Here I Amn’t, Here I Am
I actually haven’t been here for a couple of days. Instead I’ve been being Irish around Ireland, gallivanting around the island to see a man about a dog.
Apologies so if you’ve emailed or commented. I was very much offline.
Did a lot of cycling, a lot of walking, a lot of bussing, and drank copious pots of tea made from bog water. And I had one, just one, pint of magnificent Guinness; a great big dirty testament to the creamy greatness of human civilization.
I got rained on a lot, but I suppose that’s why the bogs I walked on were wet and the fields were green. And in fairness I asked for it because I often put my chair outside as the rain rolled in over the mountains, choosing to sit drinking tea in the rain as I watched the sea assault the beaches below and the cliffs of distant islands.
But am back in the door now, and just as soon as I consume this first pot of tea we can talk again.
See Also:
• Do You Have Snow in Ireland?
• Do You Have Thunderstorms in Ireland?
• Do You Need a Coat in Ireland?
• Talking About Temperatures in Ireland and in America
• The Power of Snow as a Social Bonding Agent
Eolaí gan Fhéile:
Delicious.
I cracked up laughing when a friend joked about white supremacy as expressed in Guinness. (read quote with Chris Rock accent) “It had to have been made by a white man,” they declared. “They couldn’t just let it be black, noooo, the beautiful blackness had to be put under the white HEAD, see, white still had to come out on top.” *shakes head bitterly*
I miss the tea I was served i gConamara. oh well. I still drink it in summer heat, imagining far away non-English speaking places. Stream RnaG online, eat remarkably heavy brown bread. I was surprised how much more culturally similar it is here though. Teapot is always fresh and hot and served automatically.
I love raindrops in my tea. I like it when the wind makes wee wavelets in it too. Takes the scald off.
What a great read! Thanks for the interview with Damien. Great album.
I noticed you don’t give props to the KC Irish Fest. Might I ask why?
Jennifer - I went through phases of streaming RnaG when in KC. When I sort out this house malarkey I expect I’ll go through phases of listening on the regular radio.
PCB - Tea outside, and I don’t mean at a cafe, now that’s a relationship.
Brianna - Thanks! I gave props to the festival in the form of hundreds of positive posts, ignoring the criticism I received for, of all things, giving the event publicity. After over a year of that I then pulled the plug due to the actions of some of its organisers - as I explained here.