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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Elderflower cordial season is upon us.

Clockwise from top: a bag of elderflower heads, a shallow blue bowl of peeled lemons, a sliced lemon on a pink chopping board, a small bowl of lemon peel.

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

He really needs better staff. Or even just staff who like him.

Screenshot of a portrait of Leo XIII with his dates of birth (2 March 1810) and death (20 July 1903).

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I’m feeling optimistic about this.

Still from the film The Sting showing a card game in progress with Paul Newman (dealer) in a white vest and braces and he’s all shoulders and forearms and look you’ll just have to imagine the other four characters around the table because I need a little lie down now because I’d forgotten how stunning Paul Newman was.

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I don’t think we can be friends.

A Christmas tree, hung with baubles, standing against a cream-coloured wall and a stone wall.

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

One 60 something here 😳. I love the plate. Can I ask where it came from?

Sofa with blanket and cushion, coffee table with snacks, wine, and a screen showing the opening of the Toy Show.

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Got my limited edition #Lisacul 2026 calendar. Now I’ll be able to see what I’m doing next year!

2026 Calendar cover with three images: 1. saturated red flowers in a hedgerow; 2. a gravel path and bench viewed through waving grass; 3. a village sign for Lisacul with a stone planter below.

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

G’wan. Make the bed. I dare you.

Black cat, curled up against a white, crumpled, duvet. Disarrayed pillows to the side. The cat is glaring at the camera (or, more likely, at the photographer), the jade green glare the only thing clearly discernible in his black coat.

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Using one photo already on your phone, what will the 2pm EST announcement be?

“Respect my trans homies or I’m gonna identify as a fuckin’ problem”

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Sometimes you just feel like going old school. Lettuce, tomato, potato, and cold tongue. #SaladyTea

Yellow plate with green butterhead lettuce, yellow salad potatoes, cold tongue, slices of red beef tomato. Dijon mustard and mayonnaise dotted around.

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Oh. Is Starmer’s spokesman not on the payroll then? Or speaking out of turn (while in dire need of some history and geography lesson s)?

Post from Adam Bienkov dated 18 August ‘Kier Starmer’s spokesman asked about author Sally Rooney’s plans to donate her royalties to Palestine Avtion, says that supporting the group is a terrorist offence and “obviously the police will implement the law”’

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Ummm. Though I suppose therapy is confession with feedback instead of penance.

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Cato is FEWMIN. And TRAGICALLY disappointed in me. (I fed the OTHER cat and the crunching of kibble can be heard from the kitchen.)

A marmalade cat, wearing quite the tragic expression, while stretched on the dining room table. The pot of hand cream is just there because I haven’t put it away yet.

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

These lilies are in the back garden. Their scent carries to the front garden.

Two yellow flowered lilies in a raised bed.

A woman’s hand next to a lily flower for scale. The flower head is bigger.

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Pomegranate seeds, toasted pine nuts. Put on plate in that order, vinegaret to taste (I use raspberry vinegar). Pretty, tasty, and five minutes.

Goat’s cheese and pomegranate salad as described in the posts. (I forgot the pine nuts hashtag shopping fail)

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I have NO IDEA what you’re talking about

Two pairs of glasses on a porcelain candlestick.

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Fig tree? They can grow in pots, though they prefer outdoors

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

@thebhp.bsky.social The posh fold-away bed (on the right). There’s a better example at the Famine Museum of what the less well-off had (flat to the floor, no drawers, rough planks) but I can’t bully google into finding me a picture (it’s happy to show me bougie bed dressing though 🤷🏻‍♀️)

Image from National Museum Collins Barracks with four pieces of “bedroom” furniture: a wooden rush-back and -seat chair, a semi- enclosed bed with straw pallet mattress, a willow child’s cot with rockers, a box bed (honestly), that unfolds to hold a mattress, stored in the top of the unit, and, when folded for daytime, holds the linen and cushions.

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Um. Do we have him on a time share?

Yu Ming, a white and black cat, sleeping on a table runner and being unreasonably cute.

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Made redcurrant jelly. Just need some lamb and some rosemary now.

A kilner jar of redcurrant jelly on a wooden counter top.

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

I wish Americans would read their founding documents. Slavery was and *is* allowed under the US constitution.

