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Readers (one must dream), Here's a Google Auto Awesome pic (google the term if you need to know) of Aghadoe Cemetery in Killarney, Co Kerry (official name: Saint John's Cemetery). I took the picture the other day while visiting some relatives, and, if I may say so, it's rather nice. Atmospheric even. Best, BA

I was delighted to discover Rosanne Cash was following me on Twitter. Perhaps better known in America, Johnny Cash's daughter is a star in her own right. Musically gifted, liberal and sharply intelligent, an aura of celebrity hangs around her. Proof of this is the blue tick beside her Twitter profile, the micro-blogging website's indicator of fame. I lack one myself. Several years back I was a newbie on the site, garnering followers at a snail's pace, when late one night @rosannecash tweeted me a big "Hellooooooo, Brian!" Wow, that's Rosanne Cash, I thought, scion of the legendary Man in Black. My tweets, mundane as they were, had somehow caught her eye. Maybe I'm more interesting than I allow myself to think, I allowed myself to think. Playing it cool I replied with a simple: "Hi, Rosanne, good to meet you on here." I told one or two friends - casually, mind you - that I had joined Twitter and that, by the way, Rosanne Cash had started to...

Readers (well, one can dream!), Please see link below of some driving footage from a while back (July 2014 to be precise). I've added some music. The motorway is the M50 in Dublin. If I may say so, though nothing much happens, it's a nice little clip. Best, BA The aforementioned link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVlT6eChGwM

Readers (at least I'm optimistic!), Ah yes, the power of a deftly positioned Yeats quote. 'Literary streak' no less! Nice to hear my letter read out twice this morning on It Says in the Papers (link below). And thanks to the old dear who told my mam about it down the shops cos I missed it myself. Best, Brian  http://www.rte.ie/radio1/podcast/podcast_morningireland.xml

Friends, Here's some recent snaps from around town:  https://t.co/QU3HS2kjAJ Best, BA

Dear Readers of my blog (if you even exist!), I was pleased to get the chance of a small appearance in this new advert from creditunion.ie The groom speaking at the start is my good friend Declan Reynolds (my fellow butler, Lane, from our recent performance in The Importance of Being Earnest). For my own turn you can catch me running out the door, sans umbrella, and only a newspaper for shelter:-) Best, BA

                                                    She thought: I dunno what’s gonna happen, or how it’s gonna happen, all I know is it sure as hell will happen! It was fuckers like you who locked up Oscar Wilde. Terry Sick was known for his song God Bless the Civil Service . There’s a homeless man about my age sitting on the church’s stone window ledge. She got off the bus in Stoneybatter with her torn tights and handbag of leather. On Verschoyle Court he wept, quietly, in the surprisingly mild November afternoon. Her mind travelled to a house on Carlingford Parade where on winter evenings in 1993 she went to drink whiskey and get caned. Every pulse in him beat at double time. How’d I ever know anything b4 I cud look up stuff at my fingertips the livelong day? Just fucking google it! JFGI: A shadowy expectation of a ...