Hugo Brady Brown
@aodhbc.bsky.social
The consumption of radio, newspapers, books and bread.
Be as immoderately critical as you like, but just don't come whingeing when you're unfollowed. A memory like an elephant's.
Eastern Ireland. July '23. Still here.
Be as immoderately critical as you like, but just don't come whingeing when you're unfollowed. A memory like an elephant's.
Eastern Ireland. July '23. Still here.
I was concerned that the (expensive) Oakley frames I bought today (a sixth pair of current glasses) wouldn't stay on, but the optician told me they'll be secure because they're skull-fit.
"They were invented during the war for people who had lost their ears."
And I believed that until now.
"They were invented during the war for people who had lost their ears."
And I believed that until now.
February 11, 2026 at 7:09 PM
I was concerned that the (expensive) Oakley frames I bought today (a sixth pair of current glasses) wouldn't stay on, but the optician told me they'll be secure because they're skull-fit.
"They were invented during the war for people who had lost their ears."
And I believed that until now.
"They were invented during the war for people who had lost their ears."
And I believed that until now.
"We used to visit art museums just to find the pictures we knew from reproductions but these days we go to take selfies with them."
February 11, 2026 at 7:03 PM
"We used to visit art museums just to find the pictures we knew from reproductions but these days we go to take selfies with them."
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Wee bit of good news , yeah the bar is low but its something #spéirghorm
Sligo County Council ceases use of social media platform X following recent controversy with app
Sligo County Council has confirmed it has suspended use of the X social media platform since last Friday.
m.independent.ie
February 11, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Wee bit of good news , yeah the bar is low but its something #spéirghorm
Whenever I take a snap facing straight down, the image on the phone is rotated by 90°, so now I took a snap at right angles to the orientation I really wanted. The phone inverted the image.
It makes me tend towards believing in an Intelligent Design universe, but of a malign kind.
It makes me tend towards believing in an Intelligent Design universe, but of a malign kind.
February 11, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Whenever I take a snap facing straight down, the image on the phone is rotated by 90°, so now I took a snap at right angles to the orientation I really wanted. The phone inverted the image.
It makes me tend towards believing in an Intelligent Design universe, but of a malign kind.
It makes me tend towards believing in an Intelligent Design universe, but of a malign kind.
"You can't use cling film a second time either."
February 11, 2026 at 6:43 PM
"You can't use cling film a second time either."
"Play up! play up! and play the game!"
February 11, 2026 at 6:28 PM
"Play up! play up! and play the game!"
It will be an ultrasound tomorrow morning, so I will say hilariously "It's like being pregnant" and the doctor will say "Have you been pregnant before?" and all three of us will laugh.
In for a procedure.
In for a procedure.
February 11, 2026 at 6:22 PM
It will be an ultrasound tomorrow morning, so I will say hilariously "It's like being pregnant" and the doctor will say "Have you been pregnant before?" and all three of us will laugh.
In for a procedure.
In for a procedure.
Having at present two medicaments, one to go up the nose and the other to be instilled into the eye, and both put up in bottles of similar size, and being negligent and of poor eyesight, I have now learned that the eye is a far more sensitive organ than the nose where chemicals are concerned.
February 11, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Having at present two medicaments, one to go up the nose and the other to be instilled into the eye, and both put up in bottles of similar size, and being negligent and of poor eyesight, I have now learned that the eye is a far more sensitive organ than the nose where chemicals are concerned.
A truly gifted announcer can listen to sh*** from an in-studio turn and still make some interesting response to it. A lesser person's spirit might curdle.
February 11, 2026 at 5:53 PM
A truly gifted announcer can listen to sh*** from an in-studio turn and still make some interesting response to it. A lesser person's spirit might curdle.
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In what would surely be a GDPR breach now, the long running Thom's Dublin directory, published annually , would list each Dublin Street and resident, plus rateable valuation of their houses. Older eds very much sought after for genealogy purposes. #speirgorm
February 11, 2026 at 4:12 PM
In what would surely be a GDPR breach now, the long running Thom's Dublin directory, published annually , would list each Dublin Street and resident, plus rateable valuation of their houses. Older eds very much sought after for genealogy purposes. #speirgorm
These days, when a hilarious response to a post rises in me, I look at the existing replies; it will always have been made half a dozen times already and better.
