@roisinm
Made in Ireland a long time ago. Cats, books, tea, spotty bananas. Daily recorder of #3goodthings, celebrating the tiny joys. Pub by Hachette Ireland and Sphere Books UK. 23rd novel, Second Chances, out now. Thinking about next. Be kind, it's easy.
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Pink chai latte with a fancy swirl.
Daffs in a vase.
Mural in Ennis.
##3goodthings
1. Pink chai latte. Beetroot and raspberry in the mix, I was told. Bit insipid, to be honest - but so pretty.
2. Daffs blew down in last night's gale, so now they're brightening up the kitchen. Tis an ill wind.
3. Ennis street art.
Give it a go.
It kind of works. I still had to get out the scrubber but it didn't take long to shift the accumulated spills.
Oven racks on the lawn being cleaned by mother nature.
Blurry buds on a magnolia shrub/tree.
A half-ripped sweater sleeve.
#3goodthings
1. Cleaning the oven racks. Exhausting. 😂😂
2. First buds on the magnolia dangerously close to blooming.
3. A lazy afternoon ripping out a geansai to create another. Fingers crossed - when it comes to knitting, my optimism is streets ahead of my competency. 🙈🙈🧶🧶🧶🧶
Ha ha - hell, yes!
It's rather good!
Will mention you to St Martha, today's my day to light the candle and have a chat with her x
No worries, say hi to the old Twitterati.
Was out on Feb 5 - keep up! Currently plotting the next.
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Glad to hear it. Onwards. X
Not too bad, Alan. How're you doing?
Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music
Several dozen folks did
Some even dubbed music over the original clip.
I haven't been able to get this out of my head.
So I give you
A Bluesky exclusive:
Reservoir Ducks
🐣 🪶
Porridge in a yellow bowl with a topping of pumpkin seeds.
Purple flowers with yellow middles.
Two loaves of soda bread.
#3goodthings
1. Porridge with everything in it.
2. Pretty purple flowers. Every year they feel their way up through the gravel.
3. Soda bread, to use up aged milk.
Someone requested this hoodie, so... I guess it's in the store now.
Via: thebadappleid.etsy.com/listing/4414...
Thanks Paula!
D'ó.
#Booksky
out, I went up to the group and came clean. Two of them had spotted me and thought I was who I was, but weren't sure. They were all lovely. I signed their books and posed for a snap. Thanks to The Tired Mammy Book Club (Instagram). 📚💙
#Blueskybooks
The annual Ennis Book Club festival has just taken place. Yesterday I snuck into an event in which members of an online book club reviewed Moving On. I wanted to hear honest feedback, so I lay low. Thankfully, the reviews were positive with just a few minor criticisms. At the end, as people filed
The Atlantic on a spring Sunday afternoon. Rocky slabs. Light in the sky.
Bag of After Eight Mini Eggs.
Irish bestseller list, Second Chances sitting at number 5.
#3goodthings
1. A walk to the sea. Wild water. Pure air. Deep breaths.
2. Sunday treat. (Sundays are days off in Lent.)
3. Still in the charts. Thanks to all who kept me there for another week.
Phew.
Yes! 😃
Photo from the early 1970s of a man on horseback negotiating the Birmingham inner ring road at Holloway Head
I’m searching for the original and/or rights owner of this fabulous picture of Birmingham in the early 1970s. It popped up on my Instagram feed, but I’ve been unable to track it down.
Any leads? I’m really hoping to use it in a book.
(And would much appreciate a RT please)
When your wife asks you to do one little thing while she's out and you haven't done it.
Shelves in the Ennis Bookshop.
Me by shelves in the Ennis Bookshop.
Flowers in my favourite vase.
A chair with a very important instruction on it.
#3goodthings
1. Ennis Bookshop. Signed everything with my name on it.
2. Flowers.
3. My kind of chair.
Cloudless blue sky.
Baba lambs in the field, two white and one black.
Card with a cat on it.
#3goodthings
1. Glorious spring day. Cloudless sky.
2. Blurry frolicking lambs - I had to zoom because they were far. The black one. 🖤
3. A cute card in the post. So simple. Love the ❤️ nose.
Excuse his language.
@roisinm.bsky.social In these terrible times in this world, it was an absolute joy to read this book. I loved the character of Lydia and her story. It made me cry but it also filled me with happiness.We need more books like yours, a good story, so well written. Thank you Roisin. 😘
