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About Me

I don't really fancy saying much about myself here. I'll share a couple of poems that I really love instead.

sonnet lxxx (now you're mine)
by Pablo Neruda

And now you're mine. Rest with your dream in my dream.
Love and pain and work should all sleep, now.
The night turns on its invisible wheels,
and you are pure beside me as a sleeping amber.

No one else, love, will sleep in my dreams. You will go,
we will go together, over the waters of time.
No one else will travel through the shadows with me,
only you, evergreen, ever sun, ever moon.

Your hands have already opened their delicate fists
and let their soft drifting signs drop away;
your eyes closed like two grey wings, and I move

after, following the folding water you carry, that carries
me away. The night, the world, the wind spin out their destiny.
Without you, I am your dream, only that, and that is all.


ithaka
by Konstantin Kavafis

As you set out for Ithaka
hope the journey is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
angry Poseidon - don't be afraid of them:
you'll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
wild Poseidon-you won't encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.

Hope the voyage is a long one.
May there be many summer mornings when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you come into harbours seen for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind -
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to gather stores of knowledge from their scholars.

Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you're destined for.
But do not hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you are old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you've gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.

Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you would not have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.

And if you find her poor, Ithaka won't have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.

 

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Unfortunately, this gentleman passed away on the 6th October 2004. Pete McCarthy wrote two of the funniest and most interesting books I have ever read: McCarthy's bar and The Road to McCarthy.

It doesn't take an Irish person to understand the humour that he uses in these two books and believe me you will laugh out loud many times whilst reading them. (As the many people who shared with me the carriages on the trains and tubes in and around London will testify). In both he is writing of his quest to find the Irish in himself and the influence of the Irish throughout the world. You will find yourself wanting to visit each and everyone of the places he visits.

My Blog

Last shift done and dusted

Well that's it, I've completed my last shift at the Royal London Hospital. I am sad to be leaving the good friends that I've made there, I really am but I'm also excited to be making a new move to ano...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 08:44:00 GMT

New Job!!

I am leaving London!! Woohoo!! I'm so chuffed. I've got a new job and they seem really really nice at the new place. I've just typed up my letter of resignation and will be handing it in this week. Aw...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:21:00 GMT

Terry Wogan

I went to see Terry Wogan earlier this evening with my boyfriend and flatmate. The man is the ultimate of the consummate entertainer world. He is a god. He was interviewing Frost, that wee gardening b...
Posted by on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:08:00 GMT

Its my birthday, its my birthday...

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Posted by on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 02:12:00 GMT

A graduate at last

I finally graduated...9 months after I finished college. City University are so cheap. They wait until the January, April and September intakes had finished before they held a graduation ceremony fo...
Posted by on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 05:58:00 GMT