I can't keep up with my 91 year old Da Tom
Every time I call over he's out
We're in an ongoing battle over the @Wrangler jeans I bought him for his 91st
I've cut the tags off, burnt the receipt & draped them over his armchair
now we wait
I presume this is me, drawn after a row 😏
These are not the @Wrangler s
He found them in the hot press during lock down
God only knows when they were bought
Born in 1930 he wore a shirt & tie and a suit every day for his entire life. #Jeans at 91
💙🇨🇮🙏😏
Tracked him to the mountain.
Again.
He changed his car last week.
I don't know the make, model or reg but it's red.
And smaller than the gigantic thing he bought when he was 90.
He only has Sid in the back anyway.
Midnight
Teeth out.
"You're the image of your Granda Rossitor!"
😏
That front camera is a dinger for jowls btw
I went to get Sid in the roasting lashing rain.
They were both out.
On the mountain, again.
Or standing at my Mother's grave wondering where the dahlia bulbs are.
"Christ Almighty there's 4ft of flowers on the grave!"
😏💐
Did you do that says he.
Siobhan did it says I without a blink.
He's glued to his phone.
And is on Facebook and Instagram which is like a newspaper every day for a generation who bought newspapers. He does The Irish Times crossword and drinks @JamesonIreland every night.
He prays for a young mind.
I get pms from strangers telling me they met him and how lovely he is.
One was a beauty salon supply company where he was trying to buy a hot wax jar.
For waxing?
- "No, for the arthritis in his fingers while he's playing the violin, he read the warm wax helps" says the girl
🎻
#BrendanBehan100 1. My cousin Richie Dooley served time for Land Agitation in Mountjoy Gaol
He was working the farm of an arrested man so it couldn't be siezed
In Jail he met the Quare Fella, because they shared a landing with the IRA
At night the RA would march to the cells
2. in military fashion and Brendan would wink at Richie and turn off the lights when they were walking by when the guard was checking. Then turn them back on so the men could read. As a child I sat on a wall in Killeshin & listened to Richie Dooley talk about Brendan.
The view -
3. from Rossmore is breathtaking
I only took my eyes from it long enough to check that a malevolent hen wasn't about to assault me
Richie was about 6ft 3
And he wore a waistcoat & a battered pinstripe suit about the farm, milking cows, feeding chickens, a collie on the back step
#OnThisDay 2020
1.A woman from Norn Iron asked a woman who'd survived 2 months onstage in #NYC on bananas, cold slices & edibles up for the dinner in an apartment complex
The woman dyed her hair blue 5 minutes after she got off the plane & drew the gifts
We ignored adages about
2. Grape & Grains & after 2 glasses of red went at the whiskey. The woman from Norn Iron met the Baldy Lad at my gig. They were seated beside each other in a red velvet tent. He put down a pan of steak and onions that would feed a communion class. Which was brilliant because of
3. the fact I had drawn a cartoon of me saying I hope it's not fish.
I turned off the big light fairly lively
& lit all the good candles
& tuned in rock radio on the telly
& turned it up to 11
It was when we opened the Tequila the 3 way battle of Air Guitar commenced
I'm singing "Jesus take the wheel" like an earworm because I put Carrie Underwood singing it on my Facebook story
I'd been trying to get into my "office" to get a photo of what I rescued from a Convent
But I was roundly denied access by a Monstera Deliciouso & a huge guitar 🎸
One was bought for me by a man who heard me singing
I can't wait to see what you create! - he cried optimistically
I called her Jean Harlow because she was blonde
I can't play the guitar
Or lift it
When I hauled it over to my Da's gaff traffic was a hootin & a hollerin
As per😏
When I showed my Da (@Tom9296031114 he's not a Bot he's a very naughty boy) he slid a new amp in a box out from under the table
He bought it in Trax for his fiddle
Did I mention he's deaf?
I'm #AuDHD & I'm already wandering off
The man thought I would play Jean at one of my gigs
Thread
It's not 5 past 11
I took this photo today at 1.47pm
It reminds me of a man named Joe
In 1964 I was waiting to be born & 18 year old Joe Kinsella was walking up School Street to his new job as Assistant Sacriston in Rowe Street Church
It has a twin in Bride Street (1858)
From a prominent Wexford family - Kinsellas are held in the highest regard by anyone who's ever met them - Joe was the youngest boy
As a child I watched from a 3rd floor window in Saint Peters Square his solitary treks to the church
"He's very holy!" my 7 year old self thought.