Catherine Crichton

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Watching Love Story and Jackie’s accent makes her sound like this legend.

And I still only managed an abject 40%.

Ireland’s Met Office, a gray building shaped like a pyramid with the top cut off. It’s coming up to sunset and the side of the building not in shade is drenched in gold/copper light.

The Met Office, Glasnevin, in the golden hour.

My favourite is Emma Thompson.

When my husband was applying for citizenship he was asked, months and months after he’d applied, for documentation he supposedly hadn’t submitted. We’d kept photocopies of everything he sent, and he had already supplied the documents they were asking for. Just got lost in the interim presumably.

Dragonfly, Highland Cow, any type of horse. Also herons, couldn’t leave them out.

View of the Sugarloaf mountain from the driveway of the Powerscourt Estate. The mountain rises to a sharp peak, surrounded by wooded areas and green fields. There’s a tree in the foreground with branches still covered in russet leaves, looking unseasonal for March.

Powerscourt Estate. Nice view innit? #Sugarloaf #Powerscourt #Wicklow

Make it make sense!

What is the deal with women’s clothes sizing? Today I bought a dress in size 12. Now, I haven’t been able to fit into size 12 clothes in YEARS. Then, in the same shop, I tried on a size 16 top which was if anything a bit snug fitting. Mad Ted.

Cover of The Ghosts of Rome by Joseph O’Connor. The is set during WWII when the Nazis occupied the city. The strapline reads “In a city under siege, no one can be trusted.”

It’s World Book Day and what better way to mark it than by getting stuck in to the Irish Book of the Year 2025. #WorldBookDay

Seems a bit unprofessional on their part. 😆

Front cover of the classic Watership Down by Richard Adams, illustrated with a painting of, what else, a rabbit.

It was this gem of a book.

Rich red curtains surround the semi-circular stage at 3Arena as staff prepare it for Raye’s performance.

All set for the fabulous Raye at @3arena.bsky.social

Congratulations!

Not that he’s trying to scaremonger or anything. An innocent mistake I’m sure.

I know her next door neighbour (Dublin is a small place). Though that doesn’t look like the house. Maybe she moved!

Wooden jetty at the lakeside, tall reeds in the background, water reflecting blue.

A swan in the evening light on Lough Ennell.

A band of pale wispy cloud above a band of slate gray cloud, above a band of orange sky. Sunset over Lough Ennell.

Lough Ennell. No luck with the starling murmuration but still a beautiful evening.

The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Happy Ireland Reads Day! Current fiction and non-fiction books.

Just when you think you've seen the most brain-dead hysterical media reporting on nonsensical anti-renewables "fears" whipped up on deranged Facebook groups, along comes the epic nonsense below:

“I would argue that a burger needs two really good things,” says TV chef. “Meat and burger buns,” he continues, wagging his finger at the camera.

Controversial or what?!

I defy them not to love it!

Indeed!

Statue of Roger Casement at Dun Laoghaire baths with a bird perched on top of it.

Roger Casement has got himself a bird.

Yes, plus technical issues, local objections and in one case a review of a review.

Head from Irish Times which reads: “Most ‘priority’ flood defences have still not entered planning after eight years.”

This is the most Irish headline ever.

Fast flowing river in a suburban park, looking like a white water rafting course, slightly overflowing one bank.

A pair of swans on the flooded path beside the river Tolka in Dublin.

Poor swans, forced to abandon the turbulent Tolka today. #floods

Sunset at Smithfield Square in Dublin 7, the Jameson Distillery viewing tower is silhouetted on the left with steps in the foreground.

Smithfield Square

I love it. The Song of the Mad Prince.

Covers of these books: The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez An Unsuitable Attachment by Barbara Pym Home Economics by Caitríona Lally Nina Simone‘s Gum by Warren Ellis Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine

January books

St Brigid in stained glass. She is wearing rich blue robes and there is a stylised St Brigid’s cross behind her head. She carries a model of the monastery she founded. She appears to float above the landscape. The lead lines in the panel are disguised by the artist as leafy garlands and the edges are decorated with floral motifs.

Happy St Brigid’s Day!
This is a depiction of her from Harry Clarke’s Geneva Window.