Day 605
County Wicklow
Non-Irish people: go do something else for a minute.
Okay, I’ve had three people point me to this article at the The Irish Times, each one claiming disbelief that such a gathering of words could come into existence1.
Chris Howden writes:
I know that you’re thinking, “But everything involving south of Dublin is somehow chillingly exalting”. You’re right. But this is different. It is different because it is the most uplifting thing I have ever read. I think that it might also be the uplifting thing you have ever read.
Without question it’s a peculiar story: before I was through it my eyes teared up, popped from my head and exploded like avocado met with a baseball bat.
The only way to make things better — short of making birdseed balls, hedgehog houses, and bug hotels — is to dwell on the positive, count your blessings, and know that Leo Varadkar no longer thinks cocooning is a great idea.


