Rainy Day in Dublin - a day for the cinema

Wow was it wet in Dublin yesterday. 

It started heavily raining from about 9am and continued to do so most of the day. Even with the rain, however, we went for our usual morning walk to Nick's Coffee.  We had a large umbrella which kept us dry on the short walk. While we were in Nick's we made plans to go to the cinema to see the Talking Heads Concert Movie "Stop making sense" at 5pm as it was so rainy.

Although we had been considering getting the bus to the Rathmines Omniplex, we caught a break when we set off walking to Rathmines at about 3.30pm as it had stopped raining briefly. 

When we got to cinema we realised we were far to early for the film, so we sauntered across the road to Rathmines Library and had a browse for a little while. It is such a pleasant library so it was a nice thing to do of a Saturday afternoon.

Very quickly the time for the movie came upon us and so after Ciaran bought a Coke Zero and popcorn combo meal, we headed upstairs to cinema no. 9 which is the little 22 seat screening room. 

It was a great experience to watch the movie in this intimate setting (we were in the back row) and it brought me right back to 2018 when we saw David Byrne live in his American Utopia tour 

The music was awesome and it felt like you were actually at the concert - a few times after some songs both Ciaran and I gave a spontaneous little quiet clap and I saw a guy do the same a few rows ahead. It is such a unique concert as the additions to the stage are made. Quite mad really - but somehow makes sense.....

All in all a perfect way to spend a rainy afternoon and we didn't even mind walking home in the rain either!

Weekend Wrap Up!

It was a Bank Holiday weekend here in Ireland and as weekends go it was a pretty good one ending with some great new about Pigsy.

On Saturday morning, our plumber came and finished off the installation of a new heat regulating system for our underfloor heating. We now have the Heatmiser system and can control our heating on an app on our phones which is pretty nifty.

In the afternoon, I cycled in to the city to meet my mother and sister at the Bewleys Cafe Theatre. Amy was treating us to a show. We saw the play "Wringer" which was very enjoyable - well acted and a gripping story.

Sunday morning brought us to the Pot Bellied Pig in Rathmine for brunch. I had a delicious shakshuka and a glass of prosecco (noice!) and Ciaran had a full irish breakfast which he said was really good.

After brunch it was off to the Omniplex to see the new Freddie Mercury movie "Bohemian Rhapsody". Wow what a film. So sad to see that he was so young when he died. What a loss of talent.

Speaking of talent, I should mention that we went to see David Byrne in the the 3 Arena (will always be The Point to me) on Wednesday night. This was quite possibly the best gig I have ever been to in my whole life. It was eye opening as to what can be done live on stage with a 12 piece band. I've been singing his songs since then along with thinking about the performance. It was a terrifically choreographed performance with a powerful ending of "Hell you Talmabout". Just phenomenal in all senses.

And so to the great news that ended our weekend:

The Pigsy documentary will next be shown in London!

Come see it at the Irish Film Festival London which runs from the 21st to 25th of November with Pigsy being part of the Irish Film Shorts being shown on Thursday 23rd of Nov at 5.30pm. 

Just brilliant - I've already booked our flights!