Shelley
@shelleyxgardens.bsky.social
Irish, living in Limerick. Love family and friends, growing flowers for pollinators. Followed 100% of the day by Ruby and Oscar, the springer spaniels. History, politics, rugby and current affairs are all discussed at our dinner table!
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr... @uplift.ie
Provide Safe Shelter For All People Seeking Safety
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October 4, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr... @uplift.ie
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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored
― Anne Lamott
― Anne Lamott
September 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored
― Anne Lamott
― Anne Lamott
🌱🌱 a good week in Limerick has given dahlias and roses a bit of a second summer
September 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🌱🌱 a good week in Limerick has given dahlias and roses a bit of a second summer
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Taoiseach Micheal Martin criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his lack of empathy to the suffering in Gaza, asking: "I don't know how such a person sleeps at night."
Irish leader's critical response after Netanyahu lectured world on Gaza genocide
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September 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Taoiseach Micheal Martin criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his lack of empathy to the suffering in Gaza, asking: "I don't know how such a person sleeps at night."
🌱 Summer, specifically August
August 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
🌱 Summer, specifically August
August 2, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Ireland’s county towns: ‘There were 300 people living on this street. Now it’s 17’
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@rositaboland.bsky.social how strange that you are writing about Clonmel next week. Mum from Sligo and dad from Clonmel. They'd have been delighted x
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@rositaboland.bsky.social how strange that you are writing about Clonmel next week. Mum from Sligo and dad from Clonmel. They'd have been delighted x
Ireland’s county towns: ‘There were 300 people living on this street. Now it’s 17’
In the second in her series on county towns, Rosita Boland discovers there is a lot more to Sligo than its Yeats connection
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August 2, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Ireland’s county towns: ‘There were 300 people living on this street. Now it’s 17’
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@rositaboland.bsky.social how strange that you are writing about Clonmel next week. Mum from Sligo and dad from Clonmel. They'd have been delighted x
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
@rositaboland.bsky.social how strange that you are writing about Clonmel next week. Mum from Sligo and dad from Clonmel. They'd have been delighted x
It's been raining all day so I've brought some of the garden inside 🌱
July 31, 2025 at 9:56 PM
It's been raining all day so I've brought some of the garden inside 🌱
🌱🌱 My new dahlia ... blown away by the colour
July 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🌱🌱 My new dahlia ... blown away by the colour
July in my garden. Worth all the mulching and trips for horse manure in the rain and cold of November in County Limerick!
July 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
July in my garden. Worth all the mulching and trips for horse manure in the rain and cold of November in County Limerick!
www.facebook.com/share/p/1WHj... @rewildingire.bsky.social @treesforlife.bsky.social @irishrainforest.bsky.social Darwin's theory of evolution and survival of the fittest. Leave the Ash in place and their seedlings can come through with some immunity 🌱🌱
Redirecting...
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June 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
www.facebook.com/share/p/1WHj... @rewildingire.bsky.social @treesforlife.bsky.social @irishrainforest.bsky.social Darwin's theory of evolution and survival of the fittest. Leave the Ash in place and their seedlings can come through with some immunity 🌱🌱
Hydrangea doing really well in a half barrel and the first sweet pea🌱🌱
June 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Hydrangea doing really well in a half barrel and the first sweet pea🌱🌱
🌱 some items from the garden today! Purple French beans in flower, broccoli ready to eat, penstemon "apple blossom", Rosa Sexy Rexy and ... dahlias!
June 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🌱 some items from the garden today! Purple French beans in flower, broccoli ready to eat, penstemon "apple blossom", Rosa Sexy Rexy and ... dahlias!
Bought this rose as a "hospital case" bare root in Mr Price for €1.99 last April - bred from the famous Peace rose, which were everywhere in the 50s and 60s before they went out of fashion. Peace had a glorious scent ..... and so has this little rose. But sadly I don't know it's name🌱🌱
June 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Bought this rose as a "hospital case" bare root in Mr Price for €1.99 last April - bred from the famous Peace rose, which were everywhere in the 50s and 60s before they went out of fashion. Peace had a glorious scent ..... and so has this little rose. But sadly I don't know it's name🌱🌱
🌱 Red rosa dame de coure, pale is rosa blue moon, pink is rosa sexy rexy and orange rosa just joey. In the middle is rosa thomas á beckett which is dark pink but a late one to flower. Enjoy your weekend gardening folks!
June 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
🌱 Red rosa dame de coure, pale is rosa blue moon, pink is rosa sexy rexy and orange rosa just joey. In the middle is rosa thomas á beckett which is dark pink but a late one to flower. Enjoy your weekend gardening folks!
🌱 Rosa Just Joey. Hybrid shrub rose with an old fashioned scent. It's bred from Rosa Fragrant Cloud, hence the pretty scent
June 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
🌱 Rosa Just Joey. Hybrid shrub rose with an old fashioned scent. It's bred from Rosa Fragrant Cloud, hence the pretty scent
🌱🌱 I've never known such a long spell of sunshine. No rain for a month in County Limerick. I'll really miss that blue sky and morning coffee in the garden!
May 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
🌱🌱 I've never known such a long spell of sunshine. No rain for a month in County Limerick. I'll really miss that blue sky and morning coffee in the garden!
I'll miss seeing this blue sky! No rain for a month in Limerick, but is expected this evening
May 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I'll miss seeing this blue sky! No rain for a month in Limerick, but is expected this evening
🌱🌱 clematis Hagley Hybrid, Rosa Dame de Coure and the amazing Albertine xxx
May 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
🌱🌱 clematis Hagley Hybrid, Rosa Dame de Coure and the amazing Albertine xxx
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"When I came back to Dublin, I was court-martialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."
Brendan Behan The Hostage (1958)
Brendan Behan The Hostage (1958)
April 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"When I came back to Dublin, I was court-martialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."
Brendan Behan The Hostage (1958)
Brendan Behan The Hostage (1958)
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ME: How many pedants does it take to change a lightbulb?
PEDANT: The correct term is “replace”
PEDANT: The correct term is “replace”
April 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
ME: How many pedants does it take to change a lightbulb?
PEDANT: The correct term is “replace”
PEDANT: The correct term is “replace”
🌱 Happy Easter and have a wonderful weekend in your garden. Here's the oak tree just beside our house, looking gorgeous
April 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
🌱 Happy Easter and have a wonderful weekend in your garden. Here's the oak tree just beside our house, looking gorgeous
🌱 the appearance of the astrantias and astilbes in the shady border is a relief! You need to look closely!
April 8, 2025 at 5:49 PM
🌱 the appearance of the astrantias and astilbes in the shady border is a relief! You need to look closely!