Fair play to @kwikfit.bsky.social - I’ve been three times to three different N Ireland locations recently and always well treated, good explanations and no unnecessary charges.

Another beautiful Carnegie on the shores of Lake Michigan!

Elegant frontage at Waukegan Carnegie

We’ll have to open up a new hashtag for #MichiganCarnegies thanks to our keen follower Chris Bendsen (once of this parish) who spotted this wee gem… More info to follow!

Will these catch on?

Good colour match today? Beetroot, banana, soya in almond milk for post-gym smoothie. Tulips.

The fabulous Riddel’s Warehouse, Belfast by Hearth Historic Buildings Trust for 50th anniversary of @archhfund.org.uk Heritage Foundation. Intriguing pop-up exhibition (open late tonight) and great celebration of heritage for the future!

Always a smile from @quintinoliver.bsky.social when going for coffee at The Bobbin Cafe by @belfastcc.bsky.social since Andrew Carnegie himself started as a ‘Bobbin Boy’ in Dunfermline!

Our new best friend Rachel Smith exploring our Weavers’ Studio with a view to donating her family loom - what excitement and generosity!

Imaginative people make creative plans for our #BacktoLife challenges! With our trustees, staff, volunteers and owners at Lower Oldpark Community Association (photo credit, too!)

Spectacular art deco glass doorway!

We went to see @BelfastStories in the old @bankofireland building - beautiful art deco features, aspirations and plans for a fabulous attraction!

Each time I go through Gatwick…

The good ship COLA (Carnegie Oldpark Library Association) takes to the seas to navigate our #BacktoLife journey - plan ahead or you’ll end up where you’re headed!

The good ship COLA (Carnegie Oldpark Library Association) takes to the seas to navigate our #BacktoLife journey - plan ahead or you’ll end up where you’re headed!

Great fusion of people and ideas makes for strong strategic planning! #BacktoLife @carnegieoldpark.bsky.social

Drama @BELFASTCITY_AIR as @easyJet ‘Cancel’ flight to @Gatwick_Airport - some ppl rebook on other flights then we hear we’re leaving from @belfastairport instead! Wonder how they mistook our two beautiful airports? @ConsumerCouncil will be busy.

Love to see grown adults crawling about the floor, drawing with crayons and lifting the roof with creativity! #BacktoLife in so many productive ways

Isn’t strategic planning great! The exciting, interactive, engagement of trustees and volunteers at work on our #BacktoLife journey.

Isn’t strategic planning great! The exciting, interactive, engagement of trustees and volunteers at work on our #BacktoLife journey.

Great to see grown adults unwind and be creative!

Love to see grown adults crawling about the floor, drawing with crayons and lifting the roof with creativity! #BacktoLife in so many productive ways

Love to see grown adults crawling about the floor, drawing with crayons and lifting the roof with creativity! #BacktoLife in so many ways

Love to see grown adults crawling about the floor, drawing with crayons and lifting the roof with creativity! #BacktoLife in so many ways

How it all started - and is continuing #9 in our #BacktoLife series. Our Weavers’ Studio now buzzing with the clatter of shuttles, the chatter of visitors and mutual learning!

Our #BacktoLife bible - the #IrishCarnegies by Brendan Grimes of @ucddublin guides us on architecture, history, heritage and the people who brought Carnegie’s radical dreams to life!

Apparently not uncommon!

Here’s the real thing (from the book cover) - Skerries Carnegie near Dublin

How it all started #8 in our history series! Filming our first weaver spinning her yarn for her table loom (front). Now a thriving Weavers’ Studio

How it all started #7 Our first weaver’s loom takes its place in our ‘Juveniles’ Room’ in 2021.

How it all started #7 Our first weaver’s loom takes its place in our ‘Juveniles’ Room’ in 2021.

How it started #6 in our #BacktoLife series. Neighbours talk to our first weaver in her Weavers’ Studio, formerly the Juveniles’ Room when we were a library!

How it all started #5 Balletic brushing of the Weavers’ Studio, now buzzing and clattering with looms and shuttles! #BacktoLife

Glad to report it’s been corrected! No more grave-turning needed…

How it all started #4 in our #BacktoLife efforts. Brendan Grimes’s fabulous masterpiece on #IrishCarnegies in our then empty Weavers’ Studio - Carnegie himself was a Bobbin Boy!

How it started #3 in our #BacktoLife Weaver’s (now Weavers plural!) Studio. Expert advice from skilled crafters and textile specialists helped us hugely!

How many kitchen knives does one person need?

Feel for this sign writer - easy done!

How it all started! Our first weaver’s loom takes its place in our ‘Juveniles’ Room’ in 2021.

Oh dear! Edinburgh Airport seems to have forgotten spellcheck in its upgrade of this fantastic Carneg(g)ie quotation to welcome visitors?

The public art at Girdwood, our neighbouring community centre, learning hub and sports facility… @howtoenjoybelfast.bsky.social

The amazing @peacepalace.bsky.social endowed by Andrew Carnegie in an effort to prevent WWl in The Hague now occupied by International Court of Justice in paint and in real life!

Preparing for springtime growth in our planters #BacktoLife indeed

Nice to see the cops (Peelers over here!) turn a blind eye to double yellows and pavement parking too!

Cycling to the RVH Hospital Belfast - public art, perspectives and views (Stormont, too!)

Why not block both the pavement and the bike lane simultaneously?

Sunny silhouette

15 flights this year to Britain (from four Irish airports) and five other countries on seven airlines - one left early (six mins), two on time and the rest (12) were late, averaging 31 minutes each. @mmarymckenna.bsky.social @davidtorrancemsp.bsky.social

Here is our sandstone @belfastcc Coat of Arms and our gargoyle!