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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 12h

Nice #Goldwing. It's a classic. Mine is a 2024 🖖

Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 19h

Good morning from Holly and me out for our walk this morning. I'm WFH today as I've a hospital appointment later. It's a check up following my hip and knee injections a few weeks ago. In other news, my Honda GL 1800 is ready: new tyres and a service 😊 Have a lovely Monday everyone 💖

Holly a Border Collie standing on the footpath illuminated by Torchlight

Swans illuminated by Torchlight on the River Liffey

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It's what Sunday afternoons were made for...

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If you want to know how they did it, read this 👇

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Good morning from Holly and me out for our walk this morning. Dawn was spectacular. The blues, pinks, oranges were amazing. It was cool, another woolly hat morning but just gorgeous. If you can, get out there and enjoy the Autumn sunshine. Have a lovely day everyone 💖

Hint of dawn through the trees overlooking the River Liffey

Holly a Border Collie standing on a bench is mucky and wet after our walk/play this morning.

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Sitting down after dinner to watch East of Eden and Holly snuggled in.

Holly a Border Collie snuggled in beside me on the sofa

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Finally sitting down this Saturday evening with some new vinyl. Loving this album from Role Model. It's a good old-fashioned album. Really refreshing. The album shifts into vintage-leaning, piano-forward, barroom-country, and yacht-rock-inspired sounds (featured on singles like "High Hopes 3000"

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Good morning. I forgot to say, if you're around I'd love your company on the wireless 🎙️📻👇 #Radio

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Good morning from Holly and me out for our walk this morning. It's dry and cool and we had fun. Have a lovely Saturday everyone 😊

10x zoom of Holly in the distance waiting for me to throw the ball

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's Friday evening, pizza and Western night. Tonight's film is "The Tall T", a classic from 1957. Based on a book by Elmore Leonard and directed by Budd Boetticher, it stars Randolph Scott and Richard Boone. #FilmSky #Movie

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Good morning from Holly and me out for our very wet walk this morning. Very dark too, but surprisingly mild. Have a lovely Friday everyone 💖

Faint glimmer of light over the River Liffey

Holly and me - a selfie. I'm wearing appropriate clothing, as is Holly 😂

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Happy 78th birthday to Jackson Browne 🖖

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#OTD in 1965, prime minister Harold Wilson officially opened what was then Britain’s tallest building – the 620ft Post Office Tower, off the Tottenham Court Road

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#OTD in 1985, PLO terrorists hijacked the Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro demanding the release of prisoners held by Israel. One of the four hundred people on board, Leon Klinghoffer who was wheel-chair bound, was shot to death as an example that they meant business.

The last photo of Leon Klinghoffer, taken on the cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985.

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sr Chief Petty Officer Miles O'Brien joins my Menagerie from Deep Space 9 this evening. His PADD shows him a problem, good job he has his interphasic coil spanner.

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Happy 75th birthday to Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof who I saw twice in concert this year. He was at Forest Fest and also supported Bon Jovi at Croke Park.

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#OTD in 1992, 250 people were killed when an El Al 747 cargo plane crashed into an apartment building near Amsterdam.

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

PIER 39 in San Francisco broke ground in August 1977 and was officially opened to the public #OTD in 1978. If you've never been, the Sea Lions are noisy! 😂

Photo of pier 39 and Sea Lions with the City in the background

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#OTD in 1957, the first earth satellite was launched into space by the Soviet Union. The craft circled the earth every 95 minutes at almost 2000 miles per hour. Sputnik 1 fell from the sky on 4th January 1958

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#OTD in 1911, the first public escalators in Britain went into service at Earl’s Court station. Look at all those inconsiderate people standing on the left 😂

Sketch of the first public escalators in Britain went into service at Earl’s Court station

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Good morning from me and Holly out for our walk this morning. It was overcast and misty but we had fun. Holly is wet after jumping into the River Liffey 😂 She's living her best life. Have a lovely Sunday everyone. I've some film reviews to write.

Early morning mist over the River Liffey

Holly a Border Collie sitting on a bench with her ball at her feet and a bigger smile on her face

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Cracking morning for a spin to work on the bike. If you're heading out this weekend, have fun and ride within your limits. #MotoSky #Honda #Radio

Denise Breen's Honda GL 1800 parked outside the studios of Kfm Radio

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Good morning from Holly and me out for our walk this cool bright morning. First morning with a woolly hat. Have a lovely Saturday everyone and if you're around I'm on the wireless from 11am to 2pm on @kfmradio.bsky.social 🎙️📻 with all the usual wittering and some good tunes too.

Holly a Border Collie standing on a bench, soaking wet

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Humphrey Bogart’s classic film noir The Maltese Falcon officially premiered in New York City #OTD in 1941. Director: John Huston, in his feature film directorial debut. Starring Cast: Humphrey Bogart as private investigator Sam Spade, alongside Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, and Sydney Greenstreet.

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We have a little visitor for the weekend. Holly has never met a little crawling human and they are both figuring each other out. Holly is the gentlest with Charlie ❤️

Holly a Border Collie and Charlie a baby human figuring each other out

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Good morning from Holly and me out for our walk this morning. It was a gorgeous dawn. We had a good long walk today as my hip and knee are brilliant after the injections a few weeks ago. Have a lovely Friday everyone 💖 Classic Border Collie side eye from Holly on the way home 😂

Holly a Border Collie sitting on a bench giving classic Border Collie side eye

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#OTD in 1994, Taoiseach Albert Reynolds waited on the tarmac at Shannon Airport to greet Russian President Boris Yeltsin. However, President Yeltsin failed to leave the plane. Yeltsin claimed his aides didn’t wake him, however, rumours were rife that he had consumed one too many vodkas.

Picture of the Irish delegation waiting for Yeltsin

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

BBC Radio 1 officially launched at 7:00 am #OTD in 1967, with Tony Blackburn hosting the first show and playing "Flowers in the Rain" by The Move as the first record.

Cover of the Radio Times announcing the start of Radio 1

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#OTD in 1659, the fictional Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked during a violent storm, according to Daniel Defoe, washing ashore on a remote island near the mouth of the Orinoco River off the Venezuelan coast

Image from the first edition of the book with a sketch of Crusoe

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In 1841, an American inventor named Samuel Slocum patented a device often considered the earliest precursor to the modern stapler. #OTD in 1841, Slocum received U.S. Patent #2,275 for his invention, officially titled a "Machine for Sticking Pins into Paper."

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Stevie Wonder released "Songs in the Key of Life" #OTD in 1976 as a double LP with a four-song bonus EP. It debuted at number one on the Billboard chart, becoming only the third album to achieve that feat, and the first by an American artist. It's one of my favourite albums.

Cover of the album Songs in the Key of Life

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The first issue of the Radio Times was published #OTD in 1923, priced at two pence (2d).

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Good morning from Holly and me out for a short walk this morning as the rain is biblical. As you can tell from the blur, Holly was keen to get going 😂 Have a lovely Sunday, stay dry and I sincerely hope that the situation on the Garvaghy Road is resolved peacefully 🖖

Holly and me out for our walk. I'm wearing a rain poncho. Holly is a blur

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A few photos of this evening's #HarvestMoon. They are a bit shaky as I took them while holding my phone. No sign of Neil Young...

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Meanwhile, #OTD in 2002, Mr Justice Fergus Flood produced his Interim Report from the Flood Tribunal (later the Mahon Tribunal) which was set up to investigate alleged payments to politicians and related planning decisions. Former Minister Ray Burke was implicated in corrupt payments and bribery.

Photo of Justice Flood heading into the Tribunal

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Nice day for a spin to work. It's overcast, about 14⁰C. I had the heated grips and heated seat on low, for the first time this Autumn. If you're heading out for a spin this weekend, enjoy. Ride safe. #MotoSky #Motorcycle #SpéirGhorm #Honda

Photo of Denise Breen's Honda GL 1800 outside Kfm's studio

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Good morning from Holly and I just back from our morning walk. It was dark as we set out but we saw a lovely sunrise. Have a lovely Saturday and if you're around I'm on the wireless from 11am to 2pm on @kfmradio.bsky.social 🎙️📻 with all the usual wittering and an Outside Broadcast too.

Early morning, just before sunrise over the River Liffey

Holly a Border Collie sitting on a bench in dim light before sunrise

Sunrise in the distance with Holly in the foreground

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Good morning from Holly and me out for our walk this morning. The rain has stopped. I see we're getting a new Miyawaki Forest. Looking forward to seeing that. Have a lovely Friday everyone 🖖

Holly a Border Collie standing beside a bench waiting on me to throw the ball

Holly a Border Collie standing on a bench

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy 80th birthday to Felicity Kendall, one of my earliest crushes. Those eyes and that mischievous grin...

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A merry Hobbit's Day to you all! Let all of The Shire eat drink and be joyful as we celebrate the birthday of two very important and very troublesome Baggins, Bilbo and Frodo. Join the hobbits of The Shire for feasting, fireworks, and firing up some pipeweed for the 111th birthday celebration.

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#OTD in 2004, Oceanic Flight 815 was LOST while en route from Sydney, Australia to Los Angeles, California. When the plane disappeared, all passengers were considered LOST including Driveshaft bassist, Charlie Pace and lottery winner, Hugo "Hurley" Reyes.

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"The Man from U.N.C.L.E." premiered on NBC-TV on September 22, 1964, starring Robert Vaughn as American agent Napoleon Solo and David McCallum as Soviet agent Illya Kuryakin They work for U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law and Enforcement) & fight the global criminal group T.H.R.U.S.H.

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Today is World Peace Day, a United Nations-sanctioned holiday observed annually on 21 September. It is dedicated to world peace, and specifically the absence of war and violence, such as might be occasioned by a temporary ceasefire in a combat zone for humanitarian aid access.

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sad to say, I'd no uniform on the day

Denise Breen sitting in the Captain's chair on the USS Discovery

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Denise Breen 🖖 @denisebreen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I know all charities are worthy of donations and our support. However it makes me a little sad to see the LGBT charity the least supported in our local Tesco. #SpéirGhorm

Picture of the blue token donation spot with a choice of 3 charities. The LGBT charity has the least donations

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