#3goodthings 1. Return trip to Galway to see the consultant who shot me twice in my dodgy shoulder 6 weeks ago and cured it. Thanks doc. 2. Two of me for twenty euro. Bargain. 3. Next book coming along. Slow burner, but hopefully the extra time will do it good.

#3goodthings 1. George showing great vigilance since I appointed him keeper of the cat flap. No marauder has a chance. 2. Lunchtime salad. I may have got a bit carried away with the strawberries. 3. Pink fuchsia. 🩷🩷🩷🩷

#3goodthings 1. Trip to Limerick for mother's 98th birthday. She's wilting in the heat but otherwise fine. Next door neighbour went door to door on the road, and everyone signed a card. ❤️ 2. Flapjacks. Choc topping looks scribbled, but tasted fine. 3. Signing latest in @omahonysbooks.bsky.social

#3goodthings 1. Patio umbrella on last legs. Bottom half of original pole snapped when a breeze blew the whole thing sideways, so now brolly's wedged into another. Days numbered. 😂😂 2. Charlie swooning in the heat. 3. New potatoes from neighbours garden. Balls of flour. Forgot pic. 😋😋🙈🙈🙈

pretty terrified of the world, and it's taken me over a year to gain his tentative trust. No more vets. He can use his nine lives from now on to get by.

#3goodthings 1. Glorious blue sky day filled with sunshine. Spent a lot of it under the patio umbrella, trying to write. 😂😂😂 2. Summer colour over a neighbour's wall. Red hot pokers, or their yellow/orange cousins? 3. Billy, my friend again after traumatising him earlier. Detail to follow.

#3goodthings 1. Grand niece and her small (adorable) brother. 2. A bee enjoying the pink poppies. She really got stuck in. 3. A new arrival in SuperValu.

#3goodthings 1. Youngest bro brought me back a sunglasses case from his holidays.... 2. ...and second youngest saw these pj's in Lidl and thought I might like them. They have their moments, my brothers. 3. Mystery plants. Shook out some old seeds a few weeks ago. No idea.

Ah here - no rain, and nice temps, but a lot of cloud ahead for West Clare. ☁️☁️☁️

Paperback publication day tomorrow in Ireland and the UK. EYES PEELED. 👀👀

Noooooo - anemones just spread and get better! Mine are beginning to bloom, snap doesnt do them justice....I can't believe you got rid!

#3goodthings 1. Poppies popping out. 2. Sun finally pushed through in the afternoon, and the clouds slunk away. 3. Storytime in Miltown Malbay library, an extra session for the festival week. The usual craic.

#3goodthings 1. Lunchtime pasta salad. Looks blah but v tasty. Garlicky, cheesy, basily, tomatoey. 2. Music at the beach. Cloudy, but sun filtering through to fall on the water. 3. Baba moos.

#3goodthings 1. Roadside colour. Peak bloominess. 2. Spanish Point beach. 3. Irish Guide Dogs have come for the festival.

#3goodthings 1. Paddy taking a break from the tough business of being a cat. 2. Tá an van ar ais. #radionagaeltachta 3. Gee gees over a wall.

#3goodthings 1. Willie Clancy Summer School 2026 cranking into being. Lots of new faces around town. 2. Montbretia beginning to colour the roadside. 3. SO many buds on the wild poppies.

#3goodthings 1. Early morning walk. Blue sky trying to poke through the cloud. Never really made it but day stayed dry. 2. Crocosmia over a wall. Talk about a colour pop. 3. Peak spottiness.

#3goodthings 1. Pretty flower display on a Limerick street - well done, Limerick council. 2. Broke out my new slippers. Pure new wool. Tootsies happy. 3. Freesias. The scent. 💛💛💛

#3goodthings 1. Car got A+ in its first NCT. What? No faults is A+. 2. Had celebratory brunch afterwards with @siobhanmoloney.bsky.social ... 3.... and Sadie, who didn't beg once. 🐶❤️

Self promo alert: 99c offer is US, 99p is UK for the month of July. As you were.

It's lovely, Gill. Wish I could knit quickly- I've had a jumper on the needles for months, do a bit every night but it's taking FOREVER! Back is done and I'm halfway up the sleeves (both together) ..... hopefully finished in time for winter! 🙈🙈🙈

#3goodthings 1. Organic lettuces from youngest bro's garden. Pretty good. 2. Peruvian Lily coming into its own. 3. Rang three companies with separate issues/queries: in each case I was met with professionalism and kindness. Heartening.

#3goodthings 1. Realised today that these plants are strays from the beautiful poppies I planted across the way last year - yay! 2. Seeded bread, after a long baking hiatus. 3. Invested in one of my favourite authors. Joins the tower by the bed, but I'll get to him.

#3goodthings 1. George watching the world go by. 2. Lettuce from a brother's garden. 3. Passed 5k words in the new book. This one coming out more slowly, all good. Time for a shift in pace.

Ah well, the sun was lovely while it lasted. ☔️

#3goodthings 1. Scorchio. Lahinch coastline in the sunshine. 2. Massage. 90 minutes of switch-off-the-world. A sign in the therapist's room. 3. Grapes. Moreish.

#3goodthings 1. Charlie checking out my new hat. Penneys, hun. 2. Elderflowers on the wane. Might get another batch out of them. 3. Teeny birds on a wire.

#3goodthings 1. Sweet Pea. No scent, sadly, but pretty. 2. Soap. I could inhale it all day. 3. Flamingo tree. Pretty in pink.

#3goodthings 1. Another magnificent day. 2. Bought a kettlebell. Minding me muscles. 3. Pink daisies are out.

#3goodthings 1. What a blue sky day. Took a break from the writing to walk to Spanish Point beach. 2. Cows enjoying the sunshine. 3. Begonia gearing up to tumble.