Nicholas Allen

Come say hello to WP 11 as part of @dublinbookfest.bsky.social Sat Nov 8, all welcome

Super, I was thinking the other day I should learn to make pasta. Pesto always makes me feel like I’m a Durrell

@pamelaclemit.bsky.social will appreciate this

Now do the next one

Soon to be a boiled frog I fear

Only thing we use the ice cubes for!

It’s hard!

Too big for a kestrel I think

Beautiful, thank you

20 years of Aldi in Ireland: How discount supermarkets changed the way we shop It was greeted with a mix of excitement, suspicion and lots of confusion from Irish shoppers when it first arrived

‘a recent survey which had found most Germans preferred Aldi to religion’

From when Aldi came to Ireland

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I’ll check and while my German is not good enough any more to make a translation I can hear what you mean in the pronunciations

This one, which to be honest reads a little archaically

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I loved his music and then saw him supporting the red hot rubbish peppers millennia ago and it was like watching a yoga class. Only Glenn Danzig is sillier

Indeed!

Manchán Magan 1970 - 2025 💔

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Barra from Eriskay

That’s so sad, I talked to him only a couple of weeks ago. A kind and brilliant person, gentle and an advocate for Tim Robinson among many other things. What a pity. Love to his family and friends.

I am at a lecture and the speaker keeps saying ‘as far back as the nineties’ and I‘m like

As an aside, Gisèle Freund wrote one of the first doctorates on the social history of photography in 1936 at the Sorbonne; which was only published 40 years later; Benjamin supposedly attended her defence and the book is influenced by his 1931 ‘A Little History’ essay

Thank you, I don’t know

I did much the same a few minutes ago

Thank you Tim. We shall see…

Isn’t it? If you ever have a few minutes in the library this is a wonderful read.

I thought it would be a perfect epigraph!

Gisèle Freund, ‘Walter Benjamin in the Bibliothèque Nationale’ (1939)

Benjamin fled Paris in the following summer to escape the German invasion, and lacking the necessary exit documents committed suicide at the Spanish border town of Port Bou on September 27, 1940. Things fall apart.

The work is the death mask of its conception.

Walter Benjamin