journey 29 May 2009
I have had a bit of a nightmare journey this evening to get from Shepperton Studios in the UK to Kilkenny Ireland for the Cat Laughs Comedy Festival (surely the best such festival in the world…even if I am horribly biased about it…). Along the way I called a bus driver an asshole and am not very proud of myself for that. Also Dublin’s light rail system needs to check its ticket vending machines as the 2 I tried weren’t working and I felt I couldn’t do a journey without a ticket, though everyone else in the same position was –it would look so SO bad if the ex Mrs Doyle ‘off the telly’ was caught without proper passes. So, I ended up spending a lot more money than I’d’ve liked to get from points a and b to c and d and so on. Once on the train, wich is where I am now (not quite the final leg as it’s only going to Carlow – 40 minutes from Kilkenny so I have to cab from there…) I lashed out a few miffed texts and began to relax so it was just great to see all of the wildlife out enjoying the sunshine, in particular 2 lovely rabbits having a duskus hop-about and a few miles on (luckily for the bunnies) a fox doing a bit of t’ai chi stretching in readiness for an evening’s mischief. Made a nice change from the wildlife that has invaded both of my homes recently. There has been no further sign of The Rat and the little Mr/Mrs Mouse who visits in London must have heard that I’d borrowed Sue Johnston’s humane trap and hasn’t raised his/her hairy head since. If I do catch Mousey I’ll just bring him/her a few streets away – this is a city mouse and if I bring it to Shepperton it won’t know what to do in fields of sheep and so on.
