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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

At a tiny Kerry festival last month we met a friend and daughter. They said before the Bird family-run amusements at the Rose of Tralee open each year, they invite the SEN school nearby to enjoy them first. They slow down rides, quiet the music, and Mr & Mrs Bird welcome each child to the fair.

Outdoor colour photo of a tiny beachside amusement park on a cloudy, blue-sky day. There is a pink, yellow and green carousel for toddlers, and behind a green plastic palm fence a small covered boat-ride for little kids. Mountains and sea are in the far distance, and a big clouded but still blue sky.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026

oh god I just posted something even grumpier than this on my own, I'll now be uploading pictures and writing alt tags all bloody day!

colour photo of an idyllic summer scene: woman wearing shades and in blue clothes lying on a wide green laawn in the shade of a tree, holding a very happy looking black and white collie dog against her. in the background are more trees, a hill, and nearer is a white fluffy samoyed dog sit-lying on the grass looking in another direction.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

happy to oblige! this one's from a couple of days ago but the mood is consistent. (though today's gentle snores are sweet)

Colour photo of a smooth haired black and white collie, Chip, lying on a mustard yellow bedspread with an untidy chest of drawers in the background. He looks infinitely bored.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

Well my river is just down the field so I won't name it, but this morning the holly trees were dangling over a water course now in full spate. Dozens of wild bees guzzled the holly flowers' nectar. A reminder that flowers in the bridge seasons are often to be found in trees.

Colour photo of a dark green river taken from a river bank. In the foreground is a flowering holly tree, and in the background across the river is mixed scrub trees including sally. A hazy cloudly blue-ish sky behind.

Colour photo in more close up of a flowering, bright green holly tree with pale green flowers, dangling over a deep brownish green river in full spate. On the opposite bank are mixed scrub trees.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026

Far be it from me to perpetuate national stereotypes HOWEVER this is what a proper selection of potatoes looks like. Taken in a small Kerry supermarket with 2 checkouts. I counted 16 different types, sizes, and brands of spud. Which is about right.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026

anyway you might think you're busy but Milo was out protecting a very tall and seemingly healthy ash tree in our field. no die-back to be seen on it, but lots nearby so we're crossing fingers and paws this one has some genetic resistance to the virus.

colour photo of a white fluffy samoyed dog, Milo, lying happily in long grass in a field in front of a bracken and lichen covered stone wall with a very large and healthy ash tree growing up through the wall.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 28/08/2026

Started watching RTE's gorgeously filmed An Irish Atlantic Rainforest, about @irishrainforest.bsky.social As is customary in Kerry an emotionally needy collie dog was provided for each member of the audience (there's a whole other dog and three humans out of shot). www.rte.ie/player/serie...

Interior shot of a living room with a large TV in the far corner, paused on a shot of the Beara Peninsula rewilder, Eoghan Daltún, against a lush green background. In the foreground of the sitting room are two black and white collies, one walking towards the camera and the closer dog with his paws up on a human's lap and his face craning into theirs for attention. The person's face is out of shot.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026

Is it just me or does Chip have the expression and bearing of a Flemish merchant being painted with his rich array of possessions and obedient little wife? His bowl of oranges glimpsed in the portrait background is such a flex.

Colour photo, interior, of a smooth haired black and white collie dog, Chip, standing on his back legs and with his front legs resting on the lap of a woman in a bright blue hoodysitting at a wooden table. Behind them is a dresser with colourful mugs and dishes and a bowl of oranges.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026

Milo's an old boy now and has, maybe, one good leg out of four, but he loves a beach walk, a session of prolonged barking at his swimming humans, and then back to work guarding the towels and togs as they dry at home on the gate.

Colour photo of a white fluffy samoyed dog, Milo, lying on some grass by a large, dark green gate hung with a colourful zigzag towel and swimming gear, with hedges, bushes and trees in the background. His front paws are stretched out and he looks very happily at the picture taker.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026

the fellas rather liked the weekend and request it be resumed immediately.

Colour photo of a smiling white fluffy samoyed dog, Milo, grinning with his tongue hanging out as he lies on grass with a huge broadleaf tree in the near background and, far behind, a glimpse of a river, pasture, and deciduous woodland on a bright but cloudy summer day.

