Matthew O'Connor
@matthewoconnor.bsky.social
My daughter is autistic, my son is not. They're equally annoying. Currently married to @helenskywalker.bsky.social
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This boy just bought me a pint. I thought time only happened to other people.
December 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This boy just bought me a pint. I thought time only happened to other people.
Why can't I work out who the young woman is in this photo stood beside me?! This must be how Prince Andrew felt.
September 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Why can't I work out who the young woman is in this photo stood beside me?! This must be how Prince Andrew felt.
DAMMIT. If that kestrel had flown off with that deer, National Geographic would owe me at least TWO Michaela Strachans.
August 13, 2025 at 11:09 PM
DAMMIT. If that kestrel had flown off with that deer, National Geographic would owe me at least TWO Michaela Strachans.
Dinner in the Morvan forests of Burgundy to meet the in-laws.
August 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Dinner in the Morvan forests of Burgundy to meet the in-laws.
Burgundy is pretty right now.
August 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Burgundy is pretty right now.
Oh my. Pub dog.
August 3, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Oh my. Pub dog.
I take back my previous statement:
June 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I take back my previous statement:
I could not love this more.
Here’s Harpo again on a much earlier encounter with Gershwin:
June 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I could not love this more.
Helen was as smart as she was courageous, funny, and kind. I'll miss her. You wouldn't regret giving some of her writing a go: helendecruz.net
June 20, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Helen was as smart as she was courageous, funny, and kind. I'll miss her. You wouldn't regret giving some of her writing a go: helendecruz.net
Bored. Bach (not that one). Long lunch.
June 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Bored. Bach (not that one). Long lunch.
John Berger (especially To The Wedding), Nabokov (the lot), and Iris Murdoch (especially The Sea, The Sea).
Novels to re-read every decade or so, because you see something new and more insightful in them each time as you get older. The Austen canon certainly. Middlemarch. Anna Karenina. War and Peace. Crime and Punishment. Bleak House. Other suggestions?
How true. Currently re reading the Jane Austen canon for first time since my teens. Utterly different experience. Richer, funnier, even more insightful
June 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
John Berger (especially To The Wedding), Nabokov (the lot), and Iris Murdoch (especially The Sea, The Sea).
Seen this masterpiece, @seanjones.org?
June 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Seen this masterpiece, @seanjones.org?
Try as I might, I can't quite get the hang of this website. One day I'll summon the gumption/caprice to leave X. But for now, I'll just use this account to periodically say Hiya! to @seanjones.org, whose enviable decency and frivolity is much missed in this head. Hi Sean!
May 30, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Try as I might, I can't quite get the hang of this website. One day I'll summon the gumption/caprice to leave X. But for now, I'll just use this account to periodically say Hiya! to @seanjones.org, whose enviable decency and frivolity is much missed in this head. Hi Sean!
Either the Vatican dropped the ball on the #popeLeo DD clearance or is ramping up for an apocalyptic row.
I am not sure that any of us is ready for a Pope who tweets in a personal capacity, speaks fluent English and can therefore engage in public American debates, if he so chooses
May 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Either the Vatican dropped the ball on the #popeLeo DD clearance or is ramping up for an apocalyptic row.
Took maniac for dinner in Islington. If it's not so noisy that she runs away screaming, she's awesome company.
February 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Took maniac for dinner in Islington. If it's not so noisy that she runs away screaming, she's awesome company.
COMPETITION: See if you can find Alice (she's wearing camouflage) in this photo:
February 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
COMPETITION: See if you can find Alice (she's wearing camouflage) in this photo:
Castle Kirk on Lough Corrib in Connemara, where my mother's from. Honestly, I've not pissed about with the colour settings. If you get lucky, this is exactly what it looks like just after dusk. It's magical. And fucking terrifying if you're six and your mad uncle is throwing bats at you.
January 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Castle Kirk on Lough Corrib in Connemara, where my mother's from. Honestly, I've not pissed about with the colour settings. If you get lucky, this is exactly what it looks like just after dusk. It's magical. And fucking terrifying if you're six and your mad uncle is throwing bats at you.
I visited a chapel designed by an architect friend yesterday. My God, it is utterly glorious:
January 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I visited a chapel designed by an architect friend yesterday. My God, it is utterly glorious:
In 1996, reporting on Utd vs. Liverpool FA Cup final where Cantona got the late winner, the journalist Hugh McIlvanney wrote the headline "All the Better for Being Cast Before Swine". I think of that sentence often, including when watching the good Bishop imploring Trump to temper his hatred.
This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.
January 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
In 1996, reporting on Utd vs. Liverpool FA Cup final where Cantona got the late winner, the journalist Hugh McIlvanney wrote the headline "All the Better for Being Cast Before Swine". I think of that sentence often, including when watching the good Bishop imploring Trump to temper his hatred.
@kadambari.bsky.social - Bizarrely, I was just searching through some DMs on another platform, and I came across a dialogue way more articulate than my typical exchanges. I couldn't identify my correspondent until To The Wedding cropped up. Then I knew it was you! Hope you're well! M
January 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
@kadambari.bsky.social - Bizarrely, I was just searching through some DMs on another platform, and I came across a dialogue way more articulate than my typical exchanges. I couldn't identify my correspondent until To The Wedding cropped up. Then I knew it was you! Hope you're well! M
Happy New Year to you all x
January 1, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Happy New Year to you all x
Lionel Blue was a cracking dude. I miss him.
December 20, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Lionel Blue was a cracking dude. I miss him.
December 14, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Reposted by Matthew O'Connor
It had better be fucking Christmas.
December 12, 2024 at 11:38 PM
It had better be fucking Christmas.