February 11, 2026 at 5:31 PM
These days, when a hilarious response to a post rises in me, I look at the existing replies; it will always have been made half a dozen times already and better.
I'm astonished to learn from Petroc that the accordion was invented in Vienna. Such a musical city.
Accordion - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 11, 2026 at 5:25 PM
I'm astonished to learn from Petroc that the accordion was invented in Vienna. Such a musical city.
A deeper question to ask is why an elderly person was doing physical labour like this.
Fruit packer drops Keelings lawsuit after CCTV shows she slipped on grape she had been carrying
Myriam Scanderi, (57) of Marlborough Court, Dublin, had, the court was told, suffered a serious shoulder injury that might affect her for the rest of her life.
www.thejournal.ie
February 11, 2026 at 5:20 PM
A deeper question to ask is why an elderly person was doing physical labour like this.
"There have been complaints."
An editor mails.
An editor mails.
February 11, 2026 at 5:09 PM
"There have been complaints."
An editor mails.
An editor mails.
A rather interesting observation (at least to me) is how slim fifty years ago the music history and musicological books intended for the general reader were, compared to the vast books of the present day. The baroque trio sonata, for example, could be covered exhaustively in 80 pages then. Not now.
February 11, 2026 at 4:59 PM
A rather interesting observation (at least to me) is how slim fifty years ago the music history and musicological books intended for the general reader were, compared to the vast books of the present day. The baroque trio sonata, for example, could be covered exhaustively in 80 pages then. Not now.
Passionate about literature, I am.
February 11, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Passionate about literature, I am.
The temple might perhaps be the Über-folly.
February 11, 2026 at 4:32 PM
The temple might perhaps be the Über-folly.
An unusual Author field entry.
February 11, 2026 at 4:27 PM
An unusual Author field entry.
And yet, thinking back, almost always one should have known. It was as plain as a pikestaff from the start.
February 11, 2026 at 4:01 PM
And yet, thinking back, almost always one should have known. It was as plain as a pikestaff from the start.
There may well be no road through the woods. There's certainly no way back. Not from that.
February 11, 2026 at 4:00 PM
There may well be no road through the woods. There's certainly no way back. Not from that.
'People sometimes don't realise when they're on their last chance,' my kinswoman is apt to say menacingly.
I suppose it's like double secret probation.
I suppose it's like double secret probation.
February 11, 2026 at 3:57 PM
'People sometimes don't realise when they're on their last chance,' my kinswoman is apt to say menacingly.
I suppose it's like double secret probation.
I suppose it's like double secret probation.
It dawned on me only late in life that one can take a shower the night before, rather than at 05.00 if making for the 06.30 train.
February 11, 2026 at 3:51 PM
It dawned on me only late in life that one can take a shower the night before, rather than at 05.00 if making for the 06.30 train.
Lord Redwood of Wokingham was not called upon to sing this time.
John Redwood entered the House of Lords yesterday
A long-standing local politician has entered the House of Lords
www.bracknellnews.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Lord Redwood of Wokingham was not called upon to sing this time.
"Have you been eating asparagus recently?" the hospital doctor asked this morning.
"Asparagus?" I said. ("In this economy?" I said inwardly.)
"It could be ketones," she said. "Come in again tomorrow morning early - fasting - and we'll look at you."
I wish I could run to asparagus.
"Asparagus?" I said. ("In this economy?" I said inwardly.)
"It could be ketones," she said. "Come in again tomorrow morning early - fasting - and we'll look at you."
I wish I could run to asparagus.
February 11, 2026 at 3:38 PM
"Have you been eating asparagus recently?" the hospital doctor asked this morning.
"Asparagus?" I said. ("In this economy?" I said inwardly.)
"It could be ketones," she said. "Come in again tomorrow morning early - fasting - and we'll look at you."
I wish I could run to asparagus.
"Asparagus?" I said. ("In this economy?" I said inwardly.)
"It could be ketones," she said. "Come in again tomorrow morning early - fasting - and we'll look at you."
I wish I could run to asparagus.
I suppose in the pre-plastic age bathrooms and kitchens were hazard zones for broken glass and earthenware. Every potion and shampoo and emollient would have been put up in glass bottles.
February 11, 2026 at 3:35 PM
I suppose in the pre-plastic age bathrooms and kitchens were hazard zones for broken glass and earthenware. Every potion and shampoo and emollient would have been put up in glass bottles.