When future archaeologists are making sense of the heavily-windowed extensions of the early 21st-century Irish, this will be his Great Pyramid of Giza. Down at the end of the garden, there is a corrugated iron shed that somehow touches Dermot’s corrugated iron heart. Diarmuid and Dermot retire to the deck of the former’s land boat and Diarmuid shows Dermot pictures of gardens. They discuss pampas grass, of which there is a specimen in Dermot’s garden. Down the back of the garden there’s a corrugated iron shed and an open-air bath, much like Old Man Steptoe might have in his garden.

Source: The Irish Times January 17, 2020 04:52 UTC