Friday

Thursday 17 August: Rain scrapes across the sky like plaster

09:00
1920 BORN: Maureen O'Hara, Irish actress, as Maureen FitzSimons, in Ranelagh, Dublin, The Quiet Man



09:21
What's wrong?
- sniff.
Are you ok?
- sniff.
What's the matter with you?
Pat. I miss Pat. When is he coming back? It's been so long now.
10:33
Rugby Tom is harking on about penguins and their disappearing ice. I'm just not in the mood, you know?
12:30
What's with the damn helicopters hurring the sky?
12:35
A nation misses Pat:
The survey results indicate that 85% of the adult population were listening daily to a mix of national, regional and local radio throughout the country.
12:36
What could they want with me, bald chopping men?
13:13
Unlucky for some.
14:57
The rain scrapes across the sky like plaster on a wall. I cannot no longer see out the window it's so grey. Thank Deity water is translucent or it would be a constant night around here.
14:;58
Physics. Thank The Laws of Physics. For the pissing fucking rain.