Science matters

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (2021) Amanda Montell [R by Bigpurplehatguy] whom we've met "Wordslut" before.

I was in Kilkenny's spanking new library filling in time before a visit to the dentist.

It was a rather special weekend because The Boy, our firstborn Sun & Air, carved time from his busy working / parenting schedule to come on his ownio to visit his agéd parents.

The Vagabond and The Princess: Paddy Leigh Fermor in Romania (2017) by Alan Ogden Q.

For months and months, I've had a book lurk unread in my Borrowbox reading list.

Whoa!

I am a fan of Sean "Mindscape" Carroll.

We were at a funeral last Sat: the penultimate survivor of the previous generation.

For reasons explained in the second half of this post, I entered a rabbit-hole about Irish roads and their numbers.

1st of September each year since 2015 [2021 -- 2022 -- 2023 -- 2024 -- 2025] Met Éireann [RTE], Met Office UK [BBC] and Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut [KNMI] go handen over de oceaan to name the coming Winter's storms together.

I was in "Ireland's Greyest town" New Ross last Thursday, shopping in Aldi.

Three weeks ago, I was obsessing about the rain [lack of] and how disconcertingly crisp was the yard after a no-rain July.

M'correspondent G sent me a link from the Kilkenny People about a free bus to the mountains running on Sundays this Summer.

In March this year, I wrote about failing to track and borrow the only copy on the books of a title in the Irish public library system.

'Twas on a Friday morning The painter made a start With undercoats and overcoats he painted every part Every nook and every cranny But I found when he was gone He'd painted over the gas tap and I couldn't turn it on!

Colm O'Regan grew up on a farm but went to school in Cork City where he had to endure slaggin' about wellies and silage from wannabee urban corner-boys.

A good part of my failure to cull the too many books we own is the thought that some forgotten classic will go straight to pulp if I donate it to a charity shop.

Not last Winter, the one before, we took a slap and a buffet from sequential named storms.

It takes a village to launch an author!

As we get older our [not your] adult children are getting increasingly cross about The Clutter.

This summer is really coming on for The End Of Days.

In 1999, I was the Irish Node [director and sole-employee] of a European academic quango.

We last met Róisín Normanly BC Before Coronarama when she scooped and classified some 000s of beetles out of ponds as an undergraduate.

“Mr.

We have a polytunnel.

Back in my YouTube days [ie before I went cold YTurkey in Jan 2026], I went on a sub-jag watching, with fascinated horror, Adam "Beard Meats Food" Moran engaged in gluttonous food challenges usually against the clock.

I was at this gaahden paahty in England with a mission.

The great Euro currency project is 25 years old and Der Mann has decided we need a new design on the banknotes.

When I was a teenager, I spent a tiny bit of time at sea on a working ship.

Third weekend in July, I was over in England for a Significant Anniversary.

About 40 years ago, I was invited to upskill myself in the white-coat, real-science lab across the corridor from my office.

Born within the slipstream of our father’s and mother’s lives, we follow involuntarily in their wake.