Ugh.

I can’t remember a thing about the bit I saw, except that it was awful. Wiped from my memory.

By CSA, you mean the crime to do with kids? (I had to look it up). That’s absolutely appalling — and about half a century out of date as a subject for pathetic humour.

We watched the first 15 or 20 minutes of first episode. It was truly awful.

Five feral pigeons ranged on the branches of a tree, all facing away from the viewer.

I’m pretty sure these pigeons on the paulownia are plotting something. Or maybe they’re just ignoring me steadfastly.

Thank you! I’ll follow that feed 😊

Yes! Apparently that’s it. I had forgotten that from my school-days Irish.

Bruce Springsteen

Happening now. #NoKings

I think the genitive is goirme — but I’m not sure.

I hear you!!! I can’t sleep if I’ve made an error.

Haha!! Good to know.

PS I still have an ancient Irish English dictionary that I bought in the 70s for school. Published in 1962. It has the dot for the séimhiú 😊.

Thank you! I know about lists, and made a couple when I joined Bluesky, and I do follow some feeds.

And thanks for explaining ghorm & gorm. I learned some Irish back in the dark ages at school. I had forgotten about the séimhiú (never knew how to spell that!) for adjectives with fem. nouns.

What is a “single first-mover” tag?🫣

Why the ghorm instead of gorm? Genitive?

Blue sky over the sea.

Friday night question for Irish Bluesky. Is it #spéirgorm or #spéirghorm? Is ghorm the possessive: ‘Sky of blue’?

And another thing: most people (including me) leave off the fada, because we don’t know if hashtags like fadaí.

But, if we could just sort out the gorm vs ghorm issue, I’d be happy.

Good woman!

Timber Press are all about *functional* titles — so I guess that's why you couldn't have the more creative Painting with Plants (I used that as a chapter in one of my books 😄).

A section of a rainbow against a dark and cloudy sky. A row of houses is in the foreground.

A lot of weather here today in #DunLaoghaire #speirghorm #speirgorm

Curious pale spikes with ornate black bands stick up out of the soil. Also here: roundish leaves and yellow dandelion-like flowers.

Closer view of the previous picture: Curious pale spikes with ornate black bands stick up out of the soil. Also here: roundish leaves and yellow dandelion-like flowers

A bit early for #wildflowerhour: Horsetail (Equisetum), but which one? And Colt’s-foot (Tussilago farfara) on cliff ledge in Shanganagh, Co Dublin. The first contains silica and was used for scrubbing pots, and the second is reputed to be good for scratchy throats and coughs.
#storyplants

Dark tree branches and wires silhouetted against dark sky with tiny crescent moon

Moon alert!!! Cruddy phone pic of gorgeous crescent moon, with a corona. If your skies are clear it’s worth paying homage to our beautiful moon 🌙

Ummm… I don’t know what that sentence means. Is Pointless a game?

That’s a good one! I’ll be sure to use that next time I meet a botanist 🤓

Book cover of Urban Plants by Trevor Dines

I'm made happy by all the excellent, slightly abstruse words in Urban Plants by @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social. Here's one: endozoochory (seed dispersal in animal poop). But my favourite so far is BATOLOGIST: one who studies BRAMBLES. Thanks, Trevor, for brightening this rainy day 😊
#urbanplants

It was all artists and hippies and workers connected to the port.

Yes! Death of a mother is pretty world-rocking.

I’ve lived in Dun L for years. It used to be tremendously cheap and unfashionable.

Oh bummer.

Well, if it’s any consolation, I’ve been in bed all weekend with some ghastly respiratory bug. But, yes, the night sky lifts my spirits hugely.

The sky is so good tonight even in my light-polluted town. Jupiter is there. Orion too, and Sirius — brightest star in the sky now.

Oh, that is sad. So young. I was 29 when mine died, also of cancer. But there is a world of difference between 22 and 29.

Oh, that is just perfect. I love that, a “children’s moon”. Your mother sounds like a warm and funny woman!