and how could they, I had little to measure them against, but now I’m one of the Golden Guys I really do…
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ON STREET EATING
I was in Cork last weekend and I took a trip into the city to Waterstones to buy some books for my upcoming holiday in France. Waterstones, like Hodges & Figgis in Dublin, is one of the last bastions of serious bookshops in Ireland. The selection was good enough for me to disappear for a couple of hours, grazing the shelves like an elk devouring the last blades of grass before the arctic winter sets in. Every time I find myself in Patrick Street I expect to see advertising posters stuck to the doors of the shop where Waterstones used to be, but much to my delight that hasn’t happened yet. Clutching my eclectic mix of serious and frivolous tomes I emerged into sunshine – rare in that city and the reason I’ve taken to calling it…
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I’LL BE MISSING YOU…
My little buddy will be zooming off on her next adventure to Dubai in a day or so and the photo blogging will heat up then “for real” – as she might say. It’s strange how the world has shrunk over the past twenty years or so. When I was her age the notion of spending a summer in Dubai would have been the stuff of high adventure, but today it’s like dropping in on friends in Galway for a few weeks. You hear more and more people saying they have a cousin, sister, aunt in Dubai or Abu Dhabi and they’re on their way out or on their back from visiting them. Social media of course closes the gap a little too and I suppose I’m going to have to succumb to using Skype if I…
