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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 4h

Daughter has interview for a placement with BAe. She has reservations. I have advised her to channel Arlo Guthrie. "I want to kill. I mean, I wanna kill. I wanna see blood & gore & guts & veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL." Sage paternal advice.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 21h

Bench oiled for winter. Tomorrow is creosote day.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This popped up on FB today. Unsure which 80s comic it was from, but I now want to buy the collected edition. It is available.

80s British comic story, 'Fiends of the Eastern Front'.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I know people complain about the range and number of recycling bins, but they do have secondary uses. And, no, neither the Audi nor the Range Rover are mine. The cat is, though.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Olive update. £29.95 spent on 4.4 kg of olives. I know we've been advised to have some provisions in, but I'm not sure that whichever minister it wss meant nearly 10 lbs of olives.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Good morning! Shower, breakfast & now sitting in lobby with yet another coffee. I may not know a lot about coffee, but I know all I need to about free coffee: drink it in quantity as it is free & spend the rest of the morning shaking like a shitting dog. Not sure this dog approves of my simile.

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Dog Charlie Meme: Disappointed Stare

ALT: Dog Charlie Meme: Disappointed Stare

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Anyway. Cracking evening. Rhiannon Giddens was in good voice and the band were excellent. Now in hotel drinking Laphroaig. Will crash soon.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Justin Robinson and Rhiannon Giddens. Manchester tonight. Excellent so far.

Justin on left playing fiddle.
Rhiannon on right plating banjo.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We made it back. Chuffing road closures on the way back. Still, we were in Yorkshire and the moon was just past full: we didn't want to take any chances so stayed on the road, like Brian Glover said. Hull Old Town is interesting. In a few months it will definitely have a Lovecraftian air about it.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think the Rational Dress Society should re-form. Include men. Especially ones who want the return of cycling suits with Norfolk Jackets.

CYCLE DRESS FOR WOMEN
51 to 57.
Fashion presented a major obstacle to women in Britain who wished to cycle. Men had special cycling uniforms that did not show the dirt or restrict the movement of the limbs. Women were expected to wear their ordinary clothes and look elegant at the same time.
Women in France and America had quickly adopted a loose style of trousers for cycling. These were known as 'knickerbockers' in France and 'bloomers in America. They were comfortable to wear and did not impede movement of the legs.
In Britain, the Rational Dress Society was formed in 1881 to encourage women to wear more practical clothes for cycling and other pastimes. Its ideas on 'rational' dress were never popular with the majority of women, who believed that such outfits would attract even more scorn and ridicule.
Most women who cycled in the 1 890s wore conventional long skirts. Waists were tightly corsetted and the hem of the skirt was often weighted with lead shot to keep it in place. Instead of fashions being altered to suit the cycles, manufacturers had to make special ladies' machines with drop frames to accommodate the long skirts.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sod Pashley! This is the bike for me!

Penny farthing.
"Ordinary" made by Hillman, Herbert & Cooper
. 1884.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Found the mermaid. Am obscuring as some people may it a bit off putting. In a museum full of exhibits to with whaling, this is the oddest. I would also say that I live close to the sea, and this will disturb my dreams for quite a while.

Mermaid, Hull Maritime Musem.
Probably a monkey torso with a fish tail, but grotesque.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Am in the whaling section of Hull Maritime Museum. Whaling both fascinates and repels me. The blubber cauldron to the sprouts for many Wülferhamptons.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A small announcement. Tomorrow, I go to Hull. The Maritime Museum has reopened. It has a preserved mermaid. The Street Life Museum is there. I have never been to Hull, and am possibly unreasonably over excited. Mrs Mac has ducked out, but daughter didn't have the option. Expect photographs.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've been cleaning & burnished the kettle with Barkeepers Friend. 1. Daughter impressed, but thinks Mrs Mac won't notice as "she's far better at noticing dirty than clean." 2. My phone wants my password as I've temporarily lost my thumbprint. 3. These jobs were much more fun when I was stoned.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Right! That was decisive, btw. I am going to vacuum the house! And possibly tidy the papers.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Good morning! I came down this morning and reached the conclusion that I may have a problem. Actually, two problems: I need better storage for my squashes and I could do with a cocktail cabinet.

Crowded breakfast bar with a lot of alcohol, a toaster, cup of tea and two squashes.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

1st day of a week off. So far have been to the tip, taken daughter pyjama hunting, done a Big Shop* & put a chilli in the slow cooker. Going for a run soon. I think I need to be sedateded. *Bourbon was an item on the shopping list. I didn't put it there. This cocktail thing is getting out of hand.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Join in everyone. "50 years! We'd get less for murder."

BBC news item.
"U2 celebrate 50th anniversary the school where they formed."

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tempted to try this, but, quite frankly, I'm scared. Recipe by Kingsey Amis, which should be enough to.put most of us off.

The Normandy 1 slug calvados (2 A. oz.) 1 dose champagne cider (about 3 fi. oz. 1 dash Angostura bitters 1 level teaspoon castor sugar
As little hot water as will dissolve the sugar completely
1 apple slice Ice cubes
Put glass add
the dissolved sugar, the bitters and the calvados and stir furiously. Add ice and stir furiously. Remove ice, add chilled cider, drop in apple slice, and serve.

Note. Connoisseurs will already have sussed that this longish short drink is a translation of the orthodox champagne cock- tail, based on brandy and champagne, out of grape into apple They should also have sussed that it is substantially cheaper: calvados is a few shillings dearer than a three-star cognac, but champagne cider is a quarter the price of even the very cheapest champagne. This cocktail tends to go down rather faster than its strength warrants; I have had heads in the soup when offering it as an apéritif

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Well, theold hubris and (not quite) nemesis has hit. There I was, celebrating 7 weeks of couch to 5k without injury, and I now have a trapped nerve in my shoulder. Not sure if it will stop me running, but it is chuffing sore if I move it in the wrong way. Bugger!

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I was looking at hors d'oeuvres as I couldn't remember how to spell it (in my life, hors d'oeuvres is a packet of peanuts) and I saw this. Are they... sprouts?

Hors d'oeuvres, possibly featuring sprouts.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Good mo! Have just been to loo. I blew my nose and a nosebleed started. There were no accidents, but keeping the loo paper for both ends entirely separate was a little moe challenging than I expected.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Social class is a funny thing. I look & sound middle class. I effectively am. Dinner was a courgette, olive, sundried tomato & feta baked thing with cous cous. Yet once it had been eaten & I went to clear up, out came the slice of bread & I mopped up that fat like a starving 1953 Beano character.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm not some sort of weird middle-aged man... well, I am, but my point was that I am not obsessed with lawn care. But even I find this wanton vandalism distressing.

Hens creating a dirt bath under a swing seat because yhey are bastards.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Am now drinking Sassy calvados. My word! It is utterly brilliant. Bruised apple and dried fruit. Ding dong.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Okaaay. Tonight's family film choice is My Own Private Idaho. This will be an interesting evening. See you all later. After I'm out of yhe foetal position.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We have had monkfish for dinner. I will confess I did call it a "fucking fishy fucker" when I couldn't turn it in the frying pan, but we got through it. It was delicious. Fried in butter, then 10 mins in the oven.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Morning all. Shortly heading to the tip to get rid of a load of ivy, then a bit of food shopping. I've already changed the seal on the oven door. I'll probably see if a passing orca wants the old one. Honestly, if my life were any more exciting, Nigel Dempster would rise from the dead to cover it.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Have listened to the Fitton episode of Cabin Pressure as our tribute to Stephanie Cole who died today. Excellent actor. Will be missed.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#TotP. Have watched Prince Carming video 3 times so far and it is still hilarious.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I have been for run, helped daughter prepare dinner and I have showered. I am not 100% sure this large, succulent and very cold martini is a terribly good idea, especially since I haven't actually eaten for 7 hours, but I'm not sure I care.

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Sam Elliott Drinks in Big Lebowski

ALT: Sam Elliott Drinks in Big Lebowski

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It is chucking it down. I should go for a run. It is due to be chucking it down for the next few hours. I have decied that I will just have to get wet.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Been to Sainsbury's. Two blokes just outside the loo, which one had just come out of. I know this because he was still doing his flies up. In the middle of Sainsbury's. WHY!?

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Did anyone else lose track of the news cycle and wonder what Cliff Michelmore had to do with Ed Sheeran?

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I know people have many achievements in life, but tonight I changed the battery in a Casio f91w. And put it back together And it works. Take that all proper technical people! Yes, a NATO strap: the resin one broke, so i went for the simple option.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have seen a mis-labelled photo. It refers to someone as "Baroness First Name XYZ", but she was the wife of a baronet so should be referred to as "Lady XYZ". I feel I ought to correct this, but I don't want to appear a git. I also feel that even knowing this marks me as a git. Morning, btw.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There was an 1990s UK ostrich boom. BSE was a driver. promoters sold breeding pairs for £14k as the "meat of the future." It became pyramid scheme, crashing when supermarkets banned the meat due to animal welfare. No abbatoirs licensed to handle 100kg, aggressive, 8-foot-tall birds safely. No shit.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Good Mo! I have a parcel due. It is currently in Lutterworth. Not knowing much about Lutterworth, I looked it up. It's in Leicestershire, and the 1973 sitcom Me, Myself and Nigel Wright was set in an ostrich farm near the town. I am now very intrigued.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Mrs Mac is nostalgic for the f*gg*ts of her Midlands childhood. She is trying to source venison liver. One site has informed her that "each deer only has one liver". Again nonplussed. Either education in the matter of livers is sadly lacking or people think there is some deer Prometheus around.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Anyway, not entering this into #shitbirdphoto, but this one needed her wing clipping. Sha wasn't terribly happy about it.

Small hen having wing clipped in kitchen

Small hen, looking a bit surprised and a bit pissed off.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This has nonplussed me a little. Sir Robert Holt Leigh, Bart. 1762 to 1843.

He lived at Whitley Hall until 1811 when he moved to Hindley Hall after rebuilding it. He sought advice from his sister during the rebuilding process but neglected to plan for staircases in the three storied building.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Cackle cackle cackle! (I know: I need to clean the oven top. Chose not to do it until I'd made the jam)

Simmering pan of blackberry and apple jam.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Have made elderberry cordial. Am now making blackberry and apple jam. Unsure of when I turned into my mother.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Few jobs today. 1st is producing a shit meme saying "The Left" with a picture of something I don't like, then (this is crucial) a picture of something entirely unrelated (except I also don't like it) the label "Also the Left". 2nd. Knocking one out muttering "72 million!" until climax. Busy busy.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Saw Mitch Benn is putting on G&S Dracula. Mentioned it to daughter & who'd get the patter song. She said Van Helsing, with Jonathan as a tenor and Dracula as the bass. "I gather you've thought about this." "Quite a bit."

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sheridan Smith said her 9 to 5 was going to be camp. She wasn't lying.

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We have had this TV for about 4 months. I may have mentioned that we don't watch a lot of TV. I still have no idea how to change channels. As we have to switch from BBC2 to 1 for the proms I have had to go via the digital box. I feel so inept!

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Macanultaigh @macanultaigh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Went black berry and elderberry picking. About 2 weeks too late, but we got quite a bit. I do have a feeling that as I see really juicy ones just out of reach, it is a trick of the fairies to lure me onwards until I fall into their realm. God knows what they'd do with me.

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