You can’t stay in Cork all your life. You have to fly Aer Lingus to Paris for your birthday. You have to at least attempt to reach the summit - and return to base camp safely. You hear lots of people chattering French on the way. (Whatever you do book your ticket online. Otherwise you’ll queue for two hours to get to the cable car.)

Continuing to read Wanderlust - a history of walking. By Rebecca Solnit. Reading while walking. We meet a mushroom man in Moanbaun Wood.

Lost identity - Persistent hope. Recorded while driving to Toastmasters

Part 1

To get the full value of this episode - you'll have to listen in a silent room (perhaps even a vacuum). Because Simon & Jana speak very softly (and my studio volume control dial wasn't able to amplify the sound).

Bernard Stanley "Acker" Bilk, MBE (28 January 1929 – 2 November 2014) was an English clarinetist and vocalist ... "Stranger on the Shore" is the music I still listen to.

Part 2

Feeling guilty while listening to music doesn't feel right - does it?

Music you might not expect me to love:

"I'm the king of the jungle"

"The hills are alive with the sound of music"

"South Pacific".

The walk is dry & dark. The dog & the cat ... without a moon between them. Lot's of silence here

What music goes with breaking-up?

Leave of trees. Walking with Louis but without Rebecca Solnit. Learning how to make videos that are not perfection - but attract connection with your audience. You hear the sound of leaves underfoot being crinkled. "The space between the words, especially paragraphs, is where connection is mist likely to happen. County Kerry local people speak quickly - like people on Manhatten.

This is the song that makes me laugh, smile & smirk most. The one that lights up my life.

Your favourite? #Octaver2018 would love to hear what's your favourite.

This is Paul O'Mahony's Day 3 contribution to Octaver2018 - topic suggested by Stefano Landi @slandi, in Montreal, Canada.

You hear Jessye Norman sing from "Last Four Songs" by Richard Strauss.

You hear Allan Sherman sing from "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)

Recorded while walking in the dark with Louis - talking with horses - airplanes overhead - why it's better not to try and a few words with the pony rider

Reading on a walk in Moanbaun Wood - Paul meets a woman with a dog