i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs

Put my back out at a massage class 🥴

One of my favourite poems. Only a few lines but so wonderfully evocative.

My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜

For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines

Grok creates abusive and exploitative images but Irish people not using ChatGPT enough is the problem apparently.

Finally catching up on Leonard and Hungry Paul. It’s the loveliest thing and so beautifully shot. An antidote to all that’s horrible in the world. Congrats to all involved @ronanhession.bsky.social

'Snow Day London' by contemporary Welsh painter Sarah Evans #Womensart

Really enjoyed Roise and Frank. Very sweet little film about grief, acceptance and letting go. Although the endless blue skies over Ring were somewhat less believable than the dog being a reincarnation of the deceased Frank #SpeirGorm

"Never get tired of doing little things for others. Sometimes those little things occupy the biggest part of their hearts." ~ St. Thérèse of Lisieux 🎨 Peder Mørk Mønsted (1916)

Getting mixed messages here.

I buy extra panettone just so I can use them for French toast or bread and butter puddings.

Not one I heard directly but seen on Twitter (before it went down the toilet) - woman to a small crying child “fat lot of use you’d have been in the Easter Rising crying over a balloon”.

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

An early Christmas present from the tv gods - 2 new seasons of the brilliant Utopia have landed in my digibox recordings.

Jolabokaflod 📚🎄❤️

Oldham market in the snow on Christmas Eve, painted 1971 by Helen Bradley (1900-79). She began to paint her distinctive scenes of an Edwardian girlhood at the age of 65.

Cyril Cox (Canadian Artist, born 1958) "Late Afternoon Light", 2022. Acrylic on Canvas, 48 × 36 inches. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Because I’m a contrary idiot I resisted reading this book for the last 2 years. But it’s our book club read for January so I’m reading it and now wondering why the hell I took so long to get round to it. Only a few chapters in but absolutely loving it @liznugent.bsky.social

I have ordered the turkey. And bought the ingredients for the trifle. Fingers crossed I get out of work on time tomorrow.

This has done nothing to help my phobia of canals.

A solstice sunrise over Lake Winnipeg.

This song forever changed for me now.

This always stops me in my tracks. Haunting and poignant. youtu.be/T0K2MAOSxe8

This is the loveliest podcast and I can 100% recommend.

@lisagrimm.com any insights on this? www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Getting my nails done last week and the beautician was telling me how she’d never heard of George Michael till about 3 weeks ago.

Last Calendar! If YOU would like it, and you live in IRELAND (important!), share this post & comment on why you follow us. And I’ll pick a lucky winner at the end of the day! Be well, friends. Last market on Sunday!

Cheeses saves.

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Love this from @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social - has a special poignancy as Teen1 has just turned 18 and is starting to spread his wings. open.qobuz.com/track/348574...

Poignant thread. Look out for your menfolk.

Yesss!! #grandstretch

'Switzerland in Winter.' John Lavery visited the fashionable resort of Wengen in Switzerland in 1912-13 producing mountain landscapes which favourably compare with John Singer Sargent's alpine scenes of the period.

They ban fonts. Font never caused a loss of life.

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Mouse number 3. 🤷‍♀️

Tomorrow the stretch starts again!

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This takes an unexpected swerve.

Read. And weep. I hope the author of this very poignant letter is doing ok.

Grim.

Let’s see if I can break the habit of a lifetime and actually watch this to the end.

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Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard Mode: No Star Wars, Marvel etc #SpeirGorm

Is it just me or does this Christmas gonk look like Billy Connolly? Every time I see it I think of his “jojoba” sketch

Joy Division vs Charlie Brown dance party also slaps...

This never fails to make me laugh out loud.

It’s all so gloriously bonkers #latelatetoyshow #speirgorm

That was such a lovely example of how to just give overstimulated neurodivergent kids a second when they're overwhelmed instead of getting impatient like people usually do #LateLateToyShow