Easiest way to move a heavy portable air conditioner 5 miles across the city in the pouring rain and high wind? Don't discount the humble bicycle! Easier to keep upright, took less time than driving through the city core and easier to bring inside. #carryShitOlympics (is that still the hashtag?)

betamax stayed the night last night cos it was raining so hard! sleepy man ❤️

happy pride month! i am very blessed this year to be in a gay (as in happy) gay (as in fruity) relationship with my gay (as in limp wristed) best friend of many years! wife guy mode is in FULL SWING @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social

happy pride month! i am very blessed this year to be in a gay (as in happy) gay (as in fruity) relationship with my gay (as in limp wristed) best friend of many years! wife guy mode is in FULL SWING @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social

went to a wonderful Ethiopian restaurant last week in Edinburgh. food was delicious but their "leave us a review!" cards had the maddest QR code I've ever seen. a real beast

i leave Belfast for ten days and there's Knights Templar flags flying from the streetlights on my cycle back from the airport. ahhh, love this place. never disappoints!

why does Aer Lingus prohibit me from syncing my iPod with iTunes during takeoff and landing

the best thing about this game is that it has the nissan s-cargo, including @ellenfromnowon.co.uk 's snan.gay livery bsky.app/profile/jeez...

happy pride month to everyone EXCEPT me because today I had to bid goodbye to my lovely girlfriend and the Irish sea separates us once more

Oooouuuggghhh fixing girlfriend's washer dryer machine then getting taken dancing later at a ceilidh. I LOVE GAYNESS

LIDL is opening a pub (a WORLD FIRST) to get around stupid northern Irish licencing laws in my home city. Here's their render of what it's gonna look like. Gonna PROUDLY MARCH there for a MIDDLING GERMAN BEVERAGE on opening day

Restalrig railway path is one of my favourite walks in Edinburgh. even better when with @ellenfromnowon.co.uk 🍃 🌳 ☀️

wildlife spots today in Edinburgh: - blackbird rifling through tree litter - beautiful pheasant man - confused housecat in alcove

sit down in any grass this week in Edinburgh and you are immediately set upon by myriad new friends and acquaintances

He wants to eat a 15mm full bore isolation valve for potable water </3 (cat is Baloo, of @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social)

Bottom of the loaf of Nutty Krust bread wasn't cut properly so I took out my bread knife, started cutting it and just as I was getting established the loudest car backfire I've ever heard went off right outside my open window. Got a cool new cut just below my index finger on my left hand now 👍

a sunny day in ireland is a gift and how better to enjoy it than spend it on a gay little outing with @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social

Had a lovely family dinner last night and my puppet artist brother made me a very cool little posable needle felt figure!!!

Ellen: you’re really serving Zohran Mamdani’s wife here

I am 33 years old today #unc

had the final destination setup going with some rack shelving on the cycle home today 🔥

Don't knock it till you try it. 40mm waste pipes come in 3m lengths and are literally perfect for the bike trailer lol

Found a rare 2008 vintage fragrance today while excavating my brother's decking. The previous owners had packed the soil with rubbish and bin bags for some reason but this was the cream of the crop 🔥 I hope TC got some new deoder

if you have a spider in your house that you need dealt with? m'lady...

so there was a car bomb half a mile or so from where i grew up this week. that news has now crossed the atlantic ocean, to outstanding results

Anyone else get pounding headaches when even vaguely cold wind hits their exposed ears? I've had it since childhood but am curious if there's any fix other than "wear a hat or headphones until June when outside" cos it's very annoying!!!

I last replaced my ebike's rear brake pads 8,900 miles ago, and today's the day I do it again. Look at how worn they were! Old on left, obviously. £3/pad is a pretty good service cost for not far off quintuple digit mileage. I was sceptical of hydraulic rim brakes. Nah, they're awesome.

Chilling on Sirroco Walk in the sun and close to achieving inner peace. God the warm sun on your face really does just fix so much.

