The amount of events and festivals around the country using genAI for their promotional images is slightly maddening. All about supporting local, except their local artists.
A note on our use of the word ‘grand’ is here required. It might sound like a relative or good or great but in our usage it was something different. ‘Grand’ was how we acknowledged that something wasn’t good or great while also saying nothing could be done and there was no point going on about it. Ambrose relied on the word a lot at sea. ‘It’ll be grand,’ he’d say as the gear strained. ‘It’ll be grand,’ he’d say when the crew expressed concern over the ten-year-old engine. He was the same at home. ‘It’ll be grand,’ he’d say, scraping a dot of mould from a slice of white bread before sticking it in the toaster. ‘It was grand,’ he’d say when Christine asked him about his childhood.
On the peculiarly Irish use of "grand", from Garrett's Carr's novel The Boy from the Sea
More on that usage here: stancarey.wordpress.com/2019/06/27/a...
Overheard someone on the street today, ‘My operation is soon, I’m psyched!’
A ginger and white cat sitting on a wooden floor staring
Why is he looking at me like this
A cat with a white face looking out of a round hole in a box
A mostly white cat with some black markings lying on a grey blanket
LOST CAT! Milo has gone missing from Seapark apts on Mount Prospect Ave in #Clontarf. He’s an indoor cat and still quite young so he’s probably pretty scared. Please let me know if you spot him hiding somewhere in the area. Thanks so much!
This is in Dublin, Ireland btw.
Big shout out to Eoin MacRaghnaill from The Wicklow People and @Independent.ie for highlighting our urgent fundraising appeal here at World Bee Sanctuary.
m.independent.ie/regionals/wi...
Link to help us out:
gofund.me/4b0e3149b
worldbeesanctuary.org/donations/fu...
or
www.gofundme.com/f/g8vut-keep...
I think it’s funny when something says something annoying in your dream because I know it’s all my brain but at the same time I’m thinking ‘What an arsehole’
There are currently two corporations with applications to strip the west coast of seaweed.
There will be a tiny window to put in a submission to these applications but it'd be good to build momentum now and get these applications being talked about locally.
Please sign and share.
I must be talking about the weather too much
‘We're seeing eviction rates not seen in Ireland since the 1850s'
- a headline out government should be ashamed off, but do they even care? A reminder - the 1850s was the period during and after the devastation of the Great Famine #spéirgorm www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
That took the last of my strength for today
I’m sick at the moment so everything is irritating, but the whole German ‘house burping’ thing is so annoying and even merits an article on the RTE website? Like did we not all grow up with opening the windows to ‘air out’ the house?
Ah well best to be safe! Yea I had to replace my one recently , glad you got sorted!
It happened to me at 1 am one time, and I just had a lever wrong on the range/needed cleaning so no one could really help, so just had to get out of the house until it cleared, (with animals) very eerie but so important to have one!
Paint my walls these colours
It’s so scary when they go off! Hope you get sorted soon
That looks gorgeous!
Anybody who is interested in getting a network of plant nurseries that produce native plants locally?
Please get in touch.
if there is a directory already available. let me know.
If not, I will put something together.
We must get these plants into garden centers.
Let’s do it!
One of the earliest references to St Bridget’s Cross speaks of its power to protect the house and its occupants from fire, as recalled in the burlesque poem Hesperi-Neso-Graphia (1735 ed., p. 8)
#imbolc #stbrigidsday #brigid #folclore #fire
I love the extra challenge of doing yoga while being attacked by my cat
The reputed resting place of the 3 saints. Large Granite stone covers the grave. Taken at dusk by Down Cathedral
#LáféileBríd
#SpéirGhorm
In Down, three saints one grave do fill,
Patrick, Brigid and Columcille.
A wooden sign beside a field says ‘St. Brigid’s Well’
Rags hanging in woods by the well of St. Brigid
An open well in the ground, surrounded by mossy rocks
A shrine to St Brigid, in a wood. There’s a statue in a white wooden box and lots of candles, beads, and offerings
Lá Fhéile Bríde agus Imbolg Shona Daoibh!
Curious to learn more about #StBrigidsDay?
👂Podcast exploring Brigid in folk tradition through the National Folklore Collection at UCD: shorturl.at/pLs0G
📔Assoc Prof Elva Johnston writes on Brigit of Kildare as the first Irish saint to be celebrated in detail by early writers:
shorturl.at/l0OFD
Actually just have my zoom out recording there because there’s a lot of calls this morning!
Haha yes! I suppose they don’t make a lot of sound but some young ones were giving out that day
Ah I get you now on the sounds- also I think it’s interesting how birds can have different sounds too, like how robins have a few different songs. But yea it’s great turning it on and seeing what it picks up
