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Naturist Caving Fear

April 6, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

‘It was in a cave near there that De Selby encountered St Augustine and surrealistic visions of eternity.’ or so I wrote last October of a cave in a cove where naturists liked to hang out. I’m not contending that De Selby or St Augustine were advocates let alone dedicated to meeting au naturel but far stranger things happened in The Dalkey Archive. By the way, the naturists I often encountered while walking the dog have recently moved around the head to the Vico Bathing place. In case you were curious.

193 seconds from January 2013 – De Selby could have seen this from White Rock.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: alan garner, booklink, flann o'brien, photo, robert macfarlane

Serial Killer

April 5, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

There is a serial killer at large in Munster. There have been ‘wanted posters’ and full page ads in the local press that offer a reward. The 19th century-style campaign for justice is seeking information that will stop the murders by conviction. It’s such a big reward (and such a horrible crime) that it made the news.

Buzzard hunting above Hawk Cliff
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: bird watching, birds, birdwatch ireland, buzzard, npws, pesticides, photos, pigeons, travel, ungrievable

Suez Carrier

April 4, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

We turned on the TV this morning to hear that the Suez Canal backlog was cleared. After paying the normal $500,000 transit fee per ship, the 400 or so delayed vessels are all plying their trade again. And there, to illustrate the news story, was an aircraft carrier. The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower had also passed through the canal. And typing 400 reminds me that this is journal 400.

WKD backlight on Easter Sunday on Dun Laoghaire Pier
I might have put this in a chapbook on The Muglins.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir, Photozines Tagged With: booklink, clive ponting, dag hammarskjöld, dwight d eisenhower, peter frankopan, photo, stephen graubeard, suez

Walking Ireland

April 3, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Frank Mitchell was the Professor of Quaternary Studies when I was a geology student in Trinity College, Dublin. When he retired in 1979, I was already overseas, working in Sharjah. A few job changes and a dozen years later, I was back in Ireland so to speak. In fact, I was commuting to work overseas and never found employment in Ireland in the coming thirty years.

Chocolate. I’d walk a long way for good Parisian chocolate.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir, ManRom2021 Tagged With: booklink, frank mitchell, geology, national trust, peter lynch, portstewart, travel, walking

Contemporary Irish Writing

April 2, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

We attended the virtual launch of a virtual resource from our kitchen last night. This was the official launch of ContemporaryIrishWriting.ie which ‘features books written in both English and Irish, ranging from fiction and poetry to memoir, young adult fiction and children’s literature.’ 

Avignon this day 2009 – seems like a time and place far, far away.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: contemporaryirishwriting, theworldwideweb, walkingcommentary

March Movies

March 30, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

March has been a month of many memorable things including three movies. You may dismiss the idea that an octopus could be dreaming of electric sheep but you shouldn’t ignore these three utterly different expositions of the cinematographic arts.

Horses with wings might fly me back to Paris one day soon.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: animation, cannes film festival, jérémy clapin, little moon animation, movies, netflix, peter debruge

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