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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

interesting to see Irish research about who we trust in communication on #circulareconomy seems Ireland still trusts - friends & famlies - local communities - scientists and educators specific to this research BUT this is not typical communication #trust patterns in 2026

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

all in all I might up my 6/10 day to 8/10 with that sunset nice one the colours were spectacular hope wherever you are in the world, you are safe, not suffering bombing or threat of death nor genocide nor war & you got to enjoy the sunset

sunset 19 September 2026
silhouettes of bronze fennel seed umbelles, birch trees in the foreground
a polytunnel highlighted a tree line

the background is light blue to orange, yellow, peach to tangerine, dusky grey to candy floss pink clouds texture and contrast grey blue setting sun skies

image taken by Roisin Markham in her garden, infectious joy of such beauty in nature. Part of Roisins focus on art and ecology.

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I also brought a pair of socks that I mend there is nothing particularly special about them except I like them and want to wear them longer they make me smile when they come out of the washing machine and laundry basket yeah I’m invested in them

Heel of a sock darned in weaving pattern, blue wool on orange and yellow sock

Roisin Markham on teaching local kids to stitch and darn as away of care & repair, keeping clothes in circulation longer - it’s good for our pocket and the planet.

Toe of a sock darned in weaving pattern, yellow embroidery thread on pink toe section.

Roisin Markham on teaching local kids to stitch and darn as away of care & repair, keeping clothes in circulation longer - it’s good for our pocket and the planet.

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

what did I learn last night by trying to teach 27 kids all at once how to stitch 1. slow down 2. do less 3. have fun, it won’t be perfect what’s the biggest thing those kids took away? clothes are worth mending 30yr Inis Meáin cardigan speaks volumes about quality of clothes story in alt text

cardigan purchased c. 1995 from Inis Meáin Knitting Company is one of the warmest items of clothing I own, it had become very worn at elbows, armpits, forearms, shoulder seams. It’s the most expensive item of clothing I’ve ever bought or owned. I love this red and orange cashmere, merino, alpaca blended mix it’s soft and toasty warm.

Imagine in this day of fast fashion I bout something in my mid 20’s that I still own and love to wear.

The quality of that one item of clothing speakers for itself.

So yes it was worth mendin. I agonised of how to mend it and did nt wear it for a year or two. This year I just started with simple darning stitch work, rebuilding and patching the seams, holes and worn out pieces. Now it’s mended and ready for winter wearing.

The image shows a shoulder seam with visible mending.
Roisin Markham on teaching local kids to stitch and darn as away of care & repair, keeping clothes in circulation longer - it’s good for our pocket and the planet.

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Current desk view refreshingly cold

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

TASC new report on youth unemployment and youth guarantee in Ireland makes for sobering reading done in partnership with NYCI what I’m paying attention to specifically *see alt text for link and text

screenshot containing highlights of the TASC NYCI report

https://www.tasc.ie/publications/youth-unemployment-and-the-youth-guarantee-in-ireland-1/

The proportion of working young people living with their parents increased from 27% to 40% between 2017 and 2022

In 2023, 33% of young people in Ireland reported feeling socially excluded, the highest rate in the EU

Some 61% of young people said they were planning or wished to move to another country within three years

Emigration by Irish citizens increased from around 13,000 annually before the financial crisis to 35,000 in 2025

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

forgot to put the bins out on balance the sky treated me to this spectacle so it’s already a good day

sea and sunrise with deep orange and yellow reflected off sea and dramatic sky
dark clouds accentuated before a light blue sky
sun centre in the image has just come over the horizon

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

the art painscale was more relatable for me + I had significant tolerance for pain

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

it took me all day to get to the sea rainbows in the sky on the way down to Cahore swim was good saw a family big fish jump out of the water near the shore as I was drying off the sea was beautiful I swam straight out of my depth to the middle bouy glimmers of jade patterns of cloudy skies

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

why I think we need a so what button pause before we post read my latest blog post about this speculative design provocation to make the internet better

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

the other thing in the exhibition I loved was the photos, video and artefacts this protest song booklet for .60p resonated as part of SINGING FOR CHANGE I’d made a zine of Protest songs for Palestine marches in Dublin

