From Cork with Love Adventure

As everyone in Ireland is talking about the Pope who'll arrive on Saturday morning, many are enthusiastic - many are telling their stories of rape & torture. All Paul O'Mahony can do is write poems and read them to you.

Chapter 5 Labyrinths & Cadillacs - walking into the Realm of the Symbolic - Paul O'Mahony continues to read as he walks with his dog Louis

The poem was published in 1890. This recording was published on BumpersFM in 2017

Thanks to Madhur Jaffreyv& Dehia Smith there will be good food for Sunday lunch. There is nothing like smelling of lime, ginger, chillies, cumin, corriander, garlic, basil & more.

Adventure under a star & moon

Talking about "The talk show for talkers" on IrishTalkers.com

A local discounter & a proper supermarket in Glanmire. Shopping for food & drink. Impulse purchases. Meeting a man in the wine section & a woman at the counter. Plus thoughts about podcasting.

From eating ice cream Caramel Chew Chew & Cherry Garcia - to the movies - with memories of how cinema used to be. An appreciation of the film for the "GnomeFlixMovieClub" too

End Chapter 4. Rebecca Solnit writes about connection between pilgrims & protesters. Ends with "dedicated and fragile in the dark." On his walk Paul meets a man & chats about blackberries

Panic at Crawford Woods & Picnic at Hanging Rock. Followed by a reading from Rebecca Solnit's book about walking. Start of chapter 3 talks about conjoining body & soul - material & spiritual - and contains reference to Irish holy places

Robbin Milne & Robert Neill speak about their experience of listening to Paul O'Mahony's slow reading of the book

A Bukowski fan reads 3 poems: "His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles.[4] His work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over 60 books. The FBI...

While walking Louis #omaniLouis, in rain, round the estate where he lives, Paul O'Mahony composed this song. This is unedited & raw - the first crude version without music

In Hinchey's pub in Cork - two men chat about walking with reference to "Wanderlust - a history of walking" by Rebecca Solnit

Talking about Blarney Club Toastmasters - Paul O'Mahony is on the club committee

Louis had to be dropped to kennels for 36 hours. Paul made a mistake, and arrived there too early. There's a bit of singing from Act 1 of Verdi's opera La Traviata. The poor Minister for Health gets it in the neck from Paul who pours out spleen. Delayed by his enjoyment of coffee on the road, you hear a man hurrying afraid he's going to be late for the 4-ball in Greystones Golf Club. The last sigm...

At midnight - it was too cold to go out rambling without a pullover

Begins with Irish radio, coffee-making, talking to Dog Louis - a mug from Prague - Plastic in The Graduate - Saving Arpitan - Causes - Robert Neill talks about reading

Starts with reference to Robert Frost by Paul O'Mahony. Reading while walking in Moanbaun Wood in East Cork Ireland. In Chapter 3 'Rising and Falling', The following sources are mentioned: J-J Rousseau - John Napier - Genesis - Robert Ardrey - Adrienne Zihlman - Robert Dart - Louis & Mary Leakey - Donald Johanson - Owen Lovejoy - R D Guthrie - Jack Stern & Randall Sussman - Jane Goodall & Dian Fos...

Reading the end of Chapter 2 - "The missing subject"

A slow day that included talk about TV and new song lyrics

Thanks to a columnist in The Guardian on Monday 6 August 2018 - and @sm2n & @jn2n - Paul O'Mahony reads John's article with a bit of commentary

This is the Hockey penalty shoot-out between Spain & Ireland in the World Cup semi-final in London on Saturday 5 August 2018

Ivy, Ferns, Nettles, Trees - 27 species - Plastics & Cans pollute the place