by Thomas Bartlett | May 25, 2016 | #ABP, #writing, ABP, blog, childhood memories, Drinking, France, Ireland, Italy, meloncholy, writing |
I saw him the other day in Galway, the dangerous guy in every bar. His knuckles are the old bone keys for the crypts, a small man with furtive laser eyes, sunk in with malicious disappointments at things happening that he expected, he expects the worse, lives inside...
by Thomas Bartlett | Jan 31, 2016 | #writing, ABP, Ireland, meloncholy, modernlife, writing |
Some wildly inaccurate and generally smug musings about the Midlands from a train. In the Midlands much of the man-made features seem abandoned; half finished, or half started, depends on whether you feel like being charitable. It looks mostly flat. Hillocks, eddies,...
by Thomas Bartlett | Jan 29, 2016 | #ABP, #writing, ABP, current affairs, Fiction, France, paris, Romance, satire, thrillers |
Americans Bombing Paris Chapter 1 Paris Saturday November 9 2002 I stood on the balcony as the first planes came screeching and screaming in. Flying lower than they needed, to get a better look. The view must have been amazing. Plunging low, then high, undulating at...
by Thomas Bartlett | Dec 3, 2015 | #ABP, #writing, ABP, book, food, Ireland, life, restaurant, writing |
The last day I ever worked in a restaurant I was nearly burnt alive, and even more nearly took someone with me. It was definitely time to get out. And I have. But I still think about restaurants, like an ex I never fell in love with but I stayed with for a good part...
by Thomas Bartlett | Oct 7, 2015 | #writing, ABP, book, classics, Fiction, life, Novel, thrillers, war
Source: Two War Books Redux | Books Go Social
by Thomas Bartlett | Sep 23, 2015 | #writing, ABP, blog, Connemara, food, life
Dillisk: A Seaside Food Project A couple of Saturdays ago I went to Dillisk in Aughrusbeg, Connemara, Co Galway. Dillisk is a seaside food project. It’s different. Dillisk uses land, sea and shore locally sourced ingredients and is the brain child of Katie and...
