Diana Spencer
@dianajspencer.bsky.social
Dean of Liberal Arts & Natural Sciences, Birmingham (UK), Professor of Classics; When not at work, I'm home in Dublin (or Italy) 🇮🇪 🇪🇺
Personal account. Also @dianajspencer@mastodon.ie, @dianajspencer
Personal account. Also @dianajspencer@mastodon.ie, @dianajspencer
Walked back to the flat from work and there was such a glow to the canal and its creatures.
March 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Walked back to the flat from work and there was such a glow to the canal and its creatures.
Exhausted and sneezy after our offer-holder day. I was dosed up on paracetamol and decongestant and really enjoyed the conversations with future interdisciplinarians. But I’m feeling the crash now…
March 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Exhausted and sneezy after our offer-holder day. I was dosed up on paracetamol and decongestant and really enjoyed the conversations with future interdisciplinarians. But I’m feeling the crash now…
The squirrels failed to eat all the feral garlic!!!! Phew 🤗
March 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The squirrels failed to eat all the feral garlic!!!! Phew 🤗
Books do furnish a room (Powell) ☺️
March 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Books do furnish a room (Powell) ☺️
What a glorious sunny morning on campus. Makes my heart sing 😁
March 4, 2025 at 11:41 AM
What a glorious sunny morning on campus. Makes my heart sing 😁
After a delightful day, time for a drop…(thanks to very generous friends) ☺️
March 1, 2025 at 10:19 PM
After a delightful day, time for a drop…(thanks to very generous friends) ☺️
Headed over to Bongo Ryan’s (full of the kind of people I’d be trying to avoid, I’ve not been in since the 70s and it is not at all as I remembered it) after Collins Barracks. Happened to pass another 70s stalwart, the Ashling Hotel. Recalls me to Seán Dunne’s poem. comeheretome.com/2013/05/22/l...
March 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Headed over to Bongo Ryan’s (full of the kind of people I’d be trying to avoid, I’ve not been in since the 70s and it is not at all as I remembered it) after Collins Barracks. Happened to pass another 70s stalwart, the Ashling Hotel. Recalls me to Seán Dunne’s poem. comeheretome.com/2013/05/22/l...
‘A meeting’ (Harry Clarke), excerpted from the small but perfect exhibition running at Collins Barracks @nmireland.bsky.social
March 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
‘A meeting’ (Harry Clarke), excerpted from the small but perfect exhibition running at Collins Barracks @nmireland.bsky.social
I’m always trying to combine supporting local industries and farmers with delighting myself. Two blankets from Cushendale Woollen Mills (Graignamanagh) have ticked all the boxes (plus it’s near the family home).
March 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I’m always trying to combine supporting local industries and farmers with delighting myself. Two blankets from Cushendale Woollen Mills (Graignamanagh) have ticked all the boxes (plus it’s near the family home).
The weather is likely to turn tomorrow but today was a perfect spring day. Indeed, 22° in the sun up in town when we went to the butchers 🤗
February 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The weather is likely to turn tomorrow but today was a perfect spring day. Indeed, 22° in the sun up in town when we went to the butchers 🤗
I can’t wait to be back in the dead zoo…
February 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I can’t wait to be back in the dead zoo…
Merrion Square determined to perform “Spring”…
February 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Merrion Square determined to perform “Spring”…
My Colosseum air plant has unexpectedly dropped one of its babies off. Now it has a rock of its own. Not too premature I hope 🤞
February 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
My Colosseum air plant has unexpectedly dropped one of its babies off. Now it has a rock of its own. Not too premature I hope 🤞
Look at this amazing cormorant from my walk down the Grand Canal earlier — I think it’s a cormorant based on the Irish Wildlife Trust… iwt.ie/species-in-f....
February 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Look at this amazing cormorant from my walk down the Grand Canal earlier — I think it’s a cormorant based on the Irish Wildlife Trust… iwt.ie/species-in-f....
Positive start with sunshine/frost making things sparkle, then a great SUaW session organised by a colleague. I made significant headway with editing/cutting the dratted Propertius chapter.
February 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Positive start with sunshine/frost making things sparkle, then a great SUaW session organised by a colleague. I made significant headway with editing/cutting the dratted Propertius chapter.
Just finished reading this — a loan from a good friend and remarkable as a parable and sparely told ecology of collapse with Paradise/primitivism motifs and some powerful exploration of archetypes.
February 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Just finished reading this — a loan from a good friend and remarkable as a parable and sparely told ecology of collapse with Paradise/primitivism motifs and some powerful exploration of archetypes.
This morning’s visitor…
February 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This morning’s visitor…
We see a fair few of what I’m never sure are cormorants or shags on the Dodder (between Ballsbridge and the Liffey). There’s a load usually sunning themselves down at Grand Canal basin. They’re beautiful (and in a strange way preposterous)…
February 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
We see a fair few of what I’m never sure are cormorants or shags on the Dodder (between Ballsbridge and the Liffey). There’s a load usually sunning themselves down at Grand Canal basin. They’re beautiful (and in a strange way preposterous)…
(Un)fortunate juxtaposition there…
February 3, 2025 at 7:31 AM
(Un)fortunate juxtaposition there…
The pop of the red berries in the middle distance through my office window are very cheering 😊
January 30, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The pop of the red berries in the middle distance through my office window are very cheering 😊
We went to see the Scottish swap/loan Turners @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social this morning. Despite the stormy conditions buffeting us. Do go, if you get a chance (ends, as ever, 31/1).
January 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
We went to see the Scottish swap/loan Turners @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social this morning. Despite the stormy conditions buffeting us. Do go, if you get a chance (ends, as ever, 31/1).
First walk on the strand this year 🤗
January 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
First walk on the strand this year 🤗