‘Tilt’ and ‘Table’ are two concepts you wouldn’t think go together well. If you want a table, you want it sturdy and stable, no tilt. Except, that is, if you got to lie on top of the table, get strapped in and then get tilted. Up.

I got a phone call this morning from one of Pádraig’s physios asking could we come in at 13:30 because he was going to get a surprise double session today. So we went early. When we walked into the room, he was standing! Ok, he had a bit of help but he was standing. Almost vertically. Can you imaging this? It has almost been a year that all of Pádraig’s 2.04m (that is 6’7″ for those still living in the ‘imperial’ world) had been in an almost vertical position. One of the therapists explained the magnitude of what was going on to Pádraig by saying he had just run a marathon. So they gave him a rest, lowered him down a little, and, as soon as he had ‘recovered’ a bit, had a second go. In the end, it hadn’t just been a marathon, but an ironman.

Get ready for the O’Malley Clan Table Quiz tomorrow evening at 9pm in Crokers, Murroe, Co. Limerick. Already 128 tickets have been taken up, according to the latest news, an incredible amount of people will join the O’Malleys tomorrow night in Murroe. Pádraig’s grandmother was Brenda O’Malley O’Byrne and she had many relations in Murroe and the surrounding areas. Just around 1,000 people are living in Murroe today, in a village founded in the 1830s by the Barrington family, who lived in the now Glenstal Abbey monastery and boarding school from 1926. It is really extraordinary what the O’Malleys are doing and what they are putting together for the night.

Here is a quick report by Raphael on yesterday’s run through Dublin’s tropical temperatures!

 

Hi Reinhard,
Raphael here. Just reporting back to say the legal eagles’ run went very well this evening. It was hot, hot, hot! 25degrees on the quays of the Liffey at 6 in the evening is certainly not typical Dublin weather! But no one was complaining at all. The sunshine just added another perfect dimension to the warmth generated by lots of lovely youngsters (and this Not so young “reporter/runner!) running their hearts out on a summers evening for a wonderful cause.
When chatting afterwards  to some of our summer interns who had joined us for the run, I discovered that they know some of the brave souls who conquered the Irish coastline on the Snámh Phádraig  a little while ago. So, the circles of Padraig’s wonderful friends just keep on interweaving, don’t they? There were certainly very good vibes making their way to Padraig from the Docklands of Dublin tonight. And just an amusing postscript: This runner had thought she was going to be a walker tonight, but having cut the ribbon at the start, she looked in vain for a walking companion….there was none!! Everyone was running..so she had to follow suit and run too!! – Totally unprepared for running (I thought I’d given up running a few years ago!) but I found my wings ok (or maybe an amused Angel pinned a pair of wings to my back for the occasion?) 🙂
Best and warmest wishes as always, Raphael

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Today’s (German) Music Tip
Udo Lindenberg, Nichts haut einen Seemann um (live 2008). A great, relatively recent version of one of Udo’s first songs, from the days of the Panikorchester in Hamburg’s Bunker. Thomas Kretschmer was the brilliant guitarist in those days (‘Daumen im Wind’), and she is here again as Carola Kretschmer playing a really great solo. So there are half a dozen of stories going on here in this recording!
What’s hot
Tilt tables
What’s cold
Empty batteries
The German word/phrase/verse of the day
Kipptisch