IrishBookBundle
@irishbookbundle.bsky.social
Bookshelves in Canada, heart in Ireland. Also art, embroidery, travel, languages and social history. Trying to avoid politics, but…
Going to be funny when froglet is a towering 14 year old. I tried to call my daughter owlet for a while, but it didn’t take (and her little brother an Eaglet was even more fleeting).
December 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Going to be funny when froglet is a towering 14 year old. I tried to call my daughter owlet for a while, but it didn’t take (and her little brother an Eaglet was even more fleeting).
Oh surely this is just bait for @ifbookspod.bsky.social and not a real thing people buy
December 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Oh surely this is just bait for @ifbookspod.bsky.social and not a real thing people buy
Frenglish/Franglais is amazing. Bilingual teens in Ottawa and Gatineau are amazing. Three switches between language per sentence.
December 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Frenglish/Franglais is amazing. Bilingual teens in Ottawa and Gatineau are amazing. Three switches between language per sentence.
Oh no. Infinite ways this could go wrong.
December 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Oh no. Infinite ways this could go wrong.
Had no idea my uni roommate was bilingual until I walked in one day and she was chattering to her Memere on the phone about ‘le multivitamin’.
December 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Had no idea my uni roommate was bilingual until I walked in one day and she was chattering to her Memere on the phone about ‘le multivitamin’.
Well I do now….
December 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Well I do now….
Like you could see the sense of his mortality dawn in his eyes as a result of his (gross, dumb) attempts to hit on a baby when he’d just meant to compliment a fuzzy polar bear coat.
December 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Like you could see the sense of his mortality dawn in his eyes as a result of his (gross, dumb) attempts to hit on a baby when he’d just meant to compliment a fuzzy polar bear coat.
Best story ever was when 1) an elderly man complimented my baby son and 2) we told him nicely she was a girl (think he asked the name or we wouldn’t have bothered). 3) he ‘joked’ about asking her out in 20 years then 4) realized that he was already in his 80s and wouldn’t be around.
December 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Best story ever was when 1) an elderly man complimented my baby son and 2) we told him nicely she was a girl (think he asked the name or we wouldn’t have bothered). 3) he ‘joked’ about asking her out in 20 years then 4) realized that he was already in his 80s and wouldn’t be around.
My grandmother sure wouldn’t have propped a framed painting directly above the stove, that’s for sure. In any era.
November 30, 2025 at 11:55 PM
My grandmother sure wouldn’t have propped a framed painting directly above the stove, that’s for sure. In any era.
This is so lovely!
November 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
This is so lovely!
I love names!
Torsten
Tristan
Caspar
Silas
Jonah
Or just Peter. No one is named Peter in this generation, and it’s a solid name. Also Martin.
Torsten
Tristan
Caspar
Silas
Jonah
Or just Peter. No one is named Peter in this generation, and it’s a solid name. Also Martin.
November 29, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I love names!
Torsten
Tristan
Caspar
Silas
Jonah
Or just Peter. No one is named Peter in this generation, and it’s a solid name. Also Martin.
Torsten
Tristan
Caspar
Silas
Jonah
Or just Peter. No one is named Peter in this generation, and it’s a solid name. Also Martin.
I hate the flower one where she uses her phone to decide which flowers
Go with hydeangeas. All of them! And ask the person selling you the flowers.
Go with hydeangeas. All of them! And ask the person selling you the flowers.
November 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I hate the flower one where she uses her phone to decide which flowers
Go with hydeangeas. All of them! And ask the person selling you the flowers.
Go with hydeangeas. All of them! And ask the person selling you the flowers.
We had a group costume fall apart because of group dynamics (grade 4). Luckily before I bought a Mira wig. Instead my kid repurposed her Hermione costume into a schoolgirl vampire.
October 31, 2025 at 10:40 PM
We had a group costume fall apart because of group dynamics (grade 4). Luckily before I bought a Mira wig. Instead my kid repurposed her Hermione costume into a schoolgirl vampire.
Damn, hadn’t seen that one before. Thanks!
October 31, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Damn, hadn’t seen that one before. Thanks!
Briefly did it, it’s extremely hard with watercolour paints and sweaty kids. Also do not have open ended requests, just stick to classics (pokeball, stars, tiger face etc).
October 31, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Briefly did it, it’s extremely hard with watercolour paints and sweaty kids. Also do not have open ended requests, just stick to classics (pokeball, stars, tiger face etc).
Yes, tv before bed is cuddling time with mommy. Doesn’t count. Even if we’re now watching kids reality cooking competitions instead of bluey.
October 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Yes, tv before bed is cuddling time with mommy. Doesn’t count. Even if we’re now watching kids reality cooking competitions instead of bluey.
And you don’t think they’ll really say Ah Goo ‘cause that’s in cartoons but they really do! Some babies also really say waaah exactly like that and not just wails.
October 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
And you don’t think they’ll really say Ah Goo ‘cause that’s in cartoons but they really do! Some babies also really say waaah exactly like that and not just wails.
Wow, impressive kid!
October 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Wow, impressive kid!
“Salnsbury’s”???!
September 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
“Salnsbury’s”???!
Oh of course!!
September 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Oh of course!!
My city used to do an annual Touch a Truck where they filled a shopping centre parking lot with construction trucks and an ambulance or fire truck and kids could sit in them. It was the best! The ambulance guys would show off their gear too.
September 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
My city used to do an annual Touch a Truck where they filled a shopping centre parking lot with construction trucks and an ambulance or fire truck and kids could sit in them. It was the best! The ambulance guys would show off their gear too.
I got 7, am I toxic or 45 with young kids? Answers on a postcard,
September 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I got 7, am I toxic or 45 with young kids? Answers on a postcard,
Little kids LOVE to help big kids!
September 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Little kids LOVE to help big kids!