With herbicide via defenestration and heat wave horticulture I wrote today while covered in sun screen, escaping the heat for a few minutes. The blog deals with seaweed extracts, plant foods, fertilisers and burgers. --- www.nodyesyes.com?p=344 --- #GardenSky #Garden #HeatWave #SpeirGorm #LGBTQ

Doing meds, right now. It's forcing me to stop and slow. I need to research plant foods a little more. I've looked at the chemical composition of the two current Aldi foods. I've emailed Ocean Leaves. Vitax I don't know. Shrubs need help as much as a steaming person this weather. #GardenSky #DIY

Maybe they have realised that Sinn Fein has never been progressive. It's deeply conservative and appeals to the lowest instincts (e.g. racism, Little Irelandism, glorification of sectarian murder)... www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Headache this morning. A lil' sleep. Kept drinking water yesterday. No alcohol, a few zero beers. Lots of coffee, probably need more flasks of H2O in the fridge. One next to me now. I remembered to water my plants. Work ons with the self-care, even when challenging. Scorchio. #SpeirGorm #GardenSky

I relaxed with a character for the Traveller #TTRPG An in-atmosphere pilot (flyer) his family, on a small agricultural world, saw his intellect and funnelled their savings into his education, hoping a military naval career would help him to a better life. These are pre-gens for a 🌈🎲community group.

Nice wondering... I have to pick up Nature's Acre when I have the time, for my 10m2. There's such a focus on mid-life career/family goals that RTE is trying to balance between retirees, kids and working people. There's definitely a need for slower life and enjoyment in your 30s and 40s. #SpeirGorm

Laughing listening to Mooney Goes Wild. This is ridiculous and informative. The music cues are killing me. I'd love if there was also a plants/garden/horticulture focused show. Some of the daytime shows do call ins but I'm usually busy. A dedicated show, please @rteradio1.bsky.social #SpéirGhorm

I'm building a little mini first aid kit I can keep to hand when I'm doing any DIY. It can't be so unwieldy that I don't actually carry it. And it's genuinely first aid, not a full on medical emergency kit. Cuts, burns and eyes is what I'm thinking. #SpeirGorm

I rolled up a Traveller character last night. Mind is aflame as I get work done. I keep getting distracted. Forced to stop and pause for a moment and think about it. I'm trying to shut that part of my brain down. Radio on to drown out hobby thoughts. Pacing. Cleaning. Wall-prep. #TTRPG

Níl aon scamaill sa spéir. #SpéirGhorm

I compare this to people being embarrassed buying toilet paper. Ensuring it's buried at the bottom of the shopping bag carrying it home. Just like everyone uses the bathroom and have all their lives, everyone also needs to wash their clothes. Let people live the normal parts of their life publicly.

Somewhere there is a gay couple called Adam and Steve, and that thought makes me happy.

I'm building a little mini first aid kit I can keep to hand when I'm doing any DIY. It can't be so unwieldy that I don't actually carry it. And it's genuinely first aid, not a full on medical emergency kit. Cuts, burns and eyes is what I'm thinking. #SpeirGorm

I went to the Mallow Garden Show this weekend. Great fun, but a little expensive. Wait... Someone's saying something to me. Woodie's. I went to Woodie's. #SpeirGorm

I ate an entire bag of chocolate peanuts. Tummy hort.

Tired eyes this morning so my quick photo edits aren't up to my usual standards. The first really warm day is going to be really tough on me, but I have faith in my plants! They've been cared for and nurtured in preparation for The Big Day! #Garden #Gardening #DIY #GardenSky #UrbanYard #SpéirGhorm

Being a small shitposter is being thrilled at 2 likes and 1 repost.

I think I qualify for associate membership of a significant Irish union. Their membership is handled through London. I'm still waiting on an email back about my application six months later. This a union that's very active here as well as in the background of a lot of news. #SpéirGhorm #SpeirGorm

My press pass gained me access to the crime scene. The untimely demise of a beloved pet. Unruly and un-tameable, she left us the same way as she lived her life, spreading out and causing a holy ruckus. #Garden #Gardening #DIY #RIP

I have some risqué - cough-cough - fiction written. Set in a pub where magic, and more, happens - raggedy men and boozy, leather women. I'll edit it to proper standards and aim for an autumn release. Just as people are ready for hearths and shag rugs on backs. 😇 #Novel #Romance #Fiction #SpéirGhorm

Does anyone out there have a 10 box or a 12.5g of Amber Leaf? I'm trying to put together some decent first aid kits. #SpéirGhorm

if the government had any vision whatsoever, they would go in hard on making this the best country in the world to be a creative worker. culturally, we're already punching above our weight with one hand tied behind our back, imagine if we really unshackled our potential

Doctors have given me the all clear to resume my unhealthy boozing habits, as long as I change them to healthy ones, and keep within the actual weekly guidelines. (I think they have to say this.) If you want to buy me a pint you can buy my book. I've plastered links everywhere, already. #SpéirGhorm

After a hard day this is absolutely disgusting! And much needed!

