Twenty One today, Twenty One today, whose got the key to the door. yes the inWokingham podcast is twenty one today. So

Indeed Welcome to Indigo Whisky O Two One for the 18th of September 2007.

Another report from West of Dingle in the green land of Eire. The Indian summer lasted over a week and now the mixed weather has set in, albeit warmer than usual. Back to sun, showers and rain, wind and calm. It's still warmer in Wokingham during the day but Dingle hold its own with warmer overnight temps.

The signs of the end of the summer are here, being an hour further west this is a time of year when we can maximise the daylight by rising with the sun at 6:30 and retiring as the sun sets behind the mountain at 9pm. The first swallows have formed large groups and departed for the South, it was a good year for those swallows and we had some nesting around the sheds for the first time in several years. The later hatchlings are swooping and wheeling, feasting on the abundant flying food basket to build their strength for their journey south, those that left in the last couple of days will have had a helping hand from the strong northern winds that blew up.

The remaining birds are busy sorting out their territories, the three robins have each got to have their own, the wagtails seem content to share, the Jackdaw adults have their chimney and the youngsters will have to be content with the trees, the wrens have plenty of fushia hedging to divide up and the starlings a gathering in great flocks. The Magpies and the Crows are still picking at each other.

My hopes for better Internet connectivity this far west in Europe were raised by the startup of a new isp, but a shortage of aerials and the high prices per month and for the setup mean its back to the internet cafe for the moment. 3 the UK mobile phone service provider offer 3G data service in Ireland and have connectivity in this area so I am going to look at their offering.

So I haven't had a lot of news from Wokingham this week, but I was pleased to hear news of www.bbc.co.uk/radio5 BBC Radio Five Pods and Blogs show , a programme that airs through the night on BBC digital streams, had a report from the first PodcampUK, the un-conference we attended at the beginning of the month that was held in Birmingham. Chris Vallance from the Radio5 attended the 2 day event and recorded a few interviews including one with myself. Part of that interview was featured in the show and I welcome any new listeners who have joined me after hearing that report.

I said in the interview how I like to contrast life in Wokingham with that elsewhere and my current trip around Ireland gives me much inspiration. Wokingham used to have a proper football stadium and team, but when the stadium was sold to housing developer's the team disappeared from popular comment, I recall the previous enthusiasm of the supporters that was driven home when I saw the Black and Yellow of the team colours on one of dozens of football scarf's pinned to the ceiling and walls of the Ponderosa restaurant on highway 108 in Orlando. Mixed in amongst other UK clubs including the red of Man.United, the blue of Chelsea, and the canary yellow of Norwich the restaurant manager, who hailed from England, said that regular customers had started donating their scarf's some years ago and he was proud of the collection. It was interesting that this particular restaurant, although part of a franchise chain was owned by the manager rather than simply being managed by him and a lot of English and Irish visitors to Orlando seek this place out for breakfast and dinner. Unlike the others in the chain, this establishment had the ice cream machine up and running at breakfast. This gave a great treat to the kiddies who after some cereal or the like to satisfy their parents, headed straight to the whippy machine for chocolate, strawberry and vanilla whirls of ice cream.

The manager said when he took over the place the machine was always off for cleaning in the morning, but he had seen the disappointment of the kids, particularly the English and Irish ones and so he tried making it available and it was a great success on two fronts, with less of the regular stuff, sausage, rashers hash browns etc, being taken and not eaten, more English customers seeking the place out and more profit as the ice cream is a low cost item to supply in the all you can eat buffet breakfast selection.

This connection with football and the enthusiasm of supporters was also reinforced this last weekend when the All Ireland Gaelic Football final took place on Sunday afternoon. After a week of joshing, picking and poking between the two teams the match felt as though it had already been played over, but eighty thousand packed the National stadium in Dublin and most of those had travelled up to 200 miles for the event, setting of by bus, train and car from County Cork in the far south west and County Kerry the bordering county to the North. Always the greatest rivals, a match and especially a championship final saw The red and white of Cork and the green and gold of Kerry side by side in so many homes that have a corkie and kerryeir in the same family.

Well the result was a stonking 35 th  win for Kerry and a great disappointment for Cork. The analysis will continue for the rest of the year, but the common or garden Irishman has a love for all and any sport and with the Rugby World cup taking place in France, and the Soccer season starting there is plenty to look forward to.

The Madeline McCann Story continues its meanderings with Kate and Jerry McCann being made formal suspects. Kate McCannn gave an interesting and honest sounding interview with the BBC programme Womans Hour which was available as a Podcast for off-line listening.

The report of the Foot and Mouth outbreak being contained proved to me wrong, with another case being discovered south of Heathrow in a place called Egham, which is far less rural than the area around Guildford but obviously still has some dairy farms. This is disappointing news and I hope the cause and transmission route is identified quickly. Ireland still has a great farming economy and they are rightly concerned about visitors bringing disease into Eire, and providing antiseptic sprays as you left the ferry and are banning cheese, butter and raw meat imports from Great Britain.

Now to finish I have chosen a track from the PMN by a prolific podsafe artist who has a lot great tracks listed. There seems to be an rights for the animal world theme behind many of her tracks and she is obviously a passionate person.

Intro to M aria Daines Too Late 22secs

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But politics aside, there are great guitar rifes, great voicing and great production in all the tracks. Check the track Too Late or House of the Rising Sun. But we are going to play another track, Maria Daines performs. “night-for-the-lonely”

Maria Daines  

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M aria Daines Night-for-the-lonely

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