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featuring an ever changing cast of interests including - art, books, bumblebees, climate, clouds, coffee, dogs, dublin, family, fingal, food, health, ireland, language, maps, nature, night sky, photos, reading, rewilding, sea, seals, swimming, trees...
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Everyone complaining about the weather - meanwhile in North Fingal... #kitesurfer #beach #rain #grey #red #fingal
kite surfer with an orange-red kite on a dull day on a rainy beach. there is wet sand and rocks in the foreground, the kite reflected on the wet sand. the weather is so dull it could be a black and white picture, except for the red kite and its reflection
November 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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he was so trusting of people...
November 28, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Trophy? This guy was so trusting of people, walking up to parkrunners, letting them take his picture.
He should have a sign on his side of the fence, "Beware Of Humans"
I hope they catch the criminal. #stag #donabate #newbridge #beheading #animalcruelty
photo of a stag behind a fence, curiously looking at the camera. on the left there is just visible an arm in a pink sports top, holding a phone to take a picture. On the fence is a small moss covered sign, it reads "Beware of the stag"
November 28, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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We've been trying to make early morning dog walks on the beach a habit
A picture of Rush beach, taken at low tide. It's portrait format with the image about halved by the water line in the distance. In the foreground is wet waved sand, reflecting some of the sunlight. The sky is pale blue, with cirrus clouds. The sun is a bright white ball at the top of the image, it's reflected in the distant water. Lambay island is visible albeit hazy.
August 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Not necessarily!
Photo of a boy with a yellow t shirt lying on his back on a trampoline, on cushions, reading a red book in the sunshine. Captioned 'best use of a trampoline'
May 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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North Fingal in May #Loughshinny #Seascape #Harbour #IrishSea
A view of Loughshinny harbour on an early evening in May, the tide is out, the sky is a pale, cloudless blue. On the left, the harbour wall and colourful beached boats. In the distance, on the right, a Martello tower and Lambay Island.
May 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 5/20

#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
December 18, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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Frosted sand ridges on a #Fingal #beach, in #November
Photograph taken in portrait format at dawn, at a beach in Fingal, Ireland. The top half shows the slowly brightening, clear sky, the bottom half shows ridged sand with frost on top creating a pattern of horizontal stripes, the dark sand and the frost reflecting the light from the sky are contrasting, emphasizing the ridges. Between these two halves a dog walker is visible in the distance on the left, some sand dunes on the right. The colour of the sky is mostly a very pale blue, bleeding into pale yellow and pale orange towards the horizon.
November 28, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 4/20
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
November 28, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 3/20
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
book cover of Aldous Huxley's Island. The cover has a black background with a see-through stylised bird, lit up with a yellow and white light. just the head, neck and one stretched up and curled around the bird's head wing is visible. The title island is printed in large black capitals on the wing. The word curves to follow the wings curvature. the top right of the cover spells in smaller capitals vintage (in yellow) and huxley (in white).
November 20, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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Oh maybe that's what I saw too!
November 20, 2024 at 8:49 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 2/20
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
book cover of Ruth Ozeki's The Book of Form & Emptiness. The background is cream, the author name is spelled in colourful capitals at the top of the cover above the title, and upside down in the same font, with dog eared edges for some of the letters. and in a jumbled manner, below the title. The title is printed in a black serif font. The colours used for the capital letters used for the author's name are light blue, dark blue, orange, yellow and a black with light speckles, giving a starry night impression
November 17, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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A rare, still, sunny, early autumn day at Skerries Harbour #redisland #fingal
A photo of Skerries harbour, the water is still, towards the camera it's transparent showing the sand and seaweed underneath, further back it reflects the very blue sky and some clouds. There are some light cirrus clouds in the sky, above colourful boats, many are red buy one is dark blue with a white and red stripe. The harbour wall curves away from the camera.
November 15, 2024 at 11:43 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 1/20
#Books
#BookSky
💙📚
#BookChallenge
book cover for "The brothers lion heart" by Astrid Lindgren, german version (Die Brueder Loewenherz). The watercolour illustration shows two boys sitting on a stone bridge, they wear medieval style clothes and the smaller boy holds a fishing rod. there are cherry trees in bloom in the background. The publisher is "Oetinger".
November 15, 2024 at 10:51 PM
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Seaweed on the beach #fingal #bluesky #seaweed
Beach photo, wet sand and seaweed in the foreground, islands in the distance, blue sky with a few white, fluffy clouds
November 15, 2024 at 9:08 PM
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Beach walk on a cloudy autumn day #fingal #beach #clouds
Photo of a beach with the ride out, on a cloudy day. Silhouettes of people in the distance, the sun just visible in a cloudy sky
November 15, 2024 at 9:03 PM
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A November poppy blossoming, a bright pop of colour? Or a red warning of global warming... #Ireland #climate #nature #mildweather
A single red poppy in an autumnal flower bed, lit up by the sun, in front of a cream coloured wall. Out of focus poppy buds and dandelion leaves.
November 15, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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#dog #beach #fingal
Black and white jack Russel cross running towards the camera, his image reflected on the wet beach
November 14, 2024 at 9:06 PM