Online conversation just now, regarding tin whistles and guitars and broken fingers (yes, still damaged; we think I probably cracked a bone or two):

Kit: so. that’s my goal.
Trent: Heal, learn tin whistle, then move on to guitar?
Kit: pretty much. despite the fact that tin whistle does not in any way translate to guitar.
Kit: although re-learning ( Read more... )

We went by the Mardyke Arena, which is the University College Cork’s gym facility, to find out if they allow day passes to the swimming pool, which I suspect is the only pool in Cork worth swimming in*. They don’t, or rather, they do, but only if you come as the guest of someone with a regular pass and who won’t leave your side for the duration of ( Read more... )