Sion Barry's World

You take the stairs, I'll take the lift. You still driving a car and playing a bass guitar? Oh I get it you want some money. Okay pal take the whole lot. Go on don't be shy there's 600 bucks in here... just take it... Jesus Christ man just take the money! You can always take the boat back to the hotel, there's one every 10 minutes. Just enjoy the pastry, you've worked really hard today. Well done and just relax. I've been in this elevator for hours. I want to get out. Time to scream!

Swirling leaves on a winter wind, like cats chasing tails Melancholic green park benches looking on as a solitary soul walks on.

There is a river running through here, sweeping past wondrous trees with golden leaves. Take me home, take me home. There is a light that shines so true and secure. Time to rest , time to rest The darkness holds no fear, the pain I no longer feel. Say farewell, but don't despair. I will be there, I will be there.

Are you looking at me? Can you hear me? Have you any idea, perhaps you don't know I'm near, or even here? I'm listening to music as you move out of sight, whistling obliviously and turning the corner at the last house in a row of contented terraces houses. You know what? I'm going the other way towards the open fields, which I guess will not be green for much longer. but it's the right, yes the right way.

My daughter's first day at school today. Location: St Mary's RC School in Canton. Cardiff. There are around seven Polish children too. My father started there I guess just before the end of WW2. She did very well... all grown up .

Dreamt the other night of noises from the attic. Had to explore, with my wife and daugther below very scared, (and so was I). I peered around to find a single bed to my left and then, as I turned to my right, a much larger bed with a huge man inside. He was quick to his feet and moving towards me. This was no polite social call. My wife had to wake me as I was punching the wardrobe.

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I just love trees Originally uploaded by sionbarry Trees are just great.

F rom here to there, I surely do care. I t grew on a tree at the end of a garden, I cannot be precise, but it came back to me the other day when clearing out old photographs... in black and whi te.

You see this so clear from over the hill And when you stand still your hands so gentle catch the wind Spinning my memories back to you A mother and child so pure and new

I first came here [pictured above] in circa 1972. I threw in a coin and wished not for a daughter born in the year 2006, but instead to win a gold medal in the 400 metres at the next Olympics. Ciao Sion

Breakfast: A strange, but engaging combination of a few Shreddies a Weetabix and some porridge oats with cold milk. Walk to Work Snow had fallen over night to leave a settling of quite a few inches in Cardiff. From my humble abode in Canton it was down Cowbridge Road East where I came upon Mr Aled Blake. He then described his dream of the two of us drinking wine at a classy joint in London, where the barman was a certain Wynford Emanuel - who plies his trade in Cardiff as a PR man! It was over Canton Bridge into the centre of Cardiff, a very nice structure on which a certain Lana Banan a from LA had a very bad experience back in the summer Lunch: A beef baguette and a mug of tea in Servini's Cafe I then had a walk around the city centre and came across the director of IBW Ian Williams in a cafe with some very dubious looking company [colleagues]... okay they were fine, just fine. Random Thought: When people in the psychiatric chair are asked to describe their childhoods, pe...

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