http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: The Dead en Tue, 19 May 2026 07:58:53 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20456#post-343471 Wed, 06 Jan 2021 15:26:48 +0000 gembo 343471@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@bax I am Facebook friends with Inishboffin and indeed The Inishboffin Gift Shop. To mainatain balance I am also friends with Achil Island. it has no gift shop but does have a nice bridge that you can see cyclists pedalling over In Sunnier times. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20456#post-343438 Wed, 06 Jan 2021 11:07:00 +0000 minus six 343438@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>have been to inishmore, was followed around by a singular dog who seemed to have the run of the whole island</p> <p>he even turned up on the jetty next morning to see us off </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20456#post-343432 Wed, 06 Jan 2021 09:39:26 +0000 I were right about that saddle 343432@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo</p> <p>Only a few initiates know how to pronounce 'Kafka'. I was taught by a Czech friend and it sounds like '<em>Gof</em>-keh'.</p> <p>Theroux <em>versus</em> Boyle would be a great Death Match. Boyle would expand to fill whatever clever void the diffident Theroux's retreat invited him to occupy. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20456#post-343430 Wed, 06 Jan 2021 09:32:00 +0000 gembo 343430@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Check out the Louis Theroux interviews Frankie Boyle interview. Frankie wins easily. @iwrats you should trade mark Frankie Jackdaw or Bob Mortimer Will nick it for the cat names he is selling on Twitter for 8 pounds a name. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20456#post-343427 Wed, 06 Jan 2021 09:24:20 +0000 I were right about that saddle 343427@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My favourite short story writer is Frankie Jackdaw* and my favourite of those tales is 'Investigations of a Dog', or possibly 'The Burrow' although many people rate 'The Hunger Artist'.</p> <p>In The Burrow an unspecified bearded creature constructs and elaborate tunnel system to protect itself from an unknown enemy that never arrives. If it had instead gone cycling in Belgium....</p> <p>*Known as Franz Kafka pre-Brexit. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20456#post-343426 Wed, 06 Jan 2021 09:18:15 +0000 gembo 343426@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>In James Joyce’s great short story set today (Feast of the Epiphany when snow was general all over Ireland) there is mention of a bicycle,</p> <p>Molly Ivors invites the hero of the story Gabriel Conroy to holiday in the west of Ireland (Aran Islands) but he says he will be going on a cycling holiday to Belgium. She then calls him a West Briton. </p>