"Aldi, which took fifth place, was the only supermarket to rank in the top 10." The only one without some sort of app/"loyalty " programme?

Really difficult segment, I only half caught the start of, about love existing despite the hellhole we exist in. It's tough to maintain that insight. And the book seems to be about war-torn areas, but there are people in the so called first world missing love. 🌈💚 #SpéirGhorm @rteradio1.bsky.social

DMC slips over bottle of vino on @rteradio1.bsky.social In a suburban Cork bar last year. Six teens on mid-term from th LC. Fortune in drinks, with 2/3 drinking wine. I mention a bottle of wine between them. The bar manager looked thrilled. Lovely kids, much deserved break from the exam nightmare.

What I'm currently wrestling with. God bless little 10m2 urban yards. What you lack in Weber BBQ space you make up with being able to walk pretty much everywhere. I think I'm best friends with all the staff in Woodie's now.

The heavy rain seems to have helped a little. Maybe I made the drainage too good?

Allison was already brought up to speed on minor sexual favours as thanks.

Many were quick to disagree 🍕

Long skeet-thread from Jeff Greene, here, but to me the idea there's explicity "Information Sources" betrays his argument that it's the same as ever. The ground is constantly shifting. Even the idea of education where you establish your own expertise is being blasted away by post-truth ideas.

It's not the point of RHS shows but I'd love to see someone work and document a garden for a single person, or 3 person family. Busy, time-stretched people living in apartments with balconies or small urban homes with maybe 10m2 of a yard that also needs to house the bins. #SpéirGhorm #Garden #DIY

I have one in my vaults about how a passing based football tactic is "woke."

Some pictures of my own starting efforts, with special thanks to the friendly people whose wines you like. There's not enough time to get it all done, which makes it fun. And, of course, not pictured, a nicely chilled and refreshing St. Etienne or two alongside the grub at the end of the day.

It's not the point of RHS shows but I'd love to see someone work and document a garden for a single person, or 3 person family. Busy, time-stretched people living in apartments with balconies or small urban homes with maybe 10m2 of a yard that also needs to house the bins. #SpéirGhorm #Garden #DIY

So many people hate football, but, when I'm there at a match, nothing else matters and in this world of shit any time that happens is precious.

This is what happens when your city is the city billionaires have to be. It's taken a while for some to realise but for all the "Billionaires will leave if we tax them!" New York knows they'd never leave New York. It has an extremely rare position with that, and getting them to pay is a good step.

It's so transparent how the main parties are constantly sending these shots at RTÉ. God forbid someone ask them questions, and actually make them answer! Then you have people claiming RTÉ is government media, people who only ever listen to one minute clips. Also, Derek Mooney is a legend. #Nature

Area man who criticised media coverage of government wants more government oversight of media

A shrub I'm growing. #Gardening The colour is nice but probably not good.

The books from the gay poet I bought over the weekend. And the link to my book, on sale at the moment, below. 28% off because a big bollocks to the brits and what they've done and are doing to the #LGBTQ #LGBT community. Art will see us through! #SpeirGorm

I've been sitting at a computer researching stuff all morning (soft networks, knowledge bases, etc.) I am cold and hungry and I know full well this is my body lying to me because I'm miserable from sitting at a computer researching stuff all morning via soft networks and knowledge bases. 🙄

The books from the gay poet I bought over the weekend. And the link to my book, on sale at the moment, below. 28% off because a big bollocks to the brits and what they've done and are doing to the #LGBTQ #LGBT community. Art will see us through! #SpeirGorm

I am sending my love and support to the LGBTQ+ community. I was proud to attend the flag raised in City Hall last week. It was great meeting with John Moran, Limerick Mayor, and Fergal Dennehy, Lord Mayor of Cork. Let us continue to create space for visibility and belonging.

GoCar offers that service in urban areas. You book the "shared car" on an app, walk up, unlock it from your phone, takes the keys from the glovebox, and start dividing. Both cars and vans. Ironically, Eamon Ryan was ridiculed for suggesting it for smaller rural centres like villages.

Eggs are great. Pure fuel. If you're working hard or if you're unwell eggs will see you right. There's a reason every hospital in the country will fire out eggs and toast to anyone.

I bought this in one of the German Discounters™️I think the plant is healthy. I've been researching why some leaves developed a reddish hue to them. I've not been able to find anything. #SpéirGhorm #Garden If I can't get an answer I'll write to @irishexaminer.bsky.social or @rteradio1.bsky.social

This stuff has to be pointed out for the extremism it is — Wanting to live in places, rural and urban, where you are safe and free to go about daily life without depending on the expense of a car — or being terrorised by users of them — isn't wanting to "live like hobbits", it's freedom.