ellenbrickley.bsky.social
Writer, reader, Dubliner. Strong opinions about chai lattes. Grateful recipient of 2x Agility Awards + 2x Bursary Awards from the Arts Council. Essays & YA #amquerying
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I am also fine with this!
Want some magpies? 😁
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It does actually! Someone does a murder and is underpaid for it and that's how the deception unravels - because of one piece of silver... 🙂
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Thanks for the recs - I wonder if free newsletters would release me from the guilt! :)
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a designated coffee-break type time or as they arrive? Do you subscribe to many of them?
It may be that I just don't vibe with them but subscribing to newsletters made me feel guilty, both for not giving enough attention to content I paid for, and for not interacting.
Any thoughts welcome!
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a personal friend, I perceive them as digital clutter or another obligation and archive them and then never read them. I'm loath to subscribe because I won't get the value from them.
Is anyone subscribing to multiple substacks and actually reading and enjoying? How does it look? Do you read them at
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5. The sheer range of Christopher Guest who played both Count Rugen in the Princess Bride and Nigel Tufnell in Spinal Tap.
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4. Bruno, the man who designed and built the first aqualung so he could defect from East Germany to Denmark.
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3. The fact that the Northern Lights once powered a conversation between two telegraph operators.
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2. Museums! Often free, or cheap, and when they're not they tend to be worth it. There's something quite magical about stuff so cool that no individual gets to own it but we're all allowed to have a look.
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1. Knitting while listening to podcasts! I can't sit still and concentrate, and I can't knit without a distraction - nothing like combining the two!
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Sounds good, just bought! Best of luck - while Hell unfolds, we absolutely need art ❤️
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I haven't done the Guinness tour in years but I don't know if they mentioned that! It's an interesting little piece of social history :)
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Can confirm! My late uncle was a doctor in Dublin and Guinness used to send specially sized small bottles of Guinness to the maternity hospitals for patients to have after giving birth. My uncle remembered this from his training in the 60s in the National Maternity Hospital.
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Oh, how lovely! What a gorgeous inversion of when we meet Vimes in the first book and the city is a woman who "brung him low" ❤️
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Nope, no joy on that one yet.
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Thanks so much Jen, and the same to you and yours ❤️
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I really wish we had more opportunities to say a firm "no" to all these things like AI and sharing our entire address book. I'm really tired of the "maybe later" and "not now" options. Let me say "no" to things you're forcing on me.
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Thank you! Never would have gotten that on my own
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Yes! How are you getting on with the Gaeilge? Can trade hints for those ones.