You'd cry 'Some woman's perfectly straightened and shiny hair
Has maddened every mother's son':

The cover of a jigsaw box. The illustration is made up of 18 different ladybird illustrations, some cover pictures and some internal pictures, all featuring young children or toddlers.

A family friend found this vintage Ladybird 1000-piece jigsaw in a charity shop and gave it to me.

Isn’t is a thing of beauty?

My great-grandmother wrote 'Out of Work' for her adult daughter (aged 17) but census enumerator changed it to 'Home Duties'. Women can't be unemployed!
#1926census

Caricature of Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau, painted onto a circular board with a handle, designed to look like a magnifying glass.

Clouseau est fini.

#caricature #art

I finally got Manannán transcribed. It is the 1939 Irish language sci-fi book with the first Spaceship using a gravity assist in literature.

Next up is conversion to modern spelling. If you know a list of known changes (annso->anseo) or can even just help by reading please let me know.

Cartoon. Two men shaking hands, one is saying to the other “Ah, Mr Featherstonehaugh! I'm so glad this is written as I have no idea how to pronounce your name.”

This black-and-white studio portrait photograph captures Rosalind Elsie Franklin, the brilliant British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose meticulous research produced Photograph 51—the iconic X-ray diffraction image that revealed DNA’s double-helix structure and proved pivotal to the 1953 Watson-Crick model of the molecule. Shown in a close-up, three-quarter view from the shoulders up, Franklin appears in her late twenties or early thirties, her dark, wavy hair neatly styled and swept back from her face. She wears a simple, dark collared blouse or shirt with a crisp, professional appearance that reflects the understated elegance typical of mid-20th-century scientific women. Her expression is calm and intensely focused: direct gaze slightly off-camera to the viewer’s left, lips gently closed in a subtle, knowing half-smile, conveying quiet confidence, intellectual depth, and quiet determination. The plain, softly lit studio background with its neutral gradient emphasizes her face and upper torso, creating an intimate, timeless composition that places her poised presence at the absolute center.

Chemist & X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin's meticulous research was instrumental in uncovering DNA's molecular structure.

Most famous for her role in the DNA double helix discovery, her work also revolutionized our understanding of viruses & coal. Died #OTD in 1958, age 37. #WomenInSTEM

Ah, a mere child, so you are!

Are you old enough to remember Cheno Unction ads? "'Tis a quare name, but great stuff!" That's what you'll be hit with next. 😀

Well, it will make a change from the other AI ads.

girlies i’m on RTE radio one this morning around half ten talking about cozy games! as always i am coming out swinging for the girls and the sims, for rejection of violence as a necessity in puzzle solving, for a soft life in stardew valley

the side of a Dublin Bus. the advertisement reads "Full-time or part-time driver? G'wan, you pick!"

I can't be the first person to have read this and thought that Dublin Bus is trying to encourage job applications by saying "G'wan you prick"

A 'Dinosaur Smarties' Easter egg.

Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.

*drooling* I'd happily just eat them, and mothing else!

Roasties?

Extremely loadbearing tweet for me. A perfect object. Pronounced billlewwwwen for maximal effect.

Leap card in a washing machine

Found my LEAP card anyway

The Central Bank has launched a €15 coin to mark Sean O’Casey’s centenary. It retails for €90. It is very much what he would have wanted

One of my favourites of his.

Glen Baxter has died. His drawings of cowboy art critics and wimples were an absurdist joy. RIP

Ah, RIP Glen Baxter. I always loved his work, it had that unsettling quality you found in Rupert Bear. His art-loving cowboys were a particular favourite.

An beirt acu ag caitheamh culaith! 😀

52 years ago on March 27, 1974, 'The Rockford Files" starring James Garner premiered as a TV movie on NBC.

Current mood.

During the depths of winter, it remains dark until about 08:15, with the sun rising at around 08:40 or so. Permanent summer time would push that out to 09:15/09:40.

No judgement, but that's what we need to appreciate would happen (and why, we suspect, it didn't go down so well the last time).

Absolutely down with that sort of thing!

ALT text for cartoons etc ALT text for cartoons etc 100% 11 B38 Cartoon of two people, one angry-looking fellow with curly hair shaking his fist at a perplexed-looking balding man saying "Bloody baldies, combing over hair!". Cartoon of two people, one angry-looking fellow with curly hair shaking his fist at a perplexed-looking balding man saying "Bloody baldies, combing over hair!".

😀

But can he type

Jaysus Holly! Pace yourself. 😀