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Ian Duhig FRSL on X: "The Sinéad Morrissey poem Joe Biden just quoted from, 'The Coal Jetty', from 'Parallax', winner of the @ForwardPrizes' Best Collection award. photo: Artie Newman https://t.co/mqBssfQJvT" / X The Sinéad Morrissey poem Joe Biden just quoted from, 'The Coal Jetty', from 'Parallax', winner of the @ForwardPrizes' Best Collection award. photo: Artie Newman https://t.co/mqBssfQJvT

A nice thought, Nicholas. I am reminded of this, by Sinéad Morrissey: x.com/ianduhig/sta...

It gives me pause when I walk out from Holywood along the south side of Belfast Lough to think of the city and its history, tucked in to the left as if it’s not there, the centuries of dispute invisible in the sheltered air, the birds of the far north wintering out, as they have for millennia.

2000 miles gets my vote :)
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My brother and I at The Offspring. It was a great show :-)

Tree of the day is this Japanese maple tree (April and October)

Recent trip to the GoT Studio Tour in Banbridge- it was a lot of fun

An excuse to post the Shakespeare joke I found actually funny...

GLENDOWER:
I can call spirits from the vasty deep.

HOTSPUR:
Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?

#shakespearesunday

This is such a nice song: a favourite from this year

Out and about on my birthday :-)

Prague night tour

Tree of the day – a big old sycamore at the Lennon Wall in Prague

Autumn begins – I thought by now this journey Would have ended

I had this little poem in my head all day

By Kobayashi Issa (HT @bashosociety.bsky.social for sharing)

Thanks - I can see the resemblence, but the leaves appear to be v different to stewartia monodelpha. I think its an ornamental cherry of some kind!

Today's tree is this rather special Cedar of Lebanon

I stand by the decision. Looked too good to walk by!

Ha - yes, a poor substitue for the teasle, though mine is sadly on its way out already...

I love it. Such a moving song about accepting loss and change

Mournes today

I did not - just looked it up though! The spiky head was used to lift fibers on wool fabric to make it softer, called teaseling

I love that this plant is someone's favorite. Native over there. Of course it's invasive over here. And personally it's way too "spikey" for my liking. 😂

This teasel plant self-seeded in my garden and is now my favouite. Its about 6ft, with lots of little pools of water where the leaves meet up the stems, making it v popular with insects too

I do like this beech, to the extent I framed a previous photo I took of it!

Tree of the day

We might need to consider the effect of the Earth’s long-term axial tilt cycle here also…

Local, middle-aged woman outside the Europa Hotel in Belfast just now: "It's called 28 Years Later but I don't know what it's about - is it the Good Friday Agreement?

My tree of the day - yew

Very good! I looked up the pub on streetview, and that’s a very impressive one growing on the wall! And the pub has been in business since the 1600s 😮

Exactly what I thought!

Mr Wisteria is, understandably, tree of the day

Wild garlic update