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Thursday, November 27th, 2025

Today was my last working day for 2025. I’m off until January. Christmas starts now!

Sunday, November 16th, 2025

Reading The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien.

Buy this book

Friday, November 14th, 2025

Remy on stage in front of a slide that reads: Welcome. Grab a seat.

Kicking off #ffconf!

Sunday, June 29th, 2025

A man playing fiddle with a woman playing flute.

Sunday session

An ancient stone tomb in a lush green and rocky landscape.

Megalithic

Wednesday, June 11th, 2025

A woman playing flute next to a woman playing fiddle together at a table.

Wednesday session in Camden

Monday, April 7th, 2025

A path winding between trees on gentle mounds of green grass under a clear blue sky. A line of trees in the distance with rolling hills behind them under a clear blue sky.

Went for a stroll around The Shire this afternoon.

Thursday, August 15th, 2024

Going to Pittsburgh. brb

Sunday, June 23rd, 2024

A hand holding a fiddle in front of a woman playing fiddle and a man playing tin whistle.

Sunday session

Friday, February 23rd, 2024

Going to Belfast. brb

Sunday, November 12th, 2023

A man playing mandolin and a woman playing fiddle—she’s holding it in the crook of her arm. A man playing banjo in a pub.

Sunday session

Tuesday, December 6th, 2022

Replying to

Rather than tone-policing what I write, might I suggest just not following me in the first place? Then you’re guaranteed not to see any more snark from me.

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022

Going to Galway. brb

Monday, August 8th, 2022

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Design is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.

(with apologies to Melvin Kranzberg)

Sunday, January 30th, 2022

My heart besieged by anger, my mind a gap of danger.

— Séamus Heaney, The Road To Derry

Wednesday, August 25th, 2021

Goodnight, Zürich!

Goodnight, Zürich!

Tuesday, August 17th, 2021

Replying to

Golden retriever kind …but red golden retriever, so not so golden. Looks quite similar to an Irish red setter, doesn’t he?

Sunday, August 1st, 2021

Checked in at Queen's Park. Bark In The Park! — with Jessica map

Checked in at Queen’s Park. Bark In The Park! — with Jessica

Tuesday, July 6th, 2021

Replying to

I have a dedicated /notes section (just like I have a dedicated /links section) but on the homepage everything is in one stream.

(Except for replies—like this one—which don’t appear on the home page, just in /notes.)

Saturday, November 28th, 2020

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Congratulations!