ashore 27 July 2010
I was flicking about on the tv offerings tonight (not great, which is a let down for me as someone who, as ye know, has had great tv viewing recently) but did catch a bit of a programme that referred to pirates ‘stealing ashore’ and it was so resonant because my late and wonderful father used to say, at the end of a night’s carousing, ‘will we go ashore?’. This is Race Week in Galway, where I grew up, and he’d‘ve been above at the course throwing good money after bad and having fantastic time and, after a feed of pints of porter, I hear him wondering about when it’s time to go home (ashore) – he’ll be gone 5 years soon – where does the time go?
