12 October 2012
West from Mellows Bridge
October 11, 2012
East from O’Connell Street Bridge
October 9, 2012
Riverrun
I saw this talk about the Liffey on youtube and I thought that it was fantastic. If you live in Dublin, you should watch it too.
I love rivers in cities. In Brussels, they covered up the river in the 19th century. I really missed living in a city with a river. My husband always says that Dublin turns its back on the river and he’s right. I cross over the Liffey most days and I almost always pause to look up and down the river. And now I’m going to take a photograph every time.
Sharper than a Serpent’s Tooth
Her (cannoning in to me on the stairs): Ow, I’ve been stopped by a wall of flesh.
Me: Is this how you refer to your mother?
Her: Yes.
It is early in the morning, Michael is woken for school by his father. He looks at his parent blearily and says, “You are amazingly annoying in the morning.”
Observing the Proprieties
Michael: Will I have to go ON MY OWN?
Herself: Oh no, you would never be allowed to go unchaperoned.
She’s working on her first novel and it’s set in 1801. She has been doing research. Do you think I am making this up?