The astonishing lives of ordinary people...

Dervla Murphy, Irish travel writer who died …….April 2022, she spoke at her home to an interviewer from The Financial Times, who was "instructed by her publisher to bring along some 'really good cheddar'. And beer."

​ During the conversation Murphy "claim[ed] to have no time to dwell on the past because she finds so much in current events to worry about, following the news on the BBC World Service radio and Al Jazeera on her computer because she has no desire for — indeed, has never owned — a television." and said that, "There are so many books to be read. The problem is, at 90, there isn’t enough time to read them all."

I recently ordered her book, Full Tilt, Ireland to India with a Bicycle.  Yes, on a bicycle!