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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

The teen is off to university and she wanted to go by bike. I offered to take them (her and her friend) but they were determined to find their own way.

Two teenaged girls cycling bicycles. One with panniers, the other with a seat bag and shoulder sack.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

@jon Found a 1990 photo of mine, abandoned in our back garden, after it was vandalised locked up outside the Sobell Sports Centre. I should have kept it. The old Never Ready tail light 🙄

Old Peugeot 5-speed bicycle, in green, with wheels missing, lying against a wall.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

For the day that's in it. Fatherhood. My daughter having just survived resuscitation following delivery. The doctor who saved her life looking on. (Leica M6TTL, Delta 3200, under processed in Ilfosol) #FathersDay #believeinfilm

Two doctors look onto a new born on the resuscitation station. One wrapping her tenderly in blankets.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

For the day that's in it, my favourite photo of my late father. Howth Head, a spontaneous after-work mid-summer father and son moment. Cherish these moments when you can. (Olympus OM-1n, HP5 at 1600, red filter, push developed in Mircrophen) #FathersDay #believeinfilm

A man walks on Howth Head staring out to sea. Long summer shadows.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

@jfparis Have fun. You'll love it. But be warned, when our girl was 10 she hated cycling in AMS; it does require confidence and woe betide anyone who delays commuters. She found it stressful. She did love getting out of AMS, this photo is literally ten minutes heading east. Enjoy.

A father and daughter cycle hand in hand on a NL cycle path.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

London folk: if you get the chance to catch #PeterGrimes at #RBO please grab it. Electric performance. The orchestration has to be experienced live to really appreciate its power. Utterly gripping. And the opera, in case you don't know it, is a message for our […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A full auditorium at the Royal Opera House

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026

So I’m looking to cycle to Harrow for a meeting and the obvious way is the A5. I wonder if they've improved cycle access on the flyover over Staples Corner, so I fire up StreetView, as you do. OMG, not only is it as cycle hostile as it's always been but as I'm […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Cyclist in lane 2 on the three lane A5 flyover

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026

@Techaltar In the same vein, UK users of Autotrader.co.uk should be aware any links to its ads will contain the postcode you searched with. As UK postcodes are very geographically specific, this is potentially a serious bit of self-doxing. Here is a random […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

An autotrader.co.uk link to one of its ads at random, showing SW1A 1AA as the postcode.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 10/12/2025

@davidrvetter.bsky.social @Nicovel0 I’m sure the villagers in question had views on oil refineries and depots when they were built.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2025

Oh this causes the pedant in me much pain. 'Modernization' spelled the American way, and ‘Programme' the European way. Aggggh.

The title block of a drawing, titled “Estates Modernization Programme”

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2025

At a social housing exhibition in Frankfurt. Discovered this social housing is a contemporary of Marino. Very apt, the friend I’m staying with was born in Marino Park Ave., and now he lives beside them.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2025

These Frankfurt shopkeepers are livid parking has been removed and the area is now dead.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2025

@MikeFromLFE I enjoyed the read, thanks. It brought back memories of teenaged me (behind the camera) and my mates cycling Dublin to Cork with no plans. Three-speed bikes too.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2025

@Gargron Very smooth for 1600. What did you develop it in? This was HP5 developed in Ilford Microphen for 20 mins. Much more grain.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 18/12/2024

@jon I like it, but I wouldn’t want to stumble against this.

View of railway carriage with glazed dividers between seating rows, the leading edge of which is unprotected glass.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 22/11/2024

Another day, another motoring crash in #RegentsPark This is a regular occurrence now but Iain Duncan Smith still prattles on about #BloodyCyclists

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 20/11/2024

@WilliamNB @auschwitzmuseum Same here. I was one of the first followers. I have made a pilgrimage to Auschwitz with a war time Leica (Ernst Leitz did some great Schindler-like work protecting his employees). I can’t stand by and watch genocide.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2024

#mastodaoine #cycling Our parents and grandparents were obviously made of stronger stuff. Hills, rain and wind didn't stop them getting around Dublin by bike. I’m old enough to remember almost my entire primary and secondary school cohorts cycled to school. The weather was no better then.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2024

‘We are not Amsterdam.’ We hear this regularly, particularly about cycling in Dublin: too wet; too windy; too hilly. Yet….

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