Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12499)
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 (12499)
• Ireland
14 May
Rain was heavy overnight, falling as straight and true as stair rods. The sound was beautiful drifting in through the bedroom window, the curtains floating in and around. By dawn it slackened to a soft, steady susurration, fine...
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12499)
• Ireland
13 Sep
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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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12499)
• Ireland
11 Sep
If only Peaches had listened things would have turned out so differently, but she was always so headstrong and hadn’t much sense of danger. There was no telling her, she always took things too far, right to the edge, and this time...
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12499)
• Ireland
11 Sep
I came across it yesterday, almost the same colour as the sand it was lying on, and so beautiful. I was walking along the top of the dunes, parallel to the shore and heading north. All my attention was given to boats on the water...
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12499)
• Ireland
10 Sep
Well there’s not a lot to say really, certainly nothing of any great interest. And yet here I am writing away on my phone that really needs to be replaced because like me it’s getting all and bit are falling off it.
I’ll replace...
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13 people
Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12499)
• Ireland
31 Jul
Forlorn is the word that comes to mind this evening as I look out from the upstairs window across the graves in the churchyard behind our house. Persistent rain is falling, washing off the headstones, and when the rain gives way...
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12499)
• Ireland
31 Jul
What greater joy awaits a person than to venture forth into the world armed only with a slender cane and an inquisitive mind and then to walk.
Kierkegaard was of that mind and habit, a practitioner and proponent of walking, and...
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4 people
Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12499)
• Ireland
24 Jul
Just when I thought I had the world all figured out, the overcast sky ripped open to let a fiercesome blast of late afternoon sunshine roar across the countryside like a bushfire, setting windows ablaze with reflected orange light...
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12499)
• Ireland
6 Jul
It's so good to lie in bed, window open, light off, listening to rain falling through the leaves of the trees before it collects in puddles on the ground and seeps into it. The drains gurgle and the temperature drops and cool air...
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Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12499)
• Ireland
6 Jul
The sunny skies over Belfast turned overcast this late forenoon. The temperature also dropped to 16 degrees, a welcome dissipation of unnecessary heat and uncomfortable clamminess. So I put on my walking boots, grabbed my walking...
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7 people
Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12499)
• Ireland
27 Jun
Feeling light and fluffy today, but solid as a slab of granite lying on the shore with young people sitting on me with a picnic and jumping into the sea to cool off from time to time then hauling themselves up on me to sit on me...
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4 people
Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (12499)
• Ireland
27 Jun
Love and death, thinking, gall stones, painting the bathroom, squeezing tomato juice, passing exams, passing urine, passing the buck - I love this life but it does get very busy and the duties are many and complex. There’s never...
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