At last I have worked out how to update this blog. The login place was hidden away down the right hand side and I missed it time and time again. This takes a lot off my mind because I was so looking forward to recording thoughts and feelings around the move back to Ireland after living in UK for over 30 years.
I came to London in May or June 1975 intending to work for a few months, go travelling round Europe and then return to Dublin. I had a parttime job lecturing in sociology at the Institute of Public Administration.
Instead I was seduced by London: the opera, the food, the colour, the culture. In the urban landscape, I could be anonymous and play with the idea of re-inventing myself. I could make a fresh start.
Skip forward to October 2005 - I am about to re-migrate to Cork and this blog is where I am going to describe the move and its implications. I’m going to reflect on what I am losing and what I’m gaining in the process. It won’t all be prose because i am a poet. It won’t all be words because I love to take photographs (nothing professional).
I would love to have a audio element on here so that people who drop in could hear my voice and maybe even leave their voice messages. If you read this and know how to drop voice files into a blog, please let me know.
There is only one person I know who blogs. Rachel R. has been my inspiration to do it. Just do it. That’s really her style. She doesn’t let things prevent her doing what she wants. She’s a real can-do person and I love that. I am all in favour of new technology but am clumsy and slow with it. William P. helped me put the first story up and then I forgot what he did. So I am delighted to be sorted.
There will be a lot more to come.
