Louise McSharry

And I think this is just worth saying it's for the birds own good, right, Carl?

I feel like this is not the first time in the last week I've sung that song I don't know what's going on in my life well I'll tell you what's going on in my life dead animals are being left outside my front door that's what's going on one of the cats in the neighborhood I think has taken a shine to me and has decided to bring me presents because first it was a tiny mouse and then I've had two birds in the last three days

maybe it's a good omen you know well they they apparently this is the thing that cats they bring you it's they think they're bringing you a present yeah i've never had i've never sort of seen this behavior up close oh it's it's very real it's a thing it's a thing um but i'm a i think the technical term is chicken shit and i absolutely cannot handle it at all and so and like in my previous life i would have made gordon handle all of these things

But now that I do not always have a Gordon, the other night, the other day, I had to try and get the kids to the car and there was a mouse on the path.

And it was, yeah, it was a whole thing.

Oh, I like made a fool of myself.

I had to call my neighbor to help me.

Like, it's ridiculous.

But I did manage to move a bird.

I did do that today.

So your girl's grown up.

her life she used like a shovel or something or what did you what did you do yeah basically yeah yeah not ideal such a tiny bird as well but also because ted was like trying to encourage he was like mom you have to do what you have to do because he wanted to go outside and he couldn't go outside while it was there and i was he was like just try and do it without looking at it and i was like that's impossible like you can't you can't do it but yeah look i'm a grown-up apparently so these are the things i have to do

um okay look we're gonna wrap up and i'm gonna let you enjoy your bank holiday monday carl thank you so much for taking the time to chat me through the week's stories and uh we will be back next week of course in the meantime if you want more carl and i know that you do you can get more over at the journal.ie he writes a weekly column surrealing in the years he also wrote an extra treat column about the giant this week if you simply did not get enough of carl on the giant in our chat there's more there

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Karl, thank you very much.

There you have it, my friends.

Thank you so much for being with me today.

And I really hope you enjoyed that.

I particularly enjoyed Carl talking about the giant.