The Wormhole, natural swimming spot on the Aran Islands☺️

Georgian Dublin ( from the chess club ). Carriages, no horses, only horse power these days☺️

The Icemen Cometh😳

The Crazies, wasn’t that a horror movie?? This from from Martyn Turner, Irish Times over the weekend🙂

The New Yorker and Donny, always on the money🙄

Dublin City centre today🌞
No tariffs on sunshine☺️

The Terrible Tyrant starter pack☺️

Back in the game! After three months off, one day only, 15/10 tournament. Drawn against one of three Grand Masters so not off to a great start! Played well for seven moves😂

Slouch on a couch

Sign of the times☺️

Moving on from MAGA goes to the Oscars . . .

Wordle 1,378 1/6

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

As starts to the day go, that’s pretty good, it’s probably downhill from here☺️

#HappyBlueskyMonday.
Some of you may be familiar with the beautiful trad song “It’s a long way from Clare to here”; Clare in the distance, Galway bay in between and the famous diving boards at the end of Salthill strand in Galway🇮🇪

Where’s the guillotine when you really need it?

And the winner is . . .

No eggsplanation needed ( sorry🙄 )

It wouldn’t be Putin’s useful orange idiot by any chance?

Yep, you got that one right!
I’m a huge GO fan☺️

Some things never change🙄

I don’t know if reports that this gobshite has been a Russian asset since the 80s are true, but they are certainly believable🫣

I think Greenland or Panama more his style, not unlike that other fascist bully Mussolini invading Abyssinia during WW2.
Yep let’s keep in touch on travel plans.

I’m supposed to be going to US over next 18 months, to visit someone there, won’t be going on principle, I can see unrest there in the near future.
Don’t think they’ll invade Canada, remember he’s a huge bully, it would be one of the most stupid and profoundly traitorous acts ever.

If I can be of any help with info, pleased to help. By coincidence I’m thinking of a long stay in Canada, not sure about emigrating, but perhaps a long stay, haven’t gone into the detail yet ( it’s a very big country ), very small country here, you may find it only slightly bigger than your garden😊

It wasn’t at the time, but well spotted. It was just an exclamation of well founded, as it turned out, apprehension ☺️

Correction, the best solution, but unfortunately unlikely☺️

Hey Don, this looks like a forest you don’t want to mess with . . .

I can’t see the Nazi or the Russian stooge lasting four years at the rate they are going ( hopefully ☺️ )

Just listening to the news from Saudi, I’m still confused, is Russia now going to be the 51st US state or is the US going to become a Russian republic?? Nice work Don Marco🫣😱🇺🇦🇺🇦

The Mounties always get their woman☺️

Thank you Morella, I think in these difficult and indeed dangerous times we all need a laugh once in a while. Conor