Like I said - the great Martin Hayes.

Yes -wonderful. Uplifting, haunting. Addictive stuff. Yes, lovely to meet you. Meant to ask had you heard of a S. Africa writer, Ivan Vladislavic? A recent discovery.

Conan the dog cheering for Mayo.

Up Mayo. Up for the match: Grandson and Son-in-Law. Wonderful.

Four South Wexford hens, posing for the camera.

@dedalusdenaries.bsky.social Just finished this. Insightful, fair. Some lovely distinctions. Love the landscape evocation. Good advise there for poets - 'surrendering to rhymes and phrases that dilute clarity...' (guilty)

First encounter. Punchy, subtle collection of poems.

4th of July Trumpculters. This girl's future is not safe.

Section of photo collage by Spanish artist R Ostega

Great idea. Pipe into which you drop ( very satisfying) your recyclable paper cup (not into a general refuse bin). Coffee hut, Ann Valley, Dunhill, Co Waterford, Ireland.

Wonderful.

What gradd is this?

Don't tell another 'I found God' patriot in the U. S of A.

American Gothic in South Wexford, Ireland.

Dmitry Markov photo: could be an ICE agent with pic of Trump on wall. (tap on image)

Trying to explain to Conan the dog about English politics.

Neil Young always had a finger on the pulse of the body politic in the U.S of A.

Now playing. For the time that's in it.

'The End and the Beginning' by Wislawa Szymborska

from Czeslaw Milosz. I hope this it true.

@johncreedon.bsky.social Where would you be going. Our view here in the wee camper in S Kerry. And chance of some Nina Simone for Gillian. Edward and Gillian

Spencer Platt photo / Getty

Tess the dog. Tomorrow is the goodbye and thankyou day.

Tomorrow, we say farewell to Tess the dog after many years. What a companion.

Tiny Skies series (oil on brass plate) and an oil on canvas from Robert Jackson's solo exhibition at Waterford Gallery of Art, Ireland.

Props table for a Shakespeare play.

Vermeer.

No more than the rest of us, old WB Yeats must have talked a lot of in-shite about the new year to Lady G, In this house, on the Flaggy Shore, N Clare. Perhaps.