Colour photo of a black and white smooth-haired border collie, Chip, taken from the chest up as he sits on a rocky beach with the Atlantic in the background, a distant swimmer, and far beyond, the green Dingle peninsula and a deep blue and slightly cloudy sky.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 06/08/2026

Face of a little guy who JUST DISCOVERED blackberries grow on the side of the road and can be plucked by careful, neckering little lips.

Colour photo taken on the side of a country lane; a black and white smooth-haired collie dog, Chip, is sitting and looking into the camera as he licks his lips. To the right of him is tall rough grass with some briars in it and ripe and unripe blackberries on them. In the background is a gorse bush.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 23/07/2026

Far be it from me to perpetuate rustic stereotypes but now we're on the correct island for a spell Milo and Chip are unabashed hayseeds

Colour photo of a smiling white fluffy samoyed dog, Milo, sitting on a concrete path in a garden. He has been eating grass and has a foot-long hayseed hanging from his open mouth.

Colour photo of a rather solemn looking, black and white, smooth-haired border collie, Chip, sitting indoors on a red patterned carpet. From his closed mouth a foot-long, dry grass stalk is hanging as he makes intense eye contact with the picture taker.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 17/07/2026

the lads seem moderately pleased to be on the correct island at last.

Colour photo of a white fluffy samoyed dog, Milo, sitting on a rocky beach with a curved shoreline in the mid-ground and people with dogs, and bungalows, mountains and a blue sky in the background. Milo is sitting up and smiling at the camera.

Colour photo close-up of a black and white collie dog, Chip, sitting between the knees of the photo taker on a rocky beach with a tied up boat, hazy blue sea, mountains, and a small glimpse of a golden evening sky in the background. Chip's mouth is open, his ears back, and he looks very happy as he leans toward the camera.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 05/07/2026

Spent Pride in Piccadilly painting faces with my lovely assistant Milo Moments I'm only processing now; a teenager and their traditional Nigerian mum shyly asking about a NB stripe, 2 Chinese students amazed by the freedoms. A trans girl delighted I'd nearly run out of their colours A gift of a day

Colour photo of a whit fluffy samoyed dog, Milo, standing slightly crouched under a folding table on outdoor sloan stabs beside a water bottle and red ribbon tangled on the ground. On the table above him are plastic cups with dull brown water from cleaning paint brushes, sponges in rainbow stripes, a packet of wet wipes, and assorted striped paint boxes.

Colour photo of an outdoor scene in a church courtyard adorned in rainbow flags and banners. People milling about in summer clothes under a shade-giving tree as in the background a drag queen under a small awning DJs a dance set.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 03/07/2026

aah thank you! he will be very chuffed.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 30/06/2026

In more cheerful Piccadilly Circus-related news, Odo the baby-hating church dog was this weekend merely glowering and growling at the (actually very sweet) nearby toddler. His owner says Odo can't tell whether babies are human or animal. TBF they make weird noises and can be quite stinky.

Colour photo in close-up of a grey and white schnauzer-type dog's face resting on a church pew, glowering at the picture taker through incredibly long eye lashes, while a service leaflet lies on the bench near his nose.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 30/06/2026

Mullvad has been advertising on a dedicated structure in the middle of London's Piccadilly Circus for weeks, now. The Orwell reference hits different when you know the VPN's co-founder is funding the Swedish far-right to "re-migrate" anyone with brown skin. An Orwellian phrase if ever there was.

Colour photo of a large advertising structure in London's Piccadilly Circus on a cloudy summer day. The Advertising reads : "STOP government spyware on mobile devices, MULLVAD VPN".

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 29/06/2026

Milo is chilling under this year's enormous rhubarb (fallow year for lots of lovely crumbles in 2027) after a Gail's visit where we sat beside @kardyology.bsky.social who recognised him! we reminisced about our mutual @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com and guilt-free café days at the old place

Colour photo of a very pleased looking white fluffy samoyed dog, Milo, lying in a garden between a shaded wall and a large, flopping over rhubarb plant. An apple tree is just visible in the background and a bright green apple hangs over Milo's back.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 24/06/2026

though Milo is elderly in dog years, he has, as they say, still got it.

Colour photo of a white fluffy samoyed dog, Milo, lying on a shaded patio underneath garden chairs and table with a colourful stripey blanket lain across them to dry. In the background is a large, blooming, white agapanthus, a blue pot plant and a grey fence with sweetpea running up it.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 24/06/2026

Milo continues to believe he can style this out. I have to whoosh and shut him into our one semi-cool room as the day goes on He grumbles that his ancestors on the Siberian steppe tolerated temperatures in the high thirties. I counter that he is 12.5 yrs old; 80+ in human years. And so it goes on.

