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Virgin, Child, lamb: Quinten Metsys having a bit of a Leonardo moment in a Patinir landscape, 1513. Today is his day.

Stained glass artwork by English artist Tamsin Abbott. The #Fullmoon in October is known as #HuntersMoon #WomensArt

Full moon fever. Taken a few minutes ago. Image slightly cropped, but otherwise unaltered.

Now listening. Prompted by an exchange of posts with @singingconductor.bsky.social last night. #bininfluenced.

Vincent van Gogh, like many other late nineteenth century artists, was a great admirer of Japanese prints. He produced his own versions of a few of them in oils, such as his Flowering Plum Tree, based on a Hiroshige design. Flowering Plum Tree, by Vincent van Gogh. Oil on canvas, 1887.

Now listening. All the red hot Fender Rhodes action you can handle.

The hero's light sprang from his forehead, long and thick as a warrior's whetstone, long as a prow, and he clattered with rage as he wielded the shields, urging his charioteer on and raining stones on the massed army. - The Tain, Translated by Ciaran Carson #BookWormSat

There’s only one story on my timeline this evening. #speirgorm #donallunny

Dónal Lunny 🕯️ 1947 - 2026 Cuimhní cinn de Dhónail Lunny ag Fleadh na bliana seo 🤍 Chas sé 'The Wren's Nest/The Roscommon Reel' i dteannta Zoe Conway agus ba léir go raibh an lucht féachana faoi gheasa aige ✨

The great Donal Lunny, one of Irish music’s most creative and vital forces has died. May he rest in peace.

Dragged my weary self to the market and am now taking a cure built around coffee and a frankly enormous slice of carrot and orange cake. #coffeeandcakefriday

Got the flu and covid jabs yesterday. Just woke up, feeling like forty miles of bad road. Prescribing the couch, music and television for the day.

Born #Onthisday 1930 Philomena Lynott 'She was a formidable woman. She played it hard, she played it tough – because she had learned that she'd have to, to survive.' 📷with Phil hotpress.com/music/rememb...

Out of the dark, into the dawn, Thursday morning.

Just Sharing… The Orionid meteor shower formed by debris from Halley's Comet peaks overnight from Wednesday, October 21 to Thursday, October 22, 2026.

This is becoming a firm favourite.Perfect listening for a sunny Sunday.

Dublin Carol finishes its run tonight. To celebrate the success, here’s myself, Bex and Nick, channeling our” 80s electro pop trio announce comeback album” look. 📸 Aisling Conway.

Towards evening, they wound down precipices, black with forest of cypress, pine and cedar, into a glen so savage and secluded, that, if Solicitude ever had local habitation, this might have been "her place of dearest residence Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho #BookWormSat

Johann Frederick of Saxony, aka the Magnanimous, painted in 1509 at age 6 in totally fab outfit (especially the hat!) by Lucas Cranach the Elder. Whose day is today.

Friday morning and not quite the end of a busy, productive week. So busy, that I’m combining a listen to @louiseann.bsky.social Secret Handshake radio show, with a trip to the market. #coffeeandcakefriday

O whence the leaves scuttering down Easter Road, sycamore and rowan desperate as refugees, crowding against the wheels of street-side dumpsters… —Kathleen Jamie, “Autumn” from THE BONNIEST COMPANIE (Picador, 2015) #BookWormSat #poem #poetry www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kath...

From the dew-soaked hedge creeps a crawly caterpillar When the dawn begins to crack It's all part of my autumn almanac Breeze blows leaves of a musty-coloured yellow So I sweep them in my sack Yes, yes, yes, it's my autumn almanac Autumn Almanac -The Kinks #BookWormSat

I’m very much in demand for various projects at the moment, which is very gratifying. I’ve just arrived at the market and secured a slice of red velvet cake. #coffeeandcakefriday

Happy birthday to France Gall, queen of the YeYe singers.

"A bruising film that confirms Scott as one of the greats of our age." Review of Elsinore with Andrew Scott by Donald Clarke www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...

Still life, with wine, birds and dinner preparation music.

Oranges. And boxes. So simple yet so perfectly balanced by Luis Egidio Meléndez of Madrid, whose day is today.

A quick Saturday timeline cleanse.

"There is no month in the whole year in which nature wears a more beautiful appearance than in the month of August Orchards and cornfields ring with the hum of labour; trees bend beneath the thick clusters of rich fruit... A mellow softness appears to hang over the whole earth. #BookWormSat

Pop into Studio 10 Wicklow street Dublin to see a celebration of Phil Lynott his life and his music…exhibition open until Sunday #lynott #thinlizzy #dublin @studio10dublin

The Green Pumpkin, 1916 https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16046

Excellent, no punches pulled analysis.

A bit late to the market today, due to other commitments, but managed to secure a nice slice of apple sponge. #coffeeandcakefriday

MARC BOLAN ~ Born Sept. 30, 1947 ⭐Remembering Marc on his birthday. Beautiful man, beautiful spirit ~ Still making the heavens dance ... #KALMIYH 💕 🎸 youtu.be/87HKCxZxmq4 #TRex #marcbolan @fatoldanarchist.bsky.social

Jack B. Yeats

11 p.m.The sky is extraordinarily atmospheric and the moon shines into my back garden.

Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders on BBC2. That’ll do me.

Gavin Bazunu statement on withdrawing from Ireland squad Ireland only has 2 goal keepers in squad EUFA regulations require 3

Saturday evening treats.

Happy 57th Birthday to The Beatles' Abbey Road. Released on this day in 1969.

And if you go chasing rabbits And you know you're going to fall Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar Has given you the call Call Alice When she was just small —White Rabbit -Jefferson Airplane. #BookWormSat 📸. Herb Greene

After seeing a magical moon, what else would you be listening to?

By the light of a magical moon. Image slightly cropped, but otherwise unaltered.

For anyone interested in photography here’s my contact sheet from the darkroom with some of my negatives of U2 in Croke park Dublin 1987… #35mmfilm #photography #U2 #Bono #Ireland

I worked as an extra on this, so I’ll be seeing it, because it will be an excellent film and maybe I’ll pop up briefly.

That time of the week again. For those of you who didn’t grow up in God’s own city, that is a slice of gur cake, a great Dublin delicacy. #coffeeandcakefriday.

Released today 24th September 1971 T Rex "Electric Warrior". The album peaked at No1 in the UK album charts, Album cover artwork design Hipgnosis, based on a photo by 📸 Kieron Murphy #marcbolan #AlbumOfTheDay

Apples sweeten in the dark... From the late Eavan Boland, for anyone who's ever walked a suburban street on an autumn evening.