Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12821)
Ireland
Joined myLot 9 years ago
An Irishman who has called many places home, enjoys whiskey in moderation and reads Dostoyevsky frequently.
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12821)
• Ireland
18 Sep
A long, slow, deep, melancholic blast of a foghorn called me forth from slumber into a dense, end-of-summer mist this morning. Last night’s Harvest moon was gone, and by the time I had completed my ablutions the sun had burnt off...
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12821)
• Ireland
17 Sep
It (the weather) was hot today. We drove out the coast to Carnlough and had ice cream at the harbour. Three tourist battle buses had the village all tied up in knots trying to squeeze past each other on the narrow street and we...
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12821)
• Ireland
5 Sep
The approach into Belfast this afternoon was not the one I am accustomed to and I was a little concerned that the pilot may not have been in full command of things. We came down over Lough Neagh, and we were too low over it for my...
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12821)
• Ireland
4 Sep
I’ve noticed that in Paris people tend not to disrobe in public parks when the sun shines. This is contrary to how things are in Ireland, where, at the faintest suggestion of sunshine, ( @judyev has previously commented on this)...
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12821)
• Ireland
4 Sep
I didn’t know why my wife was leaving out a packet of window cleaning wipes to got into the suitcase last week and I didn’t bother to ask. I just set them aside thinking it was a mistake, but when I looked again they had returned...
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12821)
• Ireland
1 Sep
I feel so old. I looked around at the crowd sitting on the terraces of the cafes around Place de La Contrescarpe as we drank and listened to live jazz well into the evening and then some more, and there was not a person there of...
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12821)
• Ireland
1 Sep
I really don’t think any of our friends or family imagined in their wildest dreams that our marriage would last even 40 days, but today we celebrate 40 years together.
To celebrate we’ll take the train to the Jardin des Plantes...
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12821)
• Ireland
29 Aug
We’re in the best apartment we’ve ever stayed in in Paris. It’s in a non touristy part of the city and it’s just so elegant and spacious which is rare for Paris.
This afternoon we sat for an hour at a table outside a cafe along...
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12821)
• Ireland
26 Aug
Early this morning I took myself down to the shore hoping to find some trace of God among the boats and the rocks and the seaweed: or as a man with a more poetic soul than mine once put it, to find God “among the garbage and the...
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12821)
• Ireland
15 Sep 23
Most of the people of Ireland stepped out into a watery world today, a world blessed and quieted by rain that’s gentle and soft and thoroughly Irish, and although it is loved and welcomed we like to complain about it.
In the...
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12821)
• Ireland
13 Sep 23
Autumn 1986, Rue Daguerre at dusk at the end of a cold November. Chestnuts roasting on a brazier at the street corner, currents of warm air swirling from the doors of bakeries, bars and the stairwell down to the metro, all with...
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