Colour photo of a white fluffy samoyed dog, Milo, smiling with his eyes closed as he lies on his favourite bit of garden gravel under a rose arch. In the background is a raised bed with fluorescent green euphorbia blooming.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 23/06/2026

Garden is looking the best it will for the rest of the year, following last night's drenching. NGL I'm definitely a 'more is more' kind of gardener NB I cut back a veeeery aggressive clematis this year and the artichoke it had been, well, choking, has roared back with no less than SIX flower heads.

Colour photo of an urban garden stacked with plants. In the foreground a dahlia'-like 2 meter tall flower in a pot and an agapanthus stand in front of an off-white brick wall which is planted with lavendar on one side and sweetpea on the other. Behind them a six-headed artichoke plant and line of japanese anemone not ye tin bloom, with clematis leaves pushing through them, and sweetpea growing up an arch just visible to the left. in the background a pale green shed and apple tree.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026

Went up north yesterday for a swim in Hampstead Heath pond and spotted this epic trolling from Camden Council at the bottom of Highgate West Hill where vast houses in the tens of millions, the odd one derelict, hold Putin's allies' £££ Great to see a council devoted to such prominent signage...

Colour photo of a small urban roundabout with large signs in the middle of it and on each junction that say "Boris Nemtsov Place". In the background a cyclist is rounding the circle and two pedestrians walk in front of a 1950s style low-rise of flats.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 17/06/2026

This scruffy little dauphin sends you love and also his sincere hope that there is no bath in his immediate future. (it's from a couple of weeks ago. there was.)

Colour photo of a very scruffy white fluffy samoyed dog, milo, sitting under a desk and looking very cagily at the photo taker.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 16/06/2026

Milo is pretty indifferent to Chip. But Chip, who had a tough start in life, has carefully studied Milo for 7 months and just recently learned - sob - how to play with toys. He never had any before. Of course, being a dog, the very next thing he learnt was how to steal Milo's ones.

Colour photo of two dogs in a garden. Milo, a white, fluffy samoyed, is in the foreground and looking happily at the photo-taker, while Chip, a black and white smooth-haired collie, plays behind him with a colourful soft toy in his mouth, about to toss it in the air.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 09/06/2026

gah! don't know if a photo will exactly help with either, but wishing you the energy of this very happy bumble bee I saw at the chelsea garden show.

Photo of a bumble bee drinking from a yellow Australian flower planted in deep ochre coloured earth with purple flowers and passersby in the background.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 06/06/2026

Favourite dog pic this week was Milo who hid under E's desk the moment he heard the bath taps go on. He innocently conveys 'I've been here all day and I <just> woke up'. A special, top-level samoyed talent. He really, really needed a good bath and brush, and now looks like a little dauphin.

Colour photo of a very grubby and dishevelled looking samoyed dog, Milo, hiding under an old wooden desk by the navy-trousered knees of the person sitting at the desk. Milo looks like he just woke up.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 01/06/2026

Chip & Milo found the weekend quite adequate, really, now it's a bit cooler and their garden is enjoyable once again.

Colour photo of two dogs - a black and white smooth-haired collie called Chip, and a white fluffy samoyed called Milo - sitting in a small and scruffy but abundant back garden. In the foreground is a metal arch with a pale pink climbing rose tumbling and blooming in large pompoms of blossoms on the left side, and on the other a smaller, apricot coloured rose and some sweetpea on the right. Between them are old clay pots with lemon verbena, and behind them are two raised beds with various greenery and some seed trays, and a green painted garden shed against a brick wall in the rear.

Close up shot of pale apricot coloured rose with double blooms growing up a metal arch, and sweetpea blossoming alongside it in white and pale pink. Beside them are leaves of japanese anemone, and behind is an empty raised bed and a grey-painted slatted fence.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 22/05/2026

Palantir's Mosley showing what nasty pieces of work he and his sinister employer truly are. I recently made this clipping from Francis Spufford's marvellous new novel, Nonesuch, on fighting fascists in WWII London - clearly an evergreen topic. Hoped for a reason to use it. Now here it is!

Photo of a line from a book which reads "... invading Belgium. The future