@gracehpeacock
Brontë fan looking at Patrick and 18th century. By day, Public Affairs person. Northern Irish, with love of books and music. Advocate for equality, higher education, a vibrant night time economy, and safe communities.
A spectacular #IrishBookWeek as it included a visit to @bridge_books_dromore where it is the final day of 20per cent sale on Irish books such as these two gems
#supportsmallbusiness
#bestbookstore
Another addition to an obessive Brontë collection
That should have come with a content warning on iPlayer later, rather than traumatising millions live pre-watershed.
#StreetArt #Belfast I wished I was more like nature, her secret is patience
#StreetArt
#Belfast
I wished I was more like nature, her secret is patience.
A Redwood in Bessbrook
#Mournes
Happy #WorldBookDay
@gracehpeacock.bsky.social 👍🏻
“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”
#VinegarValentines
Anonymous trolling pre-social media
A little random backstreet celebrating art - the 175th anniversary of Belfast School of Art at Ulster Uni and some recent street art looking in
Everyone keep writing their little essays and books and thinking their thoughts about literature and culture and art, ok? I want them, pretty sure lots of other people do too.
Escaping to 18th century France #ByeMonday
Pictures put you in front of a reality that most of the times you don't want to see, don't want to know about, don't want to get involved.
Oliviero Toscani
1942 to 2024
It will always be a privilege of my life to have seen him in Belfast.
Great, I'm a Westlife cover
10 authors I want to read for the first time this year:
Michael Magee
Mona Awad
Ann Radcliffe
Amanda Peters
Samuel Richardson
Anne Tyler
Alexander Chee
Patrick Suskind
Helen Oyeyemi
A S Byatt
"His soul swooned softly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead"
Set #OTD 1904, The Dead by James Joyce
Email bullet points
🎵I wish you a hopeful #Christmas
I wish you a brave new year
All anguish, pain and sadness
Leave your heart and let your road be clear🎵
A white Christmas in the Mourne Mountains (no gondola required)
22 December
It's Creme eggs with Xmas wrapping paper time of year
#WinterSolstice
The return of the light
"Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life."
~ Thich Nhat Hahn
Christmas at Ulster Folk Museum, including the chestnuts roasting on an open fire
Works for me.