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

in the Sky and the ground pub the back stairs has a bunch of Carnsore Point Antti-Nucelar Festival posters that I love this is one from 1986 not in the exhibition and shows that there was a legacy cultural aspect to the protests

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Memory of a Free Festival looks back at the Anti-Nuclear protest in Carnsore Point that began in 1979 and ran for several years the back wall has posters from across the years ‘79-81 amazing legacy of protest prints, posters & graphic design this one could defo do with an update

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

ok I think I’ve solved it… we just install this button across all social media #sowhat By clicking SO WHAT, you affirm that your content adds value, is thougntful, ana the internet is better for it. MAKE THE INTERNET BETTER.

Publish to the internet?

a big red button to be installed across all social media reading

SO WHAT?
click to continue

By clicking SO WHAT,
you affirm that your content adds value, is thougntful, and the internet is better for it.

MAKE THE INTERNET BETTER.

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

fine morning early tunnel pruning tomatoes and clearing edges have lots of reading to do today so listened & worked kinda listening to the radio but levelled up research & strategy

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I saw this book shop display in a children’s shop - selling clothes, toys and books loved that it was such a featured display discussed it with that the owner which agreed it was a wonderfully refreshing to see

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

sure I am planning to be somewhere here after my last meeting of the week at 12 but I will have my phone 🤣

South Beach Cahore, Co. Wexford Summer 2026 photo taken by Roisin Markham

blue sky white clouds across it
sea to the horizon and a large sandy beach in the foreground and for half the image

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

we went for a spin to Monageer near Enniscorthy because a friend has worked on a thatch up there she told us it was obvious and we’d see it driving around not the village and oh wow look at this beauty it’s extrodinary #thatch #tradition #thatchedroof #speorgorm

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

went attending to drought stressed trees I hope this is enough rain for them a cm in a bucket indicated perhaps not merlin shows me the subtle bird songs of linnets, coal tits, blackcaps + blue tits our day has started with a sons hug in the garden beside courgettes, pumpkins, lettuce & borage

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

yesterday heaving with insect we stood watching the tall bronze fennel a biodiversity magnate for pollinators this one stands at 7 foot in the gravel we don’t know what it survives on it thrives their the air is heavy with its scent hundreds of seedlings below it

umbels of bronze fennel with its small yellow flowers and dew drops on its stalks

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

also after a month of not sharing anything I’ve written and am sharing a kind of visual story @ museums, cultural & curated artefacts: Shadow of what lived before but is no more Scotland edition no AI was used, original images & writing roisinmarkham.com/2026/08/03/s...

a selection of photos taken in Perth Museum, Scotland by Roisin Markham where she explores the shadows created by the artefacts as much as the museum curators artefacts themselves. See the visual story and read here original writing blog about:

Shadow of what lived before but is no more

https://roisinmarkham.com/2026/08/03/shadows-of-things-museums-and-artefacts-scotland-edition/

Shadows creating intriguing geometric patterns at Perth Museum in Scotland.
Photograph by Roisin Markham July 2026.

Read more about - Shadow of what lived before but is no more https://roisinmarkham.com/2026/08/03/shadows-of-things-museums-and-artefacts-scotland-edition/

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

driving back the N25 fire burning on the Comeraghs Mahon Falls is going to look a lot different you can’t even see it from Coumshingaun Lake side it’s just smoke

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

even the bees think our bronze fennel is fabulous

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

it’s a stunning one I did not buy one but have noticed it in several places it’s that dark foliage too

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

before I left the library I browsed some local leaflets and magazines. The birdwatch Ireland one had lots of good stuff in it, it could have been the NPW one but lookielookie what I came across an article featuring Ciaran @gardeningwell.ie book which is a very lovely read #librarybathing

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

this poem caught my attention from FRANK O'HARA Why I Am Not a Painter and other poems it reminded me of a conversation with a poet artist friend the day before the book cover is very like on that’s on my booklist and can never find #librarybathing

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

the book I choose to sit with had a wonderful note on translation Oak, Life as a Tree by Laurent Tillon, 2025 is a very lovely book Translation by Jessica Moore, where she writes “Language deeply influences the ways we relate to the beings around us.” she mentions Robin Wall Kimmerer 💚

