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Former telly executive in BBC & RTÉ. Live central Dublin after 30 years London. Politics, books, gardens, art, cats, travel, poetry. Friendly & approachable unless riled. No bots/trolls/MAGAs/Fascists/Anti-Vaxx please.
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Finally out of the maze of wires and beeping machines and back home. Feeling much better. Two hospital stays in a month. Bring on the Spring!

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Little Gracie making me stay on couch and continue my post-hospital recovery. She is a little gem.

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

Hi all. I don’t follow those who have not posted yet. I block. People have had enough time to post here. Sorry .

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Woo hoo! First time I can cough without a wheeze or feel like I have an Alien baby about to burst from my chest. 12 days. The drugs *do* work but they take their time.

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Upside down Gracie. I think she missed me…

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

Discharged! Great staff at the #BonSecours hospital in Dublin. Feeling much better!

submitted 12 days ago • 25 comments

Pneumonia. Bugger. Getting the good drugs now. Not the best birthday I’ve ever had but would rather feel better.

submitted 15 days ago • 71 comments

Well this will be a big birthday to remember: a major milestone tomorrow but will be spending it in hospital. Saw my GP today and he says my awful lung infection is not improving so 48 hours of inpatient intravenous heavy duty treatment is needed. Bugger. I hope the hospital does birthday cakes.

submitted 16 days ago • 40 comments

@stephenorahilly.bsky.social

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Upside down tickles for Gracie. It’s love, officially.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Well it’s taken a month but tonight lovely Gracie gave in and I’ve been love bombed: heavy purrs and full on kneading. She’s finally clicked that she’s safe and loved in her forever home.

submitted 18 days ago • 21 comments

Slipper killer….

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

Here in Europe we don’t have to rely on teenage science-fiction, we have the hard factual evidence in our European neighbouring countries. I’d implore Americans to quit with the Lucasfilm analogies. Travel here, take it in, then your ‘take’ will have some credibility.

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Jesus, a number of men on here using ‘Star Wars’ fiction to try and explain what’s going on in the USA. Hey, how about travelling to Europe to see the Normandy batteries, the wrecked gas ovens in camps, the mass graves. Idiotic man-boy takes on fascism. Sick of it.

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Gracie showing no interest in the rugby. She’s only 4 months old so plenty of time to learn!

submitted 25 days ago • 9 comments

Gracie has discovered the TV. She’s been bounding around for hours now. Think I’m seeing the real Gracie after her first two shy weeks here.

submitted 26 days ago • 9 comments

Trump has a bypass when it comes to human empathy and compassion. It’s a pathology. He’s so self-identified that all events revolve around *his* weird take on events. Don’t succumb to the lack of basic human decency. We are all better than his take, that came from a weirdly distorted family dynamic.

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

Marianne Faithfull was her own woman. She doesn’t need to be put beside any men of her era to make her relevant. She was a pioneer, a musician, a survivor, an icon in her own right. And yes, I drove through Paris in a sports car, at the age of 40 not 37, but Marianne impelled me. RIP brave woman.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Gracie, in hiding for two weeks, is now biting my toes at 5am. It's progress but painful....

submitted 28 days ago • 14 comments

It is 9 hours long. It takes that long to slowly, calmly lay out the Nazi plan & execution of the Holocaust. I’ve seen it 3 times. I watched 2 hours today (on BBC iPlayer) and it’s simply breathtaking in a very slow, revealing, terrifying way. No better time than now to watch it.

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

In the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, if you have not seen Claude Lanzmann’s “SHOAH” (1985), I recommend you do. Witnesses - farmers, train drivers, Polish and Lithuanian villagers who saw their Jewish neighbours ‘disappear’. It is an extraordinary documentary.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Hope you all got through the night without damage. A storm we won’t forget here in Ireland.

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

Right. I’m going under the duvet. Staying there until it passes.

submitted 34 days ago • 6 comments

Sorry #burlingtondental.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

I have a new bit of me today: an implant! Thanks to Drs Paul O’Reilly (surgery) and Kevin O’Boyle (implant fitting) at #BurlingtinDental in Dublin. The best in the business! You need a reference from your own dentist first but I got superb treatment.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments