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Cinquecento
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Still working it out.
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Had to be done.
The family group chat. A pencil drawing of an owl; below “Dangerously Woke Youth”
October 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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G’wan. Make the bed. I dare you.
Black cat, curled up against a white, crumpled, duvet. Disarrayed pillows to the side. The cat is glaring at the camera (or, more likely, at the photographer), the jade green glare the only thing clearly discernible in his black coat.
September 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Using one photo already on your phone, what will the 2pm EST announcement be?
“Respect my trans homies or I’m gonna identify as a fuckin’ problem”
September 2, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Sometimes you just feel like going old school. Lettuce, tomato, potato, and cold tongue. #SaladyTea
Yellow plate with green butterhead lettuce, yellow salad potatoes, cold tongue, slices of red beef tomato. Dijon mustard and mayonnaise dotted around.
August 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Oh. Is Starmer’s spokesman not on the payroll then? Or speaking out of turn (while in dire need of some history and geography lesson s)?
Post from Adam Bienkov dated 18 August ‘Kier Starmer’s spokesman asked about author Sally Rooney’s plans to donate her royalties to Palestine Avtion, says that supporting the group is a terrorist offence and “obviously the police will implement the law”’
August 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Ummm. Though I suppose therapy is confession with feedback instead of penance.
The Pope, when he was still a priest.
August 3, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Cato is FEWMIN. And TRAGICALLY disappointed in me. (I fed the OTHER cat and the crunching of kibble can be heard from the kitchen.)
A marmalade cat, wearing quite the tragic expression, while stretched on the dining room table. The pot of hand cream is just there because I haven’t put it away yet.
July 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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These lilies are in the back garden. Their scent carries to the front garden.
Two yellow flowered lilies in a raised bed. A woman’s hand next to a lily flower for scale. The flower head is bigger.
July 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Pomegranate seeds, toasted pine nuts. Put on plate in that order, vinegaret to taste (I use raspberry vinegar). Pretty, tasty, and five minutes.
Goat’s cheese and pomegranate salad as described in the posts. (I forgot the pine nuts hashtag shopping fail)
July 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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I have NO IDEA what you’re talking about
Two pairs of glasses on a porcelain candlestick.
July 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Fig tree? They can grow in pots, though they prefer outdoors
A fig tree in the sun against a wall
July 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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@thebhp.bsky.social The posh fold-away bed (on the right). There’s a better example at the Famine Museum of what the less well-off had (flat to the floor, no drawers, rough planks) but I can’t bully google into finding me a picture (it’s happy to show me bougie bed dressing though 🤷🏻‍♀️)
Image from National Museum Collins Barracks with four pieces of “bedroom” furniture: a wooden rush-back and -seat chair, a semi- enclosed bed with straw pallet mattress, a willow child’s cot with rockers, a box bed (honestly), that unfolds to hold a mattress, stored in the top of the unit, and, when folded for daytime, holds the linen and cushions.
June 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Um. Do we have him on a time share?
Yu Ming, a white and black cat, sleeping on a table runner and being unreasonably cute.
June 29, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Made redcurrant jelly. Just need some lamb and some rosemary now.
A kilner jar of redcurrant jelly on a wooden counter top.
June 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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I wish Americans would read their founding documents. Slavery was and *is* allowed under the US constitution.
June 14, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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And I had a boiled egg (for breakfast)
A vase of lilacs.
May 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Least I could do. The book originated from your part of the world. 🤷🏻‍♀️
May 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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I think it’s one of the finches.
Pages 278 and 279 the Hamlin Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe describing the characteristics of finches and with drawings of each one.
May 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Gardening brings its own rewards.
A glass topped garden table with two pairs of secateurs, a pair of gardening gloves, and a margarita. In the background a white hydrangea, a rose bush, a sambuca nigra, and various geraniums.
May 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Happy birthday. This is Blue. Blue is NOT about to start cleaning his tummy, so upsetting the delicate balance he has achieved by perching on the back of the dining chair and the dining table. NO scratches will be left on the table, and his owner WILL NOT snort tea out of her nose.
Blue, a large and fluffy Irish farm cat, lying on his back across a chair back and a table, back legs akimbo, while cleaning his fur. On the table is a small tablecloth, some chopping boards, and a mug of tea.
May 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Big shout out to whoever dropped this off at the bottom of my driveway in #Lisacul. You obviously know I’m a bit lazy about taking my bin in. But let me tell you what I know about you.

1. You’re even lazier than I am.
2. You have access to a car.
Black plastic bin bag full of cans, plastic bottles, and glass bottles.
April 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Non-religious Irish. So there’s an Easter Egg hunt (with age appropriate clues).

But, in the past, there was just OUTRAGEOUSLY spoiling the First Great Niece.

(One of my earliest sensory memories is the taste of that sugar icing)
Old photograph (early 1960s) of a toddler ferociously concentrating on extracting a heavily decorated Easter egg from its wrapping.
April 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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The Village puts on a play every year and it’s the best, and most exhausting, thing I do here. With less than a week to go, I basically running on chocolate, tea, and ibuprofen and loving every minute.
Poster for the Village Play with a very 50s-esque graphic of two men fighting, with a woman between them. Text reads: “Love Thy Neighbour Fri 25th Sat 26th April. Lisacul Community Centre. It’s almost here so make sure you have your tickets. Available from Imelda Towey Ballaghaderreen. Lisacul Resource Centre from Tuesday.
April 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Like this?
Plan and cross section of a Slave Ship showing how many human beings could be held on board (as long as they didn’t want to move or turn over or stand up).
April 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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When the local shop has cream cheese and a neighbour has an excess of wild garlic. Well, it would be a sin not to.
Cream cheese and wild garlic on two halves of a baguette, sitting on a bright yellow pottery plate.
March 28, 2025 at 6:42 PM