In the nooks & crannies with all the crooks & nannies, the wild things & the bingo wings, the boilers bellies & black tee shirts, the tattoos & cosplay cowboys, the young ones on the razz, Ballyshannon & Roryfest & all that jazz Nik Bennett

Woke up in Ireland. Went to bed in Canada. Jet travel will always blow my mind.

Happy to meet, sorry to part Malahide

River Liffey from the Beckett Bridge

Painted ladies Malahide Dublin

Flowers that are wild Sligo Mac Diarmada Station

The original course of the Erne Bridge End Ballyshannon, County Donegal

The light pours out of me Rossnowlagh County Donegal

Shlow pints McIntyres Ballyshannon, County Donegal

Two solitudes

Snookered

Ben Bulben makes an appearance

He’s only gone & done it! 21 for 8 UTFR

The story goes that this is approximately 1917, maybe 18 & my great grandma Esther is angry with my great grandad Jim. Why has been lost to time. What remains is the photo post card that she has cut herself out of with surgical precision. Why is this so poignant a photo in my family?

The fleet is in Port Dover Commercial Harbour

Don’t know if I’m ready to write about the other side of this postcard just yet. Not sure if my spin cycle brain & tumble dryer heart are up to this. Lots of stuff needing to be written down before me & r’kid become the full time memory for r’mam.

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Lose, loose - either way, it works

Tornado warning

Bin Bezos

Salvo’s

In between days

Diver down

Chinatown represent

Kin’nell! 17 then 69 now (today)

Happy birthday, Trev! Love, Pops xx

Aftermath

Paris Plains

Stubble fields Paris Plains

Chinatown, my Chinatown

Willie Mays was born on this day in 1931. He was pretty good at the baseball.

Your money’s no good here, Mr. Torrance

Medical Arts Hamilton, ON

Nothing gold can stay Toronto, ON

Good company, good grub, Guinness & football on Heaven

Art Deco outshines Toronto, ON

Deep in an industrial wasteland is a door

I think an afternoon at The St.George Arms

House of Westing

Main & Gage

Westinghouse once upon a time

Barnstorming

GO

Misty moisty Skyway

Roads girdle the globe XTC

Imperial lighthouse

Stacked

When a cosplayer gets their picture taken with the person who plays the character in the movie

Don’t fence me in Paris Junction Paris, ON

Opalescent