Moist

MOIST ( Circa 14/05/2015 )

Oh sweaty purple polyp

It is time to be rejoiced

I have a full hoist

Of oysterly oyster

So moist

Moist, moist, moist

What a foist

This has to be voiced

Not even the salmon fishers moist

With their dribbling boat could hoist

Everybody like to be moist

So again let’s foist

And expectorate a fully voiced

We can grow more moist

Our sluggish eyes can feast

On the mucilaginous beast

Humid, putrid,

Dampish, crunchy and wet

Yes, bring us more sweat

We have our towel

Smear those damp cloth fouled

Let the towel growl

And howl

I hear the screeching owl

Beginning to rejoice

Moist, moist, moist

The towel is to be high hoist

Damp as a wovel

Let it be fuel

To make move our bowel.

Alternative facts, harcourt street and train wreck....

I have a postcard of the above picture on my wall, when my girlfriend first saw it, she declared:

"Oh this is the famous train crash in Dublin, Harcourt street"

No it is not, in the photograph you can read 'Gare de l'Ouest', and this train crash happened in 1985 in Paris, France.

There was indeed a train crash in Dublin, in 1900. And this is the picture:

12 years

12 years ago I landed in Ireland.

Robin encounter

Nice encounter near bray head...

  

Proust Questionnaire

What is your idea of happiness?

Reading by the sea

What is your favourite virtue?

Quietness

What do you most value in your friends?

Art of listening for the male. Confidence and humor for the women.

What is your biggest weakness?

Constant criticism

What is your most marked characteristic?

Beard and disorganised hair style

What is your idea of misery?

Losing my daughter

What is your favourite bird?

Red robin

Who are your favourite writers?

China Mieville, Philip K. Dick, Jules Vernes, J. Prevert, Henri Michaux.

Who are your favourite musicians?

Bach, Beck, Jethro Tull, Radiohead.

Who are your favourite heroes and heroines in fiction?

Hatteras, Mary Poppins.

Who are your favourite heroes and heroines in history?

Louise Michelle, Socrates, Isaac Newton, Grace Hooper.

What is your favourite food and drink?

Andouillettes. Diabolo menthe.

What event in history do you most admire?

The fall of the Berlin wall.

What social movement do you most admire?

May 1968 ... even if it failed. La commune de Paris.

What is your present state of mind?
Curious, optimistic, anxious.

Which fault in others do you most easily tolerate?

Rudeness.

Which fault in yourself do you most easily tolerate?

Extreme Introversion

Looking back at 2016

Well much like last year, I posted even less, found even less time to code and go diving.

However it has been a great year, a challenging one, but a great one. 

All thanks to my daughter. Love.

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I recommend : https://www.futureme.org/ to keep track of your new objectives for the year. I am still working on mine.

Irish bucket list (outside Dublin )

Continuing from Dublin bucket list and that old post from 2008, on the 10 best things to do in Ireland, here's my Irish bucket list (omitting Dublin ):

• See Fungi the dolphin in Dingle, and have a swim with Dustin in Doolin.   ✔ ✔
• Visit Newgrange   ✔
• Visit the Titanic exposition in Belfast   ✔✔
• lock-in a pub ( not necessarily drunk).  ✔
• See the Giant Causeway  ✔
• Games Of Thrones film location road trip:
• Tollymore Forest Park.
• Castle Ward.
• The Dark Edges.
• Downhill Strand.
• Ballintoy.
• Shillanavoghy Valley.
• Walk to the top of Croagh Patrick
• A road trip along the Atlantic Film Trail:
• Leenane (Movie: The Field)
• Cong (Movies: The Quiet Man, The Purple Taxi) ✔
• Roundstone (Movie: Into the west)
• Dingle Peninsula (Movies: Far and Away, Ryan's daughter) ✔
• Derrynane (Movie: Excalibur)
• Union Hall (Movie: The War of the button) ✔
• Kilmichael - Co Cork (Movie: The wind that shakes the barley)
• Youghal (Movie: Moby Dick)
• See the Cliffs of Moher ✔ - bonus: On a boat from the sea. ✔
• Walk the Wicklow way / St Kevin's Way
• Climb Mount Brandon (Kerry)
• Mountain bike in Ballyhoura. ✔
• Cycle the Great Western Greenway (Mayo)
• Cycle the Dublin-Galway Greenway (once completed)
• Visit the Japanese Garden in Tramore
• Cycle the Great Southern Trail
• Pub in session in the Salty dog in Kilkee. ✔
• Surf on the Clare coast. ✔
• Scuba-diving the following sites:
• Down the Skelligs. ✔
• Kilkee. ✔✔✔✔✔✔✔✔✔✔✔✔✔✔
• Inishboffin. ✔
• Hook Head. ✔
• U boat in Cork.
• Spend a week on an island off the west coast of Ireland. ✔
• Father Ted Festival
• Electric Picnic. ✔ ✔
• Body & Soul. ✔
• Sea Session. ✔
• Climb Carrauntoohill. ✔
• Attend a Munster Hurling Final in Semple Stadium.
• Listen to ghost stories in Kinsale. ✔
• Watch the sunset over Rock of Cashel. ✔
• Circumnavigate Ireland in a sea kayak.
• Sea Kayak expedition in the following:
• Kerry
• Tramore ✔
• Cork
• Dublin Bay
• Clare Coast.
• A night out in a Doolin or Brandon pub. ✔
• Spend a night on one of the Aran Island, after a day of cycling, you'll enjoy the best Guinness in the world. ✔
• Drink a pint in the South Pole Inn, on your way to Dingle. ✔
• Have an unexpected encounter with sharks on the west coast of Ireland (basking or blue). ✔
• Climb all the way up to the Skelligs.
• Participate to a Currach race down in Kerry or a Galway Hooker race up to the Arans.