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

And I had a boiled egg (for breakfast)

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Least I could do. The book originated from your part of the world. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I think it’s one of the finches.

Pages 278 and 279 the Hamlin Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe describing the characteristics of finches and with drawings of each one.

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Gardening brings its own rewards.

A glass topped garden table with two pairs of secateurs, a pair of gardening gloves, and a margarita. In the background a white hydrangea, a rose bush, a sambuca nigra, and various geraniums.

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Happy birthday. This is Blue. Blue is NOT about to start cleaning his tummy, so upsetting the delicate balance he has achieved by perching on the back of the dining chair and the dining table. NO scratches will be left on the table, and his owner WILL NOT snort tea out of her nose.

Blue, a large and fluffy Irish farm cat, lying on his back across a chair back and a table, back legs akimbo, while cleaning his fur. On the table is a small tablecloth, some chopping boards, and a mug of tea.

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Big shout out to whoever dropped this off at the bottom of my driveway in #Lisacul. You obviously know I’m a bit lazy about taking my bin in. But let me tell you what I know about you. 1. You’re even lazier than I am. 2. You have access to a car.

Black plastic bin bag full of cans, plastic bottles, and glass bottles.

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Non-religious Irish. So there’s an Easter Egg hunt (with age appropriate clues). But, in the past, there was just OUTRAGEOUSLY spoiling the First Great Niece. (One of my earliest sensory memories is the taste of that sugar icing)

Old photograph (early 1960s) of a toddler ferociously concentrating on extracting a heavily decorated Easter egg from its wrapping.

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

The Village puts on a play every year and it’s the best, and most exhausting, thing I do here. With less than a week to go, I basically running on chocolate, tea, and ibuprofen and loving every minute.

Poster for the Village Play with a very 50s-esque graphic of two men fighting, with a woman between them. Text reads: “Love Thy Neighbour Fri 25th Sat 26th April. Lisacul Community Centre. It’s almost here so make sure you have your tickets. Available from Imelda Towey Ballaghaderreen. Lisacul Resource Centre from Tuesday.

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

When the local shop has cream cheese and a neighbour has an excess of wild garlic. Well, it would be a sin not to.

Cream cheese and wild garlic on two halves of a baguette, sitting on a bright yellow pottery plate.

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

On clear nights you can’t see the constellations for the stars. Orion is the only one I can confidently identify, the others I’ve suggested in the alt text are guesses.

View to the Northwest. The three stars in a gently curved row are Orion’s Belt.

View to the West. I *think* the Little Bear (ursa minor) is in the centre.

View overhead. I *think* the Great Bear (ursa major) is in there.

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Two things are preventing me from working today.

Patches, a white cat with splotches of black and brown (and damaged ears from when he was a street cat) lying on my chest.

Cato, a marmalade cat, sleeping on an upright pine chair, in front of the computer which is sitting on a small wooden desk.

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

The Revenue won’t contact you by text. If this number contacts you, BLOCK IT.

Screen shot of a Text number from +353 (86) 386 1750

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Why I never go back to bed in the morning.

An unmade bed, one side of the covers tossed back. Three cats are on the bed: a ginger, his head turned away but his ears on high alert; a white cat with black splotches, his head half turned to the camera in bored inquiry; a tuxedo, green eyes staring a challenge at the camera. Through the rain-splashed window behind the bed, a Guinea fowl observes.

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

How is this still alive? I got it before Christmas.

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Oh lovely. CinqNiece (a bookseller) made some badges for book lovers and sent two over for the Last Night brides.

Two badges. One with a person reading and “A plot to be desired”, the other depicting an over flowing bookcase with “No shelf control”.

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

And now I have to watch it again. For reasons.

Keanu Reeves and Denzel Washington in costume for Much Ado About Nothing.

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Tell us what happens tomorrow.

A tabby cat (an exceptionally handsome tabby cat) looking straight at the the viewer. He is JUDGING you.

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Cinquecento @cinquecento.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

News from The Village. Fancy a FREE coffee and freshly baked scone (or flapjack or cake)? Coffee Connect is back on the second Friday of the month. F45VY24 (I’ve come off Twitter and Facebook so I’d appreciate a share from anyone in NW Roscommon. GRMA)