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covered in cat hair / The Edge once let me out in traffic on Pearse Street
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Sitting in a pub with two Cork men and they are having a Very Serious Discussion about what forms of potato should be served with the Christmas dinner. I love this country #speirghorm
November 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Just catching the end of a 2010 concert on BBC4 with various artists performing Nick Drake songs. I know almost nothing about him except the odd song here and there. This is excellent if anyone can track it down again. #Speirgorm
November 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Bouncy landing at Dublin airport earlier prompted some clapping from the People Who Clap When Planes Land. A few threw a smile and a “fair play to him!” at the cabin crew as they got off. #Speirgorm
November 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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In the year of our lord 2025, a hotel does not have any sockets beside the bed #Speirgorm
November 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Is it just me or do all Father John Misty songs go on forever? #Speirgorm
November 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Missing cat, Balbriggan area
Missing cat, Balbriggan area
November 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
elaineedwards.bsky.social
I would go to bed but my legs are under here. #Speirgorm
A large grey and white fluffy cat lies on its back on a blanket with all of its paws facing upwards and its big fluffy belly exposed. Its tail is sticking out between its two hind legs. There are human legs underneath the blanket resting on the chair, which may not be obvious from the picture.
November 3, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Cats to the vet today for routine stuff. This lad is nearly 7kg. “He might be *a bit* large, maybe,” the vet says. #Speirgorm
A large orange and white cat peers with big eyes out through the grille of a cat carrier he just about fitted into.
October 28, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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The problem with watching beginners’ videos for kettlebell exercises and so on is the bit where you have to look up what “quads and glutes” are. #Speirgorm
October 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Not sure if Jodie Foster has ever appeared in a weirder film than Flightplan, on my television now. #Speirgorm
October 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Somehow missed that Richard Hawley is performing the entire Coles Corner album tonight in the Olympia in Dublin, 20 years after its release. 👀

Gig reports welcome #Speirgorm
October 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Tomorrow I'll be in Liverpool, so here's a sketch I did there a couple of years back, on the day we interred my mother's ashes in her hometown - as I cycled to Waterloo and sketched this group of buildings on South Rd before returning to family and going to the cemetery. #ArtYear #UrbanSketching
Landscape format in loose watercolours and ink lines, of a 3-storey red-brick (with lines of relief decoration) terrace - the top storey being ornate dormer windows, with a couple of modern 2-storey buildings attached at the far (right) end. The gable end is visible at left end with a similar period 2-storey red-brick house attached at the rear to the left. Middle story windows are angled bays. Ground floor is stone bricks in rendered in yellows with large dark windows and arched doorways. Shops and parked cars are loosely sketched on right half. Handwriting along top: Waterloo Buildings, South Road, Waterloo, Liverpool - Friday, August 19, 2022
October 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Ah here.
October 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Mercury Music Prize kicking off on BBC4. #Speirgorm 🎤🎸
October 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Watching Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry at the BBC from a few weeks ago and had somehow missed that he turned 80 in September. God almighty.
October 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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The “Chapelizard Bypass” on the traffic update again on the radio.
October 8, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Got to love Dublin. #Speirgorm
Picture of a large junction box on the street at the top of Kildare Street at Stephen’s Green in Dublin, Ireland. On it is painted a very large, angry-looking seagull in front of two wooden gates. Two tiny people, dwarfed by the seagull, appear to be running from it, one on either side of the lower front of the image. The text over the gates reads St Stephen’s Green. The signature in the lower right of the image says M. Fitz 25.
October 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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eolai.bsky.social
Have a #painting. "West Cork Trees" came out of cycling past these lads several times out west of Clonakilty where I would catch a glimpse of them through a gap in a hedgerow and despite how far they were away they would always arrest me. I hope they're doing ok. #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear #BlueSkyMonday
Landscape format in acrylic on canvas. On far side of a pale grey-green field with tufts of short vertical strokes of green and blue, is a small dark-green broken hedgerow about one running horizontally, about one quarter the way up from the bottom, and from it grow 2 trees both with twisting branches of green and red without foliage and then some clumps of blue-green foliage just at their extremities. Beyond trees is another field, rendered as a narrow strip of blazing orange and at far side is line of trees and bushes in paler blue-green than the near hedgerow. Sky is pale blue in the top half with some strips of clouds high up, but the bottom half of the sky directly behind the trees down to the horizon is one large dark mass of billowing clouds topped with lighter fluffy edges of almost white. Signed bottom right: Liam Daly
October 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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There he is now, Declan Nerney on The Late Late Show.
October 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
jane goodall made me believe i could just go up and hug any wild animal
October 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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@aodhbc.bsky.social You might like this Hugo. www.bbc.com/reel/video/p...
Washi: The Japanese paper crafted to last 1,000 years
Ancient documents made with washi, the hand-crafted Japanese paper, are proof of its remarkable longevity.
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September 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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A #painting from Ireland's south coast. "Ardmore" is an exalted place for me, not because of the Round Tower, but because when I was small I stayed in a caravan and every day you'd jump over the dunes to the beach after first eating a bowl of Puffa Puffa Rice. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #TidesOutTuesday
Square format in acrylics on canvas. View from a height at, in the foreground, the ruined remains of an abbey and dominating the picture a stone 12th century Round Tower rendered mostly in warm tones with the right side being dark in shadow and the left side in sunlight having pale grey blue stones and some pink and red dotted among the earthen tones as it moves around to the dark brown and blue at the right side. Its pointed top reaches almost the top of the painting. Around its base are scattered headstones of a cemetery in various greys with some round green bushes. Just in front along the bottom edge is pale yellow-green grass, because the view is from across the road in a field which is higher than the graveyard. Behind the tower we see down onto the crescent-shaped strand stretching away to halfway up the painting where it bends right receiving the blues of the sea coming in from the right. Near the back of the beach is a broken line of pink, perhaps of seaweed at a tide line. Behind the beach at the left edge is a caravan park with dozens of mostly pale caravans in rows. Along the horizon, a third of the way down from the top edge and up past the beach are gentle hills of green patchwork fields, dotted with pale houses at the bottom closest to Ardmore and with a tree line along much of the distant top extending to the right over a headland which has violet and grey cliffs at the right edge. The sky is a very pale aqua blue. Signed top left, Liam Daly
September 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
elaineedwards.bsky.social
Things I have never watched: The Traitors. Bake Off. Gogglebox.
September 21, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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@imbibecoffee.bsky.social The FT’s weekend magazine is dedicated to coffee, Gary. Would you like me to send it on when I’m done with it?
Cover of the FT Weekend Magaxine dated 20 September 2025. It has an image of a man in a red jumper, wearing round black-rimmed glasses, with a coffee kettle in his right hand doing a very high pour over a coffee brewer on a table in front of him. He is looking directly at the camera and in the foreground to the left and the right of the shot are cameras mounted on tripods. The caption in yellow writing reads: How did we get so weird about coffee? A strapline below in red reads: King of the bean James Hoffmann has some ideas.
September 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
elaineedwards.bsky.social
I post a thing on a freecycling website and get a reply from someone saying how great this is but they’ll pass, sadly. Could you just *not* reply?
September 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM