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ireland write skip to main skip to sidebar ireland write ireland write documented a trip to ireland in june july 2010 for a couple of months to write a screenplay i left my husband two kids two dogs and two ducks at home in sydney australia since then i have returned to oz unscathed and now pick up the action again in feb 2011 ring of kerry between killarney and kenmare tuesday march 8 2011 i have a book out the second this year it s called everydayeats and i am one of the food reviewers see it here http www facebook com smheverydayeats sk wall the other book is the good pub food guide 2011 and i am one of the reviewers for it too http www smhshop com au details php id 1845 lots of eating and drinking in 2010 which i am now trying to get my body to forget posted by sue at 8 39 am no comments saturday march 5 2011 last day at varuna i have been in a cave for a couple of days which is a good thing have written more than 90 pages now and feeling much better about how things have gone got over my add and that superglue from the hardware really works the one thing i ll miss from here is the evening dinners with the four other writers they are all working on books and are such a diverse and interesting mix of folk on friday night we read to each other from our work this gave the greatest insight into each of us biff is writing a memoir about her parents her mother suffered from schizophrenia and her father was an academic and writer her work is delightfully poignant i can t wait to read more anna is an intellectually gifted concert pianist she is writing her second memoir about pregnancy and childbirth she writes with subtle humour and great realism gary is a scot originally from glasgow but he is writing a fictional piece about three generations of a polish family his writing is rich with description and texture david is a very warm and funny man from melbourne and his work of short fiction was layered with rich visual imagery and mood all so wonderful beats tv anytime so much talent in one room i feel truly privileged to have shared time with these marvellous people all of whom are just like you and me dealing with families the daily grind work commitments and our own limitations but still managing to create my own work has some way to go but was received enthusiastically by the others the one remark i treasure was that it reads like a film i can see it noice posted by sue at 11 53 pm no comments thursday march 3 2011 funny dreams in the mountains i have been having bizarre dreams night before last i dreamt i met steve martin in my dream he was extremely tall young and wearing a bright yellow shirt last night woke up after dreaming that vampires were coming to get me too weird perhaps they were i went back to sleep it s not in any way a scary house it is just a roomy and very quiet place have written more pages and done a lot more research read all about the industrial disputation at the opera house today jack mundey he of the famed green bans of the early 1970s was orginally a scaffolder on the opera house so he had a lot to do with leading strikes for better wages and conditions very interesting i had breakfast at the common ground cafe in katoomba this morning very good coffee in quirky earthy rivendell like surrounds it is run by a cult after all but the food s good three sisters this arvo as it was the most perfect autumn day glorious yesterday was just misty foggy light rain all day great for writing banjo playing has slipped as feel pressure to play softly so as not to disturb anyone and that just does not come naturally posted by sue at 8 18 am 1 comment tuesday march 1 2011 day 2 am i in prison minor freak out why are all the other writers so diligent and quiet they all seem to be hunkered down in their bunkers in my case a small room with a table and chair adjoining my modest bedroom looking out over a delightful garden working away studiously am i the only one with add usual modus operandi when writing fiction is to set myself a manageable goal such as ok i ll write 5 scenes and then i ll make a cup of tea or ok i ll map out five scenes and then have a cup of tea or ok i ll go for a brisk walk and then i ll read some more and then i ll have a think and then i ll have a cup of tea this results in some writing some pondering lots of gazing out the window and lots of peeing being confined to bedroom cum study overlooking pretty garden feels too stifling have resolved to take laptop downstairs into delightful roomy loungeroom or sitting room tomorrow to push on i wrote eight pages today in fact developed a sub plot which involves two young people falling in love and then having their hearts broken as circumstances force them apart the sub plot intersects with the major narrative plot at the denouement and also i think will end the film so in fact i might have written the final scene of the film today very moving tears dinner time now more writing tonight i hope by the way writers have approved my playing of the banjo quietly in the evening hoorah posted by sue at 8 34 am 2 comments monday february 28 2011 back at it again well about seven months has lapsed since my last post and the screenplay has stagnated but true to form i am back at it now i am in katoomba at a writer s retreat for a week to try to finish this thing off i have arrived at the 1930s home of eleanor and eric dark she was a writer he a doctor to simply write my life away and nothing else not even music unless it s with headphones on as i was driving up here from sydney an enormous thunderstorm with pounding rains poured down at wentworth falls i was snugly inside a cafe eating barramundi at the time but when i finished it was still bucketing down so i took my refuge in an antiques store while i waited for it to ease long enough for me to make it to my car the only thing really startling about this antique store was a giant moosehead which was mounted fairly low on the wall so not long after you cruise in you are literally staring this very large lifelike stuffed creature in the face it was mean perhaps a fitting start to the week as the dark s house is all very original kitchen decor musty books floral carpet patchwork quilts you get the picture and as it s necessarily very quiet there are only 5 of us here i feel like i ve stepped back into pre war times sago pudding anyone too bad i m not working on a war era piece still lovely to have all this time to indulge in the world of my screenplay again how lucky am i oh and did i mention it has a winding driveway tree lined driveway just like manderley sigh posted by sue at 7 39 am 3 comments thursday july 8 2010 ahhh malaysia after about 16 hours in transit from dublin to amsterdam to kuala lumpur i am in the pan pacific hotel at kuala lumpur airport i usually try to stop overnight to break the trip as i rarely sleep on flights and need to at least lie down for a few hours to try to