Red, rounded, autumn tempts me into the damp outside

I enjoyed this talk so much, learned so much of importance (including how deadly poisonous this elegantly 'rewilded' flower is growing up our pear tree)!

Brilliantly inspiring presenters for today's symposium in Uni College Cork, for example Prof Claire Connolly MRIA, Feargal Keane & Eoin Reardon who brought some of his vernacular-inspired furniture: celebrating 100 yrs of publishing by Cork University Press @ucc.ie @ucclibrary.bsky.social @ria.ie

Tremendous detail here; carts with huge, wooden-hooped staved containers, coiled straw baskets & hardy women carrying loads on their heads of such an impressive abundance of grapes. Our Irish apples are bountiful this september (but I'd love the rural army to gather them!)

Ok it's a plan
I hugely appreciate your encouragement & expertise, having proudly established large patch of Knapweed & some Oxe eye daisies...

And I like his protective radial sun sign, on his shield...

We use a Victorian Gardener's pruning tool called a 'long arm', to cut hard-to-reach brambles etc. Neglecting to store it in the shed, it was lent in a porch where 'swallows against neat gardens' moved in reminding us to continue our rewilding plan, instead! Long arm will stay put til Oct. now...

I'll be talking on @rteradio1.bsky.social The History Show on Sun 30 March from 6pm, about 'Joining in Butter' (Ch.16 of 'Irish Food History a Companion'); hear how Irish women collaborated to profit from their butter making pre 1880. @ria.ie

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