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peatbogsoldier.bsky.social
Séan
@peatbogsoldier.bsky.social
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Somewhere in Ireland, probably listening to music, walking the dog or reading something. Or despairing, or daydreaming. On the route of the 19 bus.
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Carnivalesque by Neil Jordan (yes, he of movie writer/director renown) is a wonderfully poetic & magical rollercoaster ride (no apologies for the pun) of carnies, changelings, suburbia and ancient knowledge. A real treat. 📚
Cover of Neil Jordan's novel Carnivalesque. It shows a silhouette of gold stars of a boy on a blue background. Back cover blurb; To Andy and his parents, it looks like any other carnival: creaking ghost train, rusty rollercoaster and circus performers. But of course it isn't. Drawn to the hall of mirrors, Andy enters and is hypnotised by the many selves staring back at him. Sometime later, one of those selves walks out and rejoins his parents - leaving Andy trapped inside the glass, snatched from the tensions of his suburban home and transported to a world where gravity is meaningless and time performs acrobatic tricks. And now an identical stranger inhabits Andy's life, unsettling his mother with a curious blankness, as mysterious events start unfolding in their coastal Irish town... 'One of Ireland's most talented artists' John Banville 'His cinematic sensibility yields prose of the most bewitching kind Sunday Times 'Compelling' Richard Ford 'You can never know where you are going with Neil Jordan... Extraordinary' John Burnside, Guardian
November 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Thank you @weare1of100.bsky.social ! #NoPasaran
A t-shirt with a bluebell logo and the text "¡No Pasaran!"
November 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
peatbogsoldier.bsky.social
This is how I'm going to look every time someone dislikes one of my posts
Frank N Furter staring contemptuously.
November 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
peatbogsoldier.bsky.social
Drinking in Music from Big Pink this grey Sunday afternoon.
Artwork by Bob Dylan for the Band's album Music from Big Pink. It depicts 6 musicians playing guitars, piano, drums and double bass.
October 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
peatbogsoldier.bsky.social
You know, you weren't far wrong.
Manderley Castle where Enya lives. Turrets, castellated, the works. Like if you had drawn the archetypal castle.
October 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Really enjoyed @richycraven.bsky.social's. Ghosts, drinking & snogging an 86 year old in the streets of Dublin. What's not to love. 📚
The cover of Richy Craven's book Spirit Level. On the cover is a glass of whiskey. A blue (toy) car is nose down sinking into the whiskey as if it has crashed into the glass.
October 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Wiki has an artist's impression of them by Kikutake Wakasa.
An artist's depiction of the Imperial Regalia of Japan. They are a round mirror (shield like), a sword and a jewell (which looks like a shaped piece of jade)
October 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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This is just *chef's kiss"
Lyris from Mar-a-Lago by the sea by The Divine Comedy. "All the sycophants and narcs. All the cannibals and sharks. A secluded paradise Of spies and cypress trees. Mar-a-Lago by the sea. Cheating losers on the greens. Swapping wives for beauty queens. Making turgid wedding speeches. Entertaining fascist leeches"
October 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Molly (aka Snout aka Shitepaws) passed her MOT vet checkup. But, she has to lose ½kilo so no bedtime snacks allowed. Hence the forlorn look.
A black and white border collie dog with her face and nose very close to the camera. Her eyes are wide with a look like she's the worst treated dog in the world.
September 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Love this, even if it is apocryphal. From Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens. 📚
On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the surface of the moon. In the months leading up to their expedition, the Apollo 11 astronauts trained in a remote moon-like desert in the western United States. The area is home to several Native American communities, and there is a story or legend - describing an encounter between the astronauts and one of the locals. - One day as they were training, the astronauts came across an old Native American. The man asked them what they were doing there. They replied that they were part of a research expedition that would shortly travel to explore the moon. When the old man heard that, he fell silent for a few moments, and then asked the astronauts if they could do him a favour. 'What do you want?' they asked. 'Well,' said the old man, 'the people of my tribe believe that holy spirits live on the moon. I was wondering if you could pass an important message to them from my people.' 'What's the message?' asked the astronauts. The man uttered something in his tribal language, and then asked the astronauts to repeat it again and again until they had memorised it correctly. 'What does it mean?' asked the astronauts. 'Oh, I cannot tell you. It's a secret that only our tribe and the moon spirits are allowed to know.' When they returned to their base, the astronauts searched and searched until they found someone who could speak the tribal language, and asked him to translate the secret message. When they repeated what they had memorised, the translator started to laugh uproariously. When he calmed down, the astronauts asked him what it meant. The man explained that the sentence they had memorised so carefully meant 'Don't believe a single word these people are telling you. They have come to steal your lands.'
