Spirit in the Sky. Beach at Hilbre Island.

#NowPlaying ‘The Meaning of the Blues’: youtu.be/IYB8iupXkt4?...

First and last photo on my phone of Magwitch (?/8/12 - 21/9/25). Found wet and abandoned in the first week of his life.

#NowPlaying #TMCC™ ‘Polka Dots and Moonbeams’: youtu.be/E--QOUIVFOo?...

#NowPlaying #TMCC™ ‘Autumn in New York’: youtu.be/yGUqYqTPYzs?...

#NowPlaying #TMCC™ ‘My Love Waits (O Meu Amor Espera)’: youtu.be/a7VhXUXEtKk?...

I gave out about the Irish still finding it charming to be late all the fucking time (I’m allowed). www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...

Idle Moments #Hank

Sunday #Hildy

One of you wrote something stupid.

#NowPlaying #TMCC™ ‘Autumn Nocturne’: youtu.be/CGpMhyP4JrI?...

Today is Stevie Smith’s birthday. She was a poet & novelist. “Miss Snooks was really awfully nice And never wrote a poem That was not really awfully nice And fitted to a woman, She therefore made no enemies And gave no sad surprises But went on being awfully nice And took a lot of prizes.”

#NowPlaying ‘These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)’: youtu.be/-ZL2la9vPds?...

My friend* @kevinddaly.bsky.social alerted me to this upcoming release about a week ago. My mind was elsewhere at the time. My favourite film. (*I don’t toss that word around.)

#NowPlaying ‘Friday’s Child’: youtu.be/owNNAh_8G9o?...

Today is Arthur Rackham’s birthday. He was a book illustrator. Some of his illustrations for a 1915 edition of ‘A Christmas Carol’:

Today is William Dyce’s birthday. He was a painter. ‘Portrait of a Lady’ (1832), Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums

I seem to have written a buke

#NowPlaying ‘Paddy Fahy’s Reel’: youtu.be/-nNRvQlu0ew?...

Today is Jack Cardiff’s birthday. He was a cinematographer*, photographer, & director. (*my favourite) 📸 1956

#NowPlaying #TMCC™ ‘My One and Only Love’: youtu.be/fue4mYwJjeU?...

We have a standard double sized bed and Bixby Snyder can take up all of it. He’s not even that big for a Maine Coon cat at a mere 9.5kg, but well over a metre long when he stretches out. Also this is one of his most refined and elegant poses. Please admire his surprisingly ginger tummy

Today is William Carlos Williams’s birthday. He was a poet, novelist, essayist, & playwright. And a doctor. ‘Election Day’: “Warm sun, quiet air an old man sits in the doorway of a broken house— boards for windows plaster falling from between the stones and strokes the head of a spotted dog”

Yin and Yang

Has anyone ever worn a movie costume better than Robert Redford in his navy pea coat in Three Days of the Condor?

Sending the enclosed files with my late copy.

Today is T. E. Hulme’s birthday. He was a critic & poet. From ‘The Embankment’: “Oh, God, make small The old star-eaten blanket of the sky, That I may fold it round me and in comfort lie.”

I’ve pulled this up repeatedly ever since Frank posted it (Daniel can take a picture).

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Whenever I play the piano, the cats like to come and listen. Today Hildy was singing along with tiny little miaows

Today is Agatha Christie’s birthday. 📸 March 1968

“Real happiness lies in the little things, in a bit of gardening work, in the rattle of the teacups in the next room, in the last chapter of a book.”

Today is Cannonball Adderley’s birthday. He was a jazz alto saxophonist.

They aren’t using words because those words have meaning or reflect beliefs. They don’t care about meaning or beliefs. They’re using words because those words have effects. And when those words no longer have that effect, or they want a different effect, they’ll just move on to some new words.

A showery September Sunday here in Clonmel, Tipperary, with a real autumnal feel. The perfect sort of day for a good walk to Carey's Castle. Always wonderful to get into the woods here, especially as the season turns. 🍂 #Ireland #SpéirGhorm

A Blackburnian Warbler in the Central Park Ramble. 💛

This strikes me as being as solid a summation of how to exist here as I have read. (Personal caveat: I can only *repost* dog pics.)

Today is Édouard Boubat’s birthday. He was a photographer & photojournalist. ‘Cats on a Roof, Paris’ (1947)

Today is Louis MacNeice’s birthday. He was a poet & playwright. From ‘Perdita’: “Somewhere or other a green Flag is waving under an iron vault And a brass bell is the herald of green country And the wind is in the wires and the broom is gold.”

Rufus wishes to bless your timeline.

“Is it cocktail hour yet, Tomás?”

“Good news travelled fast when Paddy was carrying it. The Antrim-born pigeon made the 230-mile trip from Normandy to Dorset in 4 hours and 50 minutes, quickest of the hundreds of birds used.” @frankie49.bsky.social's Wednesday diary entry:

(from Stanley Kunitz’s ‘The Layers’) “I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray.”

Today is Mary Oliver’s birthday. She was a poet.

#NowPlaying ‘I Don’t Want to Walk Without You’: youtu.be/yFAak7f4xGQ?...