Have ye been rowin’?

Preamble

I was off sick most of the week with mental ill health, and stayed in bed for most of that time. Not much to report apart from I slept a lot, and I feel all the better for it.

These things happened this week

• On the Monday I briefly went to London as an energy test for the week that didn’t really work out. It was just a chilled catch up with someone, close to an easy train station for getting home again. After that small trip I’d run out of spoons for the week, so was in either in bed or on the sofa for most of the week. You can’t overhear things in bed on your own!
• I managed to go out to the cinema one of the days and watched Banshees of Inishirin. It is excellent. If you like dark comedy dramas I think you’d like it. If you’re more of an action movie kinda person, then not so much. In lieue of other content for this week’s notes, here’s the transcript of the trailer, posted here partly because the captions for the linked trailer are atrocious.
  
  PADRAIC
  If I’ve done something to ya just tell me what I’ve done to ya.
  COLM
  I just don’t like you no more.
  ***
  JONJO
  Have ye been rowing?^{[Jump to footnote 1]}
  SIOBHAN
  Have ye been rowing?
  PADRAIC
  (pause)
  Have we been rowing?
  JONJO
  Well ye are rowing.
  PADRAIC
  It does look like we’re rowing.
  ***
  SIOBHAN
  You can’t just all of a sudden stop being friends with a fella!
  COLM
  He’s dull, Siobhan.
  SIOBHAN
  (pause)
  But he’s always been dull.
  ***
  DOMINIC
  Maybe this whole thing has just been about getting you to stand up for yourself.
  ***
  PADRAIC
  How are you, fatty? Dancing with your dog, is it?
  COLM
  What did you come here for?
  PADRAIC
  I just came here to kick your door in and give you a slagging!
  ***
  PRIEST
  Why aren’t you talking to Padraic no more?
  COLM
  (pause)
  That wouldn’t be a sin, now, would it, Father?
  PRIEST
  No, but it’s not very nice either, is it?
  ***
  COLM
  What I’ve decided to do is this. I have a set of shears at home, and each time you bother me I’ll take one of me fingers off with them. Starting from now.
  PADRAIC
  (pause)
  But…
  JONJO
  Shush, like, Padraic. y’know, shush, like…
  GERRY
  Yeah, I’d shush, like.
  ***
  COLM
  This is about one boring man leaving another man alone.
  SIOBHAN
  ‘One boring man’! Ye’re all fecking boring!
  ***
  COLM
  Let’s just call it quits.
  PADRAIC
  We won’t call it quits. We’ll call it the start.
  
  😮😮😮

Yours,Leaf

Footnotes

1. Rowing, pronounced like the row in brown; arguing. Jump to source of footnote 1