So with the ban on anyone born from 2009 onwards ever being allowed to buy cigs, are we gonna see CHECK 45 signs in supermarkets years in the future? Like if you look under 45 you get IDed? Can't wait lmao

this is a children's mediaeval point and click adventure game mate. put that bum away

7 years today since our great friend Lyra McKee was taken from us. I wonder what she'd think about the world today. I hope she'd be proud of those whose lives she touched. I'll be up to see you this afternoon, honey. Love you as ever.

7 years today since our great friend Lyra McKee was taken from us. I wonder what she'd think about the world today. I hope she'd be proud of those whose lives she touched. I'll be up to see you this afternoon, honey. Love you as ever.

If you know a Rosanna who's lost a Capital One credit card in the Ravenhill area of Belfast today, let her know it's with the peelers at Musgrave in city centre. Tried to leave it in at Castlereagh station so it would be nearby but they wouldn't touch it!

If they have room in unicode for 🫪 this shit 🫪 they have room to bring back the love of my life who I've mourned for over a decade #HairyHeart2026

been a fan of Owl City and Adam Young's other music projects for decades but this has gotta be his worst lyric of all time lmao The song is class but dear god man

love is in the snail van

ok it's time to be cringe. zero of our friends have been surprised at the news but it's indescribably wonderful when, during the best holiday you can remember, walking around the Atlantic coast of Ireland, you and your best friend of many years become girlfriends 🔥 @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social

I was fully expecting to have a bit of craic holding a couple of lambs. We got there at 9am, it was pissing rain and we were the only people there the whole time. Ended up hand bottle feeding over a dozen lambs each and were completely unsupervised almost the whole time lol - genuinely lovely!

snail van has a sniffle. this is what the engine sounds like under no load (in neutral, he's fine idling in drive, not running lean, just with reduced power). pretty awful noise! telltale is the brake returning so quickly after the booster loses power. easy fix! #WeirdCarBS

travel with the wonderful @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social. can't bate it with a big schtick

Have well over 1,200 photos from the past week so no apologies if I'm posting them for a good bit. Some bangers in there

I am such an absolutely huge fan of her actually. (with @ellenfromnowon.co.uk at the Conor Pass waterfall)

accidentally took a photo of @ellenfromnowon.co.uk as the Wanderer above the Sea of Fog in Dingle

holidays are so much better when you bring an outdoorsy lesbian and a stupid car with you (@eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social / 1989 Nissan S-Cargo G20)

more of Dingle: truly such a magical place. the weather was, to me, absolutely perfect. rain, cold, wind, it really added to the whole vibe of the place. I’ve really just never seen anything quite like it. First picture is a tea break taken while tailgating at the beach

I was fully expecting to have a bit of craic holding a couple of lambs. We got there at 9am, it was pissing rain and we were the only people there the whole time. Ended up hand bottle feeding over a dozen lambs each and were completely unsupervised almost the whole time lol - genuinely lovely!

Taking Conor Pass out of Dingle, County Kerry was a bit of a gamble in the snail van (extremely steep hills, twisty corners and long descents that cook brakes badly) but he did great. Here's me and then the snail at the waterfall on the north side of the Pass.

Shout out to Sallagh, resident dog at the Greenway Lodge B&B in Achill Sound, who was an endless delight during our stay. Here he is mid-gallop on his way for belly rubs.

snail enrichment activity: bring him to the atlantic coast along a gravel track so he can witness the wrath of neptune 📍 Ferriter's Cove, Dingle Peninsula 🇮🇪 #WeirdCarBS

1,800 kilometres added to the snail van's odometer forever, and worth every one. Best trip I've been on in years, really gives you a boost. 🗺️ Belfast, County Antrim > Kinsale, Co Cork > Dingle, Co Kerry > Achill Island, Co Mayo > Dunfanaghy, Co Donegal > Belfast with @eightsyllabledelay.bsky.social