The bag you’ve yet to pay to put on the plane. Madness!
24.02.2026 00:34
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The bag you’ve yet to pay to put on the plane. Madness!
A screenshot of an airline booking page through Aer Lingus from Leeds to Belfast and back, this weekend, with the grand total of £1094.16 before bags are added.
Shame on Aer Lingus, what kind of price is this for a “saver” flight to Belfast from Leeds and back this weekend?! This is before you even add a bag.
Yorkshire Tea’s sponsorship of Simon Armitage’s ‘Shed’ podcast is genius.
I’m up at the kettle every time he asks his guest “shall we have a cup of tea?”
And of course, having no Punjana or Barry’s, it’s always Yorkshire.
“Do try to be alive to things all day, not bored or superior to others or critical or clever or full of notions and opinions. Remember that life is eternally passing - for others as for yourself and they too have to endure it in the lonely cell of themselves”
- John McGahern, 1961
The front cover of Séamas O’Reilly’s book Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?
A few days after my mum’s funeral in Nov, I had an 8 hr ferry journey ahead of me. I was mooching about Waterstones and came across this wonderful book by @seamas.bsky.social. Serendipity. Can’t quite believe I’d never come across his work before, with us both being from Derry. The book is a tonic.
What does going to the dentist and Gregory Campbell making an arse of himself have in common?
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I’m an Ambassador for this brilliant charity, Bookbanks, giving away books with food parcels at food banks. There are two part-time jobs going for Regional Leads in London and East Anglia.
Link below.
Please share far and wide :)
The cliffs and the sea at Sliabh Liag, Co. Donegal.
Up Sliabh Liag.
A throwback to being in my happy place back in September 2021. An Grianán Fort, County Donegal.
Some more rambles on the week that it was…
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@jenhoganjourno.bsky.social writes: “Children are starting junior infants lacking many of the very basic skills we would have taken for granted 10 years ago, such as how to have a conversation, how to play with toys, how to pretend, how to focus on a task for more than two minutes.”
Terrifying.
54 years ago today ,the British Parachute regiment invaded Derry's Bogside and murdered 14 men and boys .The murderers are protected by their government and the PPS.
The murderers LIED to two inquires,still no justice.
A huge scandal playing out
And sadly there’s the tragedy!
Just to play devil’s advocate, Yeats was living in London when he was 14.
My better half has written the first guest post over on my Substack. She’s a brilliant writer. Go see for yourself.
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I can’t believe the news today, I can’t close my eyes and make it go away. How long must we sing this song?
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You’re too kind, thank you. And happy Sunday.
Thank you so much for reading, Evalyn.
This piece is available on Substack for another week or so before it gets archived. This is an important one to me so if you have a spare five minutes I’d love it if you read it.
open.substack.com/pub/itstomsh...
You’re too calm. Too sensible. Too shocked to behave any other way than act as if this is just a bad dream and you’re about to wake up to the mundane Monday you were supposed to.
Read more itstomshiels.substack.com/p/better-day...
Thank you, Alison.
The Irish don’t mess around when it comes to funerals. By the time Friday afternoon comes around my mum is already buried. English friends are asking when the funeral is, by the time the question has left their mouths the deed is already done.
Read more here: open.substack.com/pub/itstomsh...
First introduced by British Rail in 1994.
There’s just one week to go until our next webinar in collaboration with @everylibrary.bsky.social.
The session on Wednesday 25 June is all about ‘creating response strategies for academic libraries.’
Don’t miss out. Find out more and register here:
bit.ly/4dtwVHJ
#DefendResearch
Enjoyed this short documentary on @fotoole.bsky.social’s experience of growing up and working in Ireland. I particularly liked his optimism for the future of the island. Well worth checking out on the RTE player.
