I'm loving it, yes. He's great, and the voice from the Drivetime diaries is there in my head. I think that's what's making me read slowly as he has such a fantastic way of intoning his words and making each one of those broadcasts sacramental. I read his early short stories when they first came out in 'group' volumes and for various reasons I've got a huge sentimental attachment to Desperadoes. I love Synge, and Molly reminds me of Judith Hearne too, so it's working for me in lots of ways ...
I must avoid wine though so I don't get giddy and do my academical clodhopping all over the discussion. [gagged version of the blush emoticon] If I do, I'll shut my ears in the oven like one of the Harry Potter characters we've been reading about here.
Arf at all the role-playing. DD2 wants to be a digger driver when she grows up. 
The only slight trauma here is that I've been offered 5 hours of teaching for the Arthurs (Copyright UU) on two separate days and I've to try and manage this without putting the girls out too much. The courses are new which is why I'm being offered them and if I pass them up, then whoever takes them this year will always have first option on them. It's only two years until I can put all the teaching on one day and do it while the gang are in school. It'll be 12 weeks of faff though. 