What is the point of Bluesky?

My cousin Shelley sent me a digital copy of this photograph taken in the early 80s, for our mutual grandparents Kathleen & Walter’s 50th Wedding Anniversary. I was in a punk Mennonite phase. Bottom row L-R: My Auntie Sonia, my Auntie Kathy, my cousin Thalia, and my mum Garcia. Top row L-R:

Fires which burn brightly Forest fire smoke obscures the steelworks Hamilton, ON

They’re hissing radiator tunes Hamilton, ON Wilco - Company in my back

Melty

What gets left behind Princeton, ON

Grainer Ayr, ON

Drinking OV Drumbo Pub Drumbo, ON

Yard goats Stuart Street Hamilton, ON

National top of the People’s Republic of Mancunia UTFR

Underbelly Bitch Avenue Hamilton, ON

Breakfast at Roryfest Lally’s Ballyshannon County Donegal

The sun sets slower on Barton Street

Debt of Honour John “Jack” Clough No. 2 Platoon, Second Battalion The Manchester Regiment Killed 01 July 1916 First day of the Somme My great Uncle, late of Springhead, Saddleworth

NIXON GROCER Barton Street Hamilton, ON On the demolition by neglect chopping block, already licked by flames of convenience

Ask not for whom the bell tolls

We will be heroes

Corner house

Box canyon

When is match day again? Father Tierney Park Ballyshannon GAA

r’kid messin about

Lush

Father away

From Samuel Beckett Bridge

Daniel O’Connell Glasnevin

Weirdo

Blue tattoo Ballyshannon

Table for one

Where have they gone to with their faded faces? Those fearless moustachioed men? Horslips - The Wrath of the Rain Mac Diarmada Station Sligo

Engine driver Irish Rail