Bernard O'Shea

There is these great little kind of... If you go online, I'm sure there's loads of them, but newspapers used to run them, the shortest stories in the world.

Oh, right, yeah.

And some of them are heartbreaking, like, baby's shoes for sale never worn.

You know, and that would be the shortest story ever.

You know, so there's some of them like that.

So it's like...

Denim jacket cut up used as trousers on the Westport train for other reasons that I can't disclose right now.

P.O.

box.

It was like stuff like that.

They're the books I'm going to write now in the future.

Do you know, I am actually going to put stuff together and send it off to... I've had great relationships with publishers in Ireland.

I just haven't got my finger out and just put together something half decent.

And I should, because I write every day.

Just two.

Just the two.

So I have three books and three kids.

So I should do the third, really.

yeah yeah yeah it is thank you very much now thanks very much that's something like my mother would say it's two more than most isn't it get in there now and do your stuff yeah I don't like this it's a recurring thing that you credit me with saying things that your mother would have said so I don't know how I feel about that she has great advice I still say the greatest advice I've ever gotten on Parrington came from my mother

Give them a little basin of water and a few cups and a few things to clean and they'll be fine.