Will the genetic code give any clue why I cannot swim? Or perhaps shed light on crooked politicians and the invention of NAMA? Or the high consumption of kitkats in Longford bus station? And quantity of shopping trolleys in the Baggot Street canal?
1991 parkour
Some of the young guys and gals at gymnastics do what’s called Parkour (I thought they were saying Parky, but that just gave me Parkinson interviews).
This vid is as interesting for the landscape behind the movement, as the movements. And then there is the wobbly goalpost.
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The lifeguard hailed me at the swimming pool yesterday to tell me I was not breathing. He demonstrated what I was doing and I agreed with his description of my lungs. It was very generous of him to offer these helpful hints, he told me a few other things to do. I tried to do what he suggested and took in galloons of water and visions of drowning came up to greet me in the shallow end.
I reported back that I was unable to do what he proposed and we discussed the adult brain briefly in relation to swimming.
Then we started discussing gymnastics and I proposed he take up the sport.
Alas, I am not sure that my 454th attempt at learning to swim from next week will be a fruitful one. I was very confident watching the swimming instruction video, but once head hits water the chemistry changes drastically. I wonder if some are simply not born to swim, but instead to stand on their hands.
Wunderbar turn in the weather. Woke to November. A pity because I was watering the garden til 9.50pm and fumbling to pick tomatoes in the dark (45 of them!) Today I had to hunt out in the apartment .. the hot water bottle and the ginger tea. In anycase it made me look forward to Autumn which is sometimes my most favourite time of year.
These are very Johnny Appleseed days … and this calls for none other than Joe agus the lads.
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I actually prefer the organ in this one: and the random hit it when I remember tambourine.
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Tony Blair pelted with eggs and shoes at book signing in Dublin
Activist Kate O’Sullivan, from Cork, attempted to make a citizen’s arrest during the signing before Blair’s security team dragged her away.
“I went up to him and I said ‘Mr Blair, I’m here to make a citizen’s arrest for the war crimes that you’ve committed’,” said O’Sullivan, 24, a member of the Irish Palestine Solidarity Movement.
It dawned on me today how to improve the current library collection.
I regularly find books in the Canadiana reference section and then discover there are no circulating copies when I try to borrow them. Sometimes if I look online the books are for sale on abe or where-ever, therefore I am going to keep a list of what’s out of circ. and if I find a copy for sale on a used books site submit a request that the library purchase it.
I am not entirely hopeful, but I think the collection should have as many of these books in circulation as is possible, even if it is only single copies. It seems vital to me to update what’s missing and am surprised this hasn’t been done til now.
I have this idealism that the public should be able to access literature, especially local literature, and the collection should not become depleted because of wear and tear and disappearing copies back in the 1980’s.