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The day 3 theme of the Explore Your Archive focus week is #EYAMedieval | #EYAMeánaoiseach! Hasten with thy content and forgetteth not to tag 🏷️ @araireland.bsky.social & @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social in your posts #ExploreYourArchive #CuardaighDoChartlann

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“On the ice”
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Puzzle #904
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Blossom Puzzle, December 1
Letters: A I P E R S Z
My score: 233 points
My longest word: 9 letters
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As in most things, a dog solves this problem. 🐾

Took the drone out this morning for proficiency flying.

The Copper Coast is just a photographer's wonderland. And I am very lucky to live here. #Waterford #speirgorm #ireland

Irish bird-lovers: the annual Irish Garden Bird Survey starts tomorrow 🥳 🙌 🎉

If you need a reason to keep going in the darkest days of winter, count birds.

If you want to be a citizen scientist, count birds.

If breakfasts are boring, count birds.

Got a few spare moments? Just count birds.

Strands #637
“Group membership”
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Blossom Puzzle, November 30
Letters: G I L N O T U
My score: 298 points
My longest word: 12 letters
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YouTube video by Cosmo Sheldrake Cosmo Sheldrake - Does the Swallow Dream of Flying

youtu.be/oYgF5VLKUtw?...

Templemore today- Tractor Run! Santy! Pipe Band, Choirs! Local market traders! All on the main square today, as part of the Nollag le Chéile event.
Svenya and Marion from our two partner companies, Book Temple Bookshop and The Crafty Corner will be there, selling books and crafts. #speirgorm

In fairness, there's an awful lot to swear at in the world right now.

Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88 A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88. One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...

Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88

Strands #636
“What a piece of work!”
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Puzzle #902
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Blossom Puzzle, November 29
Letters: E I N O R S T
My score: 344 points
My longest word: 14 letters
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If you’re in central London over the next six weeks, there’s a Snoopy Trail in the Fleet Street Quarter. I’ve illustrated the map that shows where all 12 Snoopys are…

‘They don’t have symptoms’: CAR-T therapies send autoimmune diseases into remission Engineered T cells that have been used to treat ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus show promising results.

Developed initially to target and kill tumors, they are now being engineered to target cells that are contributing to autoimmune diseases, like antibody-producing B cells.
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#bootlegfriday plays to type with a 90's action classic. Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson are on great form in "The Long Kiss Goodnight". I'll post it at 8pm and the fun kicks off at 10pm. Please repost and Merry November. 🎅

The WINNER of the 2025 An Post Bookshop of the Year is...

@chaptersbookstore.bsky.social

#APIBA #StoriesMakeUs

He had brain damage and was told he had to be put to sleep.

Today I took Stormzy to run on the beach.

I promise this will set you up for the weekend ❤️

Strands #635
“If all else fails ...”
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