make the whole schlepp bearable my daughter hates it when i use the word schlepp but i love it feels good to say you know what i mean this hotel is attached to the airport so you just take a golf buggy with your luggage and wham two minutes later you re checking in it s lovely has all the great accoutrements of a business class hotel grand lobby with impossibly high ceilings columns and potted palms a pool gym sauna room service good air con etc etc i intend to just stay here and get back on my plane in the morning i got in around 3pm local time and am on a 9am flight tomorrow in fact i don t even intend to get the local currency the ringet my room is prepaid and i will just use my credit card for the rest too bad i was so tired that i failed to get to the pool gym or sauna and the in room massage which looked wonderful would have taken too much sleeping time so i shower order a nasi lemak coconut flavoured rice accompanied with beef rending fried kerisi fish fried egg onion sambal cucumber anchovies acar rampai and peanuts rm41 00 yum after two plane food meals the dinner being sweet and sour fish the fish was cubed and breakfast cubed fried potatoes and scrambled eggs with cheese and a remnant of a tomato both bland and tasteless beyond belief and only sampled by me i needed something good to bring me back some joy by the time i ate the food around 5 30pm i was ready to conk out tried to contemplate a swim and or massage but my body wouldn t let me zzzzzzz woke at 2am local time hmmm what to do pool closed massage not available till 9am bummer dozed for two hours then got up and had tea repacked bag did full make up for final leg home dressed etc now just waiting till 6am so i can head down for some fruit and yoghurt they do great buffet brekkies in these hotels and even though they will serve food of some description on the plane i can feel happy that i have nourished the body before leaving for the day australia here i come posted by sue at 11 49 pm no comments drunk irish man in kerry my mum big sister daughter and i went on a road trip to the dingle peninsula we left galway in the morning and headed down to county clare to see aughenure castle the burren and the cliffs of moher on the way and then decided to leg it as far as we could before stopping at a b b you see it doesn t get dark in ireland till about 11pm in summer even then it s not super dark daylight starts 4am so with ireland s known preponderance of b bs we just thought we d stumble across one at the right moment about 9pm i was driving sister and daughter were in the back reading and my mum was upfront with me we were all happy i think we crossed the shannon river on the car ferry near kilrush and that was fun when we got off at the other side we could have stopped there there were quite a few b bs but i felt fine the sun was still shining so we drove on to listowel irish pron lis tool this is a largish town in kerry not far from the capital tralee surely there ll be loads of great b bs there wrong for some reason tourism has forsaken listowel and while there was a largish hotel in the town centre and some rooms above several pubs listowel just didn t have the nice rural b b we were after by this time i think it was 9 30pm my mum had a lonely planet with three b bs listed that all sounded good two problems the lonely planet was from 2006 and the phone numbers seemed incredibly short also i had forgotten my irish sim card doh we tried the local phone but it wasn t letting us through so my mum asked three irish ladies as they were passing if they had heard of this place they were women of action they whipped out the mobile and called the first no the number s disconnected ok let s try the second they got someone but the place is not a b b anymore irish practicality to the fore do you know of another yes they do yes here s the number is it a good one we are assured it is ok she rings the 3rd so generous speaks to the lady we get directions the three women reconfirm the directions and we re off to nora and jim s b b thank you delightful irish ladies let me explain something nora is a lovely lady and a great cook she immediately offers us apple pie and tea but we haven t had dinner so nora offers to drive us back into town so we can eat dinner and then afterwards there ll be pie ah the irish hospitality we head to a pub which tells us it s only the bar menu available now about 10pm or so however this menu is huge so we have our chowder and other bits and bobs plus our guinness with blackcurrant cordial my mum introduced us to this one and are stuffed totally full at 11pm we re about to head to the atm to get come cash when a young drunk irish man with large ears and a broken arm comes around the corner and immediately wants a chat this guy is drunk staggeringly drunk and he s trying to be clever and guess where we re from first he tries english we re not really interested then he thinks we re german and that we just have really good english we do not enlighten him and also we see that he s going the way of the atm so we don t want to go that way either he makes some joke which we don t really understand about how to pull a kerry man use a hurly and a soccer ball or something this puzzles us i know that in this part of the world to pull someone means to get lucky but i don t think my sister mother or daughter know this and it just sounds well lude so eventually we extract ourselves from this big eared fellow and go to be collected by nora who drives us back to her b b just a ten minute drive the views from our rooms are lovely out over the pastures with a great view of the cows then it s homemade pie and homemade black forest cake and tea made with fresh water from the well which is on the brother s farm accompanied by jim s delightful kerry brogue and charming commentary which is hypnotic no matter what he says we roll off to bed too full to function and laughing at the wildly varying experiences we ve had with the irish today did i mention it s midnight and still not quite dark posted by sue at 11 44 pm no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom ring of kerry ireland ladies view because queen victoria s ladies in waiting were said to have been overcome when they saw the view followers blog archive 2011 5 march 4 i have a book out the second this year last day at varuna funny dreams in the mountains day 2 am i in prison february 1 2010 18 july 2 june 10 may 6 about me sue bangkok australia i am a writer and i play the banjo i am working in bangkok thailand for 18 months for an aid org that will remain nameless view my complete profile rome divertimento warning this blog is not just about ireland i have spent a week in rome and have now come to scotland also it s not necessarily in chronological order but there s not that much to read yet so i m sure you ll manage dear reader see suri see suri cruise captured left at the piazza del popolo coffee is bullish in roma kenmare bay