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

it was love to see Anja Murray’s book in the nature/science section we’d bumped into each other randomly at an EV charge point in Cork a week or so ago and had a catch up chat I was down @ the Rí Rá Mná live podcast for Kinsale Arts Week because they were interviewing Gilly McArthur

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I looked at the economics section a rather odd array of books a mix of neoliberalism, capitalism, green washing and a sprinkle just a light sprinkle of new thinking #librarybathing

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I did notice some specific books like this one that I gasped at the title published in 2025 ‘Great Irish Wives’ how is this still a thing in 2026 to be known as ‘woman of a man’ rather then a woman in your own right of its time I get it possibly it can be argued for but also 🤬

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

in literature and criticism a few books caught my eye one in particular because it was relevant to a big piece of mediation work I’ve just completed with a client but in general very much about my work & perspective with clients communication & “What else is possible?" lots of men published

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

while forest bathing is among trees library bathing* is among books which we make out of trees neither are silent spaces but both offer a kind space to be undisturbed I really enjoyed the civic third space and no pressure to buy 😂 or borrow a book I’d not been in a library for years

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

yesterday I went library bathing* I picked a random book to read I sat quietly dipping between chapters of a 200 year old oak written by a forest ecologist that’s known the tree since childhood not quiet, the library the books not new I needed a pause point *this maybe a new term I made up 🧵

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

😂 yeah I knew that was your next question in this particular shade I would suspect there is more green then blue in the mix it we look at the crossing cover spectrum or if you were to mix the colour yourself(ceramics a a bit different as you are also dealing with heat)

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

seeing more common blues in the garden this year a very lovely thing www.irishbutterflies.com/common_blue_... it’s also difficult to take photos of butterflies in this one ai attempt to show the beautiful patterned underwing

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

mesmerising sunset I’ve pulled in to watch it near Oulart Hill

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

just got really really disappointing news drew my response

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

on the train to Dublin, still no one pays any attention to the vernacular 1891 architectural heritage in Gorey railway station fair enough it is Monday morning

Gorey Railway Station, enclosed waiting room vernacular architectural heritage.

photo Roisin Markham June 2026

Gorey Railway Station, Station Masters control tower, vernacular architectural heritage dated 1891

photo Roisin Markham April 2023

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

crazy cloud just hanging celebrating being a cloud nice mellow sunrise but it cold very cold, could do with gloves on cold

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

yes Marc that seems very logical this graphic may back it up also from the rather excellent Ceara Book of Leaves podcast in early 2024 I also think we should just make trim tidied up lawns uncool like deeply uncool

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

me neither imagine if we could flip them in our lifetime?

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

scam or legit? bank holiday Monday text? gov.ie would most likely have a .ie not .com but for busy cognitively over loaded resource scarce brains this would be a tempting and easy click I’d say scam you? my phone number seems to be active on a list somewhere

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I’m meant to be turning my compost bin… I’ve nearly used all of current bin about to unload the hot composter and reload it with green & brown materials my system is now 1. kitchen veg/fruit waste 2. egg cartons 3. sticks, twigs, grass stalks and rushes from @ the garden

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

about an hour later I hear this tiny bird sound managed to get a photo so I could identify it after I realised it thank you merlin app a green finch brilliant flashes of yellow on wing and tail feathers its flight is very beautiful too

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I got up early to play tomatoes in the polytunnel I did not get to over the weekend… is a furnace in there… send ice and cold drinks have small bits of work to do today and some research aim working through for a meeting Wednesday but mostly I have today off

Sea pink flowers in bottom right corner against a wild scrub and grass bank at Cahore Point County Wexford 25 May 2026 Photo credit: Roisin Markham

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

thanks for the clarification I did not know that here’s a thank you pic of grasses and trees

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Roisin Markham @creativedynamix.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

feck that was a lot in a day verdict in sunrise was mid then I was cracking the whip on work 7:30-6:40 think I took lunch at 2:30 realised I’ve not eaten much today or moved much now doing family food shopping whose life is this?

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