Enjoyed Patricia Byrne's reading from her first poetry collection last night 'Unstable Time' in the White House. She's using a Norn Iron based publisher Lapwing Press ringd some sort of bell.

Feeling ambivalent about the Day of Action on Nov. 24th. If it would be seen that it was about the social issues involved -instead of the emphasis on the political agenda - I would feel more like getting out there. Every day in Limerick at lunch time I walk past young men in hoodies holding out paper cups and saying quietly, 'Any change, love?' Last week an older woman in a rejeweller's shop. d coat called me as if she knew me and asked me for money outside Keane's luxurious jeweller's shop. What am I trying to say here ? Yes I am feeling guilty that people are distressed and desperate and I am not doing anything about it.