August 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
peatbogsoldier.bsky.social
The most interesting thing about King Charles the First
Is that he was 5 foot 6 inches tall at the start of his reign
But only 4 foot 8 inches tall at the end of it.

Currently listening to. Educational, you know.
Monty Python Sings CD box. The picture is a large cartoon mouth with red lips and a green tongue.
August 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
peatbogsoldier.bsky.social
*1980s gameshow voice* Let's have a look at what you could have won.
Autotrader advert for an Aston Martin Vantage selling for £89,000.
August 13, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Really spoil them.
A Vienetta ice cream dessert. The peak of posh in 1980.
July 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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About to launch into this 1100+ page behemoth. It took Moore 10 years to write it apparently, so I'm honouring that by having had it nearly 10 years in my TBR pile. See you on the other side of the Boroughs.📚
The cover of Alan Moore's hardback book Jerusalem.
July 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Funding @nivenj1.bsky.social's decadent lifestyle. Had to give up vaping to afford this.
Cover of John Niven's new novel The Fathers. It has an orange background with an illustration of two white paths crossing over each other. 2 men walk the paths and will meet where the paths intersect.
July 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Every time I read @adamroberts.bsky.social I learn something new, and realise there's a whole philosophical world out there I know little about. Nobody else writes quite like this. TIL Gilles Deleuze on the centenary of his birth. Great stuff.
The cover of Adam Roberts' sci-fi novel Lake of Darkness. "Sci-fi's most outrageous experimentalist -The Times"
July 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Spice it up with this, rattling down Val Thorens would be great craic.
A playing card attached to the front fork of a bicycle by a clothes peg, so that when it hits against the moving spokes it makes a thhhrrrrrrrp sound, like a motorbike engine but not really like a motorbike engine obviously.
July 5, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Quote a record that you found in your parents collection when you were young
Cover of Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass album Whipped Cream & Other Delights. It shows a young woman wearing what looks like a voluminous white satin dress which is either made of or covered in whipped cream. She is provocatively licking cream off her forefinger in a sultry Flake advert kind of way.
June 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Had to finish rereading this beauty about the Big Lad and His Father. Be nice.
Cover of John Niven book The Second Coming. Red background with a silhouette Jesus in a crucifixion pose holding a white guitar (Gibson SG?) above his head.
June 20, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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I sort of respected them..fascinated I think
A man wearing a dark suit jacket and white t-shirt is holding a small white Casiotone (?) keyboard. His mouth is slightly open, mid sentence, and his eyes look upwards. Neue Deutsche Welle personified.
June 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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The modesty runs deep through our family.
A father's day card that reads; DAD WHATEVER LIFE THROWS AT YOU, AT LEAST YOU DON'T HAVE UGLY CHILDREN
June 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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What's your sign?
A brown road sign has fallen off its metal post and now sits on a stone wall. It points to Horn Head (Corrán Binne in Irish)
June 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Without downloading any new pictures, where are you at mentally?
4 children sit on a bench. The youngest boy has blindingly ginger hair and is wearing a blue and white dungaree ensemble that colour matches the dress of the girl beside him. The other 2 boys are wearing fantastic tartan trousers. It was the 70s, as if that was any excuse.
June 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Duke Special performing Brixton Leaves with the mesmerising Chip "Temperance Society" Bailey on percussion at the Spirit Store, Dundalk, last night. Unforgettable night, a brilliant stage show & a true gent
June 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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I don't think Georgina Fuller's heart is really in it. Sounds like she's come to realise she sold her soul.
Georgina Fuller's Bluesky bio "Disillusioned journalist for national newspapers, failed author, mum and woman of a certain age."
May 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM