Head over to NSU Breast Fedennis. Welcome to the Blind By Podcast. Thank you for the magnificent

response to last week's podcast. I had the wonderful David Cohn on the podcast who is a

stone lifter and he's metaphorically and literally on our thing folkloric traditions in

Ireland. By finding stones and lifting them, go back and listen to that podcast if you didn't

hear it. It was a riveting chat with a fascinating person and he wanted me to tank ye as well

for the feedback and for how many people followed him on Instagram and he has set up a

Patreon page too. I'm a busy boy at the moment. I'm currently in the final stages of editing

my book Top of Graphia Hibernika which is coming out this November. So I've been working

more or less non-stop from when I wake up in the morning until I got to bed and in the

middle I've been writing and editing and drinking lots of sparkling water mainly because if I'm

working 14 or 15 hours a day and habitually drinking something which I like doing I want

that substance to be relatively in-art. I limit myself to two cups of coffee a day and 10

pints of tea a day but then as many bottles of sparkling water as I like because it's just water

and carbon dioxide. It keeps me incredibly hydrated and I very much enjoy the violence of the

effervescence on my tongue. Sparkling water is one of the few little treats that you can drink

continuously with nori precautions whatsoever. I mean I could drink still water all day long too

and receive nori precautions but still water isn't any crack. Sparkling water is crack. If I drink

too much tea then there's a certain amount of caffeine in there. Sugary drinks, you get a bit of

a sugar rush and then you get a slump but even diet drinks. Technically they don't contain sugar

but I don't trust them. There's too much pleasure in something like a diet fanta. There's too

much pleasure in the drink. I even diet seven up. I just feel it's open to abuse but not sparkling water.

I can never abuse sparkling water. I can drink sparkling water all day long. I even have a

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