Colm and I are busy fundraising this month for Breakthrough Cancer Research, which supports research into difficult to cure cancers, including lung, oesophageal, liver, stomach, pancreatic and brain cancer. Donations welcome!
Team Treanor Swim 5K in June www.idonate.ie/fundraiser/g...
Giant daisies with buttercups and grass beneath.
The giant #daisies from some #wildflower seeds I planted last year have been thriving in the sunny, dry weather over the past few weeks. They are up to my waist as they face up to the sun. And the #buttercups closer to the ground are pretty beautiful too.
The narrow strip is Bertra Beach, viewed from the summit of Croagh Patrick on 17 May 2025.
The fields around me in Mayo, Ireland are glowing with them at the moment. Beautiful.
I feel like I’ve never seen as much speedwell before as I have in the past week or so. There’s even some right outside my garden office door.
A patch of meadow grass(es) with yellow buttercups, nettles, purple clover, a dandelion seed head, and more.
A patch of Mayo meadow for #WildFlowerHour.
I’ll have to make the most of having a son studying there to make a few more visits. 😊
I took a lovely #StetWalk or two in Oxford on Tuesday and Wednesday, visiting my son. He brought us around the deer park at Magdalen College. It was beautiful in the sunshine.
Works every time for me.
An Inspector Calls title page on an e-reader on the reader’s lap, a black and white cat to her right on the grass.
I’m doing some advance reading before a new #editing job. The office manager is supervising and a loud robin is declaring his reign over the garden from a telephone wire. #freelancelife
I had missed all your action, @roisinm.bsky.social, but the card gave me a clue! Wishing you continued recovery. Here’s a happy cat photo from this afternoon to help.
Yes!
Cuckoo flower, dandelion and white cabbage butterfly, photo taken yesterday at Clare Lake, Claremorris, Co. Mayo. #wildflowerhour
I have abandoned it for work since starting it, but hope to return.
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A dilute calico cat sitting on a bed beside a copy of Homer’s Odyssey.
… and another, called Mouse.
Black and white cat between an orange-flowering shrub and a non-flowering rose bush, on a stone bed.
Book, water bottle, and coffee for a gardening break. Book is Kristen Tate’s Novel Study.
I was #proofreading my #garden today, under feline supervision and with a #reading break. I have found that idea more appealing than #weeding, so it’s what I tell myself I’m going to do.
And oddly, have we had any rain yet in April?
View of a book and garden from a reader’s viewpoint. The reader is sitting in a garden.
Taking a #StetRead in the sunshine outside my office.
And another reservation is made. #libraries #books #reading
Two books side by side, The Cleaner by Mary Watson on the left, pale pink cover with a key image, and Nesting by Roisín O’Donnell on the right, darker pink cover with a coastal black and white photograph (rocks and water, the edge of a woman holding children close to the far right).
The value of #Mayo County Library and the national interlibrary loan system. I’ve just finished one book I requested and am about to start another. #library #reading #books
Just did Mouse, and she was exceptionally calm. Now we just need to capture Puss for a morning vaccination on Thursday. 🤞
Puss: This old thing? Oh, okay.
Alfie: This person who feeds me, talks to me and shares her bed with me is trying to kill me … again! I must escape!
Mouse: I’ll just lie low and maybe she’ll forget she didn’t dose me.
I’m putting it off till tomorrow. 😳
When comments are peppered with errors.
Blue and white signposts by a canal, with an orange dredging digger on the opposite bank, reflected in the water. Blue sky with small white clouds.
The river Boyne below an aqua duct
Canal water behind tree trunks
A single-arched bridge over a canal, with blue sky and white clouds reflected in the still water.
A canal #StetWalk on a cold but bright day near Longwood, Co. Meath. Always a nice way to break a journey.
