Noooo! Not the tadpoles!

Ah look at him though, 'neath the craaaaabappple.

Licensee agreement:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/housing/r...

Move to allow garden cabins is being done to ‘ ‘r̶e̶m̶o̶v̶e̶ r̶e̶d̶ t̶a̶p̶e̶’ make housing supply someone else's problem and expense says Tánaiste.

Also, garden cabins handily removes tenants' rights from the occupier.
www.thejournal.ie/modular-home...

Older people are just really lost with it all.
Fuck me. Cost effective as always, the VHI!

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Sorry for the o/t rant.

Also Fair Deal and Enduring Power of Attorney arrangements are complex to say the least. That's unacceptable when you consider the often distressing circumstances under which vulnerable people are finding it necessary to arrange these things.
(Tip: *everyone* should arrange PoA before they need to)

Don't get me started. The stress and upset I see every week is just awful - also because this useless shitbag govt insist on moving govt interactions online. Revenue and DSP still have paper forms, but with Revenue you often have to call and ask for them, explaining why you can't use online!

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Mmm! Now that's exfoliation!
I can't wait for their Step 2 product, RockFace™

*disclaimer : it is not currently possible to pause time.

So, No. 7 new skin...stuff pauses time (wut?) with its "glaciology" (wut?)
I don't know what this means. Does it freeze your face? Does your face start melting faster than is expected?
When you forget to use it and you unpause time do you age all at once?

No. 7 'Believe in possible' *

a man in a blue shirt is holding a balloon in front of a home depot box ALT: a man in a blue shirt is holding a balloon in front of a home depot box

I also now have a foot/ankle support

(she was based there - the Mother House didn't stump up for an all-expenses paid trip to the Caribbean)

By which I mean just Sr. Aloysius, or what have you. My aunt's given name was Sr Perboyre, which she was less than thrilled about. Fortunately she lived to see that done away with and she was restored to her real name: Sr. Clem Hewson. Her community had a renaming party in Trinidad.

Also didn't know that nuns were (creepily) not enumerated with their surnames - and sometimes even without their birth forenames, though I think that changed after the 1926 census.

Having a lovely rummage through the 1926 census. I had no idea my paternal gran had a younger brother or that he lived with my grandparents, my then 4 year old dad and his 0 year old brother. I also didn't know they lived in Fontenoy St before Leinster St.
nationalarchives.ie/collections/...

So much of the fun of Irish census chat is comparing officially listed names of your relatives with what they were actually called in real life.

Haha, yes! My paternal gran was Julia Frances known in life as Fanny, but also as Maureen.

Queen - Don't Stop Me Now (Official Video) YouTube video by Queen Official

Up yours, body - I have a bath, Epsom salts and nurofen plus.

youtu.be/HgzGwKwLmgM?...

I am digging up paving slabs to prepare for the new clematis.
My 56 year old brain knows how to effectively do this, my 56 year old body is screaming at me to stop at once.

Thanks to a trip oop north (Newry) I can now delight in eating plain Wesleydale without bloody inappropriate fruit in it. (Apricot? You can fuck off with that).

I consumed it with a hot cross bun - adjacent to the fruit, as the Holy Rite instructs.

Poor Casey LaLonde, I feel he's waited his entire life to relaunch a Joan Crawford rehabilitation. With Christina - "omg, 25 years later I just remembered an entire book's worth of other things Joan did" - Crawford now almost 87 he's had to wait a long time. I'm so happy he got to this point.

Sex and drugs and poisoned champagne: 90 years on, we can finally see Joan Crawford’s wildest film A legal dispute led to Letty Lynton, the golden age superstar’s controversial drama, being sealed away. Only now can audiences see what all the fuss was about

Joyous news! 🎉 This film had begun to be restored in 2012 before it became clear it couldn't be released.
We have a copy of this that is badly washed out in places and with serious soundtrack issues. It'll be a dream to see this absolute cracker all done up.

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

Update: He keeps shouting "I'm the President of Earth!"

Photo of Donald Trump walking alone at night in what looks like a park. He is dressed in a navy overcoat with a white shirt, red tie and his stupid red cap. His arms are dangling at his sides and he has a a vacant expression.

🚨 Do you know this man?🚨
This elderly man was found wandering in the middle of the night, shouting obscenities, racist slurs and threatening to destroy humanity.
He is approximately 6ft tall, with disproportionately small hands and was evidently dressed with someone's assistance.

Everyone understands there's no such thing as a free fuel package, don't they?
Some stealth "temporary" measure will spring into being down the line, similar to USC after the banks got bailed out.
People do have power to attain their statutory rights (thankfully), but benefit in any way from FF/FG?

I am hopeful that the Eternal Spirit of Emily Dickinson is slowly but surely possessing Trump, resulting in him becoming a recluse, baking a lot of cakes and growing plants instead of being a fucking incompetent moron with delusions of grandeur.
Help us, EED, you're our only hope.

*hypothalamus bangs on adjoining wall of prefrontal cortex room*