09:00
1970 John and Yoko begin "bed-in" for world peace in Montreal hotel
09:07
Meanwhile
mobile phones buzz like chainsaws. Heels click like hammers. Trams
trundle. It's a grey day in this dire city.
09:32
I'm
not sure if green and white hooped jerseys go well with the red hair
and pale blue freckled skin of the classic Celtic FC fan.
10:41
Annoyed.
Said so last night. I'm in this up to my connubials and her
taking-me-for-granted vibe is not a nice feeling. Got a bit heated
and bleated that she needs to marry a millionaire airline pilot to
make her happy. I
can't offer her the jet-pack lifestyle, as I don't have the readies.
I'm just a farmer's son's son, in the Big Smoke city now. Ate
turnips' stalks prostitutes and left.
Fudged
it when I told her I don't believe in random acts of travel per se.
It does environmental damage, which is selfish and personally
speaking I find often it's often just an idle distraction. Keep
traipsing willy-nilly, why you know, pretty soon it's common knowledge there'll
be nothing left of the world if'n we all up and go to see it. Besides
that, I got some leftover postmodern angst about the tourist gaze
and all that. She didn't study philosophy in college so she doesn't
suffer from angst.
I even tried to tell her the awful truth, which is, I miss her when she's gone but she scoffs at me gently and snuggles
me up with emotion. There the conversation ends.
17:19
Trucks
broken down, bags of rubbish building up, court cases for sex
offenders blown out on a technicality while the putative offenders
sue the State. Supermarkets selling major daggers for next to
nothing, scaring the life out of little old ladies on the radio and
the sun is shining but the wind would skin you.
17:56
No
windows down there:The
personal computer of the judge who is facing possible impeachment
over child pornography allegations is now being stored in a safe
vault in Leinster House, after being handed over by gardai.
21:49
Roads
aren’t that expensive and tolls are electoral:
The
road runs from north of Ashbourne to the Finglas interchange on the
M50 in Dublin and cost €213m to construct. The Government initially
planned to introduce a toll on the motorway, but this was
unexpectedly scrapped after last year’s Meath by-election.
22:12
Out
of his class of 26 in West Dublin, 21 are now dead from murder,
suicide, car crashes.
