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I’m more a chatter-with & connector-of people than a poster. I’ll remember years later that you once said you like pancakes & tag you in a recipe I just found.
Banner - a flopsed rabbit called Chive.
Avatar - me in a Giant Chair in Danish Design Museum.
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One of the things that made my Dad fall for my Mam way back in the early 1960s is that she drove her own car at a time when very few women in Ireland could drive. Dad co-founded our local Motor Club. I grew up worshipping Rosemary Smith: www.rte.ie/sport/motors...
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Exactly! Avoid the claim of ‘one careful lady owner’, and look at maintenance!
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Nothing beats that. I had my 1999 Honda Civic running for years. I say that car died from Covid. It had a bit of rust I knew about. I got Covid. I got Long Covid. And I sat unable to do anything and watched the rust progress. Car too far gone to save by the time I had wherewithal to engage again.
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Love this as was brought up to be wary of “one careful lady driver” cars with low mileage and respectful of high mileage cars owned by people who cared for them (never former company cars driven by salespeople!).
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I rave about school my kids went to (Ireland): never on tables cos not all go onto uni but everyone guided to some next step. Academically minded still progress (my youngest doing medicine), but so do vocational. And so do kids in crisis who want to drop out, and are helped to step sideways instead.
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Be good to see beneath stats: schools that reject/repel anyone “different” get high transfers to uni (main measure of success), look good on paper, but often lack pastoral care.
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map was part of Rebuilding Ireland, the grand housing strategy published by government in 2016. The redoubtable housing policy analyst Lorcan Sirr tells me: “It looks like nearly all the Rebuilding Ireland policy information & documents have been taken down from the Department of Housing’s website.”
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So glad it’s Fintan reporting this - much harder to dismiss.
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I really wonder at the people who send their children to her school (allowing some will have limited choice). She’s a small, brittle person.
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Let’s not even start on The Merchant of Venice.
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OMAR!
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Just saying it’s not that simple. I distrust those who belittle/dishearten a building movement (people doing what they can, first steps) as much as those who act like one march means job done. But you’ve union knowledge, prob already helping people organise, so apols if comment seemed argumentative.
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I don’t know about my grandas, both gone before I was born, and my paternal gran (Wexford not Tipp) was not active as far as I know. But my Granny (née Maher) and her sisters were all involved.
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My Gran was in Cumann na mBan. I grew up hearing of hostages taken in the armoured cars to reduce the likelihood of attack (and she not allowed to even offer them a drink of water) and message-running through checkpoints.
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I was with my GP lately and when I said my youngest was studying medicine, even after I gave a girl’s name, the doc checked pronouns is such a normal, ordinary, matter-of-fact way before we continued to talk about the course they’re doing, and it made me so happy.
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Make it a period piece and include a trip to Dublin… bsky.app/profile/doch...
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To be fair, sometimes it’s crashing through the Merrion gates, rather than into a bridge.
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Also, way to go for him not grasping from his mum’s experience 1/ it was her decision not her family’s 2/ sufficient children’s allowance would alleviate one pressure in decision making when faced with unplanned pregnancy (but the WRONG people might be ENCOURAGED to have kids JUST for benefits :o ).
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Get well soon. X
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I see I might have watched a bridge between first three season and fourth - really looking forward to it now!
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I enjoyed the film - made me very curious as to the TV show that preceded it!!! It seemed to be setting up another series: based on the film, I’d have watched the grown-up VM, so am looking forward to getting acquainted with the original!
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*Sometimes not someone.
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My first question is: why wasn’t there another series after that film? It seemed to suggest there would be.
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For various life reasons, I’ve grown very used to someone seeing things out of order and piecemeal, as opportunity arises, even when not ideal, so I am used to it, though I understand why that MO might seem ludicrous to you.
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Upside-down commitment already made - she’s at the reunion.
I love her Dad.
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Needs must when the devil drives.
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I’m very good with fiction, though, v good at extrapolating context. And I’d never get the whole series watched in the next 10 days!
I’m already enjoying a lot of intertextual references! I look forward to getting the rest of the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle and retro-comprehending the inside jokes!
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SQUEEEEEEEE! I know a famous!!!
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I’m very good at ignoring spoilers - to this day I still believe that Elizabeth and Darcy aren’t going to finally get it together, right until they do. And I’m gonna kinda just let it run in the background while doing dinner prep: being a bit of a completist, I want to see it!!
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Well said, that man!