From Cork With Love - by Paul O'Mahony

This was recorded on the morning of Wednesday 18th December - while dog-walking. You hear: "Oh dear, Christmas is coming. Oh dear, the fact that I have to leave Cork on Monday coming in order to go to Limerick means that effectively Christmas Day is on Monday. Or did I say Monday? I meant Sunday. And today is Wednesday. And that means an awful lot of things to be done. I haven't got a list of them...

This was recorded at about 9am on the morning of Tuesday 17th December 2024. "It's tea time. In front of me is a tepid cup of tea. It's gone all the way down to about nine tenths or should I say one tenth left of the cup of tea and the mug says tea time in La Hinch. Well this is not tea time in La Hinch, this is tea time in Glen Myer. In front of me is the remainder of something that looks awfully...

This was recorded in the kitchen on Sunday morning 15th December 2024. "Good morning and welcome to my kitchen in Cork Ireland. I'm very disappointed in my hand. When I woke up this morning, it was seized up, tight, painful to loosen. Yeah, I've had trouble with my right hand for months now, but for ages I kept saying to myself, "It's getting better, it's at the speed of lichen, infinitesimally, s...

This was recorded at three minutes after midnight on 15th December 2024. "I wish I hadn't started out on a journey like this -  a journey to comment every day about how I'm feeling. It’s hard enough to just get through the day from beginning to end without having to think about how am I feeling, how have I've been feeling, how do I wish I had been feeling.  I'm looking back on this day from about...

This was recorded on Thursday 12th December 2024

This episode was recorded on Thursday 12th December 2024.

This was recorded on 10th December 2024.  Paul with Gustavo & Corrine in kitchen Paul: Oh my goodness, what a treat.  I'm sitting in my kitchen drinking coffee with this amazing couple. By the way, they're not a couple but an amazing two people who come to carry a sofa out of my house before my wife comes back here.  what is this man Gustavo, born in Chile - I have no idea how long he lived th...

This was recorded on Tuesday 10th December 2024. "Oh it's Tuesday morning and emotionally I'm sleepy. yeah I'm a neutra.  I'm placid.  I can feel the cold touch of tiles under my bare feet - the soles of my feet and I need …  I mustn’t fill the kettle more than I need, otherwise I'll destroy the ozone layer - or something. It is not good to boil water and then not use it is? it now the cat has an...

This was recorded on 9th December 2024. "Everyone's talking about emotional intelligence and I'm talked out about it I spent so much time talking myself about emotionally intelligence that I hardly have any time for intelligent conversations with other people but what fixing me at the moment is emotionally intelligence the reason it's vexing me is that I have signed up to do a project Called under...

This was recorded on Sunday 8th December 2024. Contains talk about a family experience - a  #Toastmasters club meeting - and a rugby match. "I'm tired I really am I drove up to Limerick and back from Limerick today I went up because it's my wife's dad's anniversary of her father's death one year ago and there was a family religious service a mass from Catholic mass Specially for the occasion and t...

This was recorded in my kitchen on Audioboom on 7th December 2024

This was recorded on Friday 6th December 2024.  Not a single edit. 

This was recorded on 5th December 2024. 

This episode was recorded on 3rd December 2024. Common Winter Songbirds in Cork : Robin (Erithacus rubecula) Song : Melodic and sweet, with varied phrases. Active : Year-round, often one of the most vocal birds in winter. Blackbird (Turdus merula) Song : Rich, flute-like notes, but may be less common as they sing more in spring and summer. Calls : You might hear alarm calls or chatter rather than...

This episode was recorded on 3rd December 2024

This episode was recorded on 2nd December 2024

This was recorded on Saturday 30th November 2024 in Limerick - after Messiah by Limerick Choral Union

This was recorded on Friday 29th November 2024.  In the photo - the President of Ireland and his wife casting their votes

This was recorded on Wednesday 27th November 2024 - at Shilling Speakers Toastmasters Club. 

This was recorded on Wednesday 27th November 2024 - while watching the first day of the first Test from my sofa in Cork.

This episode was recorded on Monday 25th November 2024 - it celebrates my first experience of using Instagram Live and the arrival of Simon (Sm2n) on the stream.  It was very like the #Periscope experience.

This was recorded in my kitchen on Saturday 23rd November 2024  

This episode was recorded on Friday 22nd November 2024. for #napodpomo challenge - podcasting festival .  It's about #WaltWhitmanShow. #live-streaming