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26/01/2017 5:54 pm
Chatter
Back then I would see them on a regular basis. Up and down O’Connell Street usually. A big man. His face all jowls and smiley. Bald as an egg. He wore a large trench coat. The lady plump. Shorter than him. Jet black hair making her look younger.
Salute them when passing. His response animated, eyebrows raised. She seemed reticent, shy. From her, a knowing glance.
They were always busy talking as they walked. Chat, chat, chat.
The last time I recall them was in the Kylemore Café. We nodded to each other. They relished their food. Took turns putting down their cutlery in their busy banter.
Outside the window a statue of James Joyce. Didn’t he talk of a clattery café? Inside, the noise of crockery and the din of people and forks and knifes and cups and saucers.
somehow calming
watching their conversation
the deaf couple
By Sean O'Connor
27/01/2017 8:28 am
Good fun, Sean! A charming surprise ending. You are the historic first poster in our Forum. Well done to negotiate the site.
29/01/2017 6:23 pm
What can we learn from your experience of joining the site and posting on the site?
03/02/2017 9:07 am
Great Sean, after the last line I had to go back again and caught the significance of them having to put down their cutlery. Clever!
03/02/2017 9:08 am
George, is there a way to get feeds / posts sent to our inboxes?
03/02/2017 9:18 am
You mean the whole post? You are getting the opening of it and the link to it so you can leap directly with one click. But this is a not a round robin multiplying email but a site where we have a more comfortable page on which to write and reply.
20/03/2017 11:36 pm
Loved this haibun but I have a problem with 'chattering' and 'talking' if they were in fact 'signing'. Could you get round this with something like 'animated conversation' or suchlike?
21/03/2017 11:37 pm
23/03/2017 7:54 am
A perfectly formed vignette ..... kind of like it is, seeing people you know by sight ..... then the surprise for us, the reader. Good I think to have them 'talking' and 'chatting' and you did give us the clue with the putting down of their cutlery (which I missed first reading). Liked the inside/outside aspect - both re the cafe and re their experience within the hub-bub.
Meg
02/04/2017 5:18 pm
Yes I meant just an email to say 'there's a new post on Redthread' or something, with a link. I don't get anything at present? Do others? I don't know if anyone has posted unless I open the site and have a look - which is fine, but it's nice to get an alert to my inbox if it's possible? Saves me having to take the initiative 🙂
02/04/2017 7:27 pm
...sorry George I think I figured out how to subscribe to the RSS feed by clicking 'Subscribe for new replies' at the top of this page. I'll see if it sends me a message alerting me to new posts.
04/04/2017 11:36 am
But also note, Heather, that there is a tick box on the bottom left of this panel, "Subscribe to this topic", so you can be sure that you get notified of any new posting on a piece of writing that interests you.
05/04/2017 7:10 am
Thanks George, I've managed to do that so I'm alerted to updates to this particular post, but can't see a way to get alerts to any new posts on the site. Not sure if that's possible? I've had no emails to my inbox to date?
05/04/2017 10:35 am
I know that I get notifications of every posting. Do you not? I've looked through our settings and it looks as though you should. Let me know if not and I'll fix it.
05/04/2017 1:13 pm
Thanks - no, I've not had any notification emails yet - except one for this topic, now that I've clicked the little square in the bottom left. Notifications for this thread are coming to heatherdyerbooks@gmail.com - I suppose that's the address on the list? I did originally subscribe to haikuprose with heatherdyer2@yahoo.co.uk (but no notifications have gone there either, I think).
Sorry for the bother! It would be great to get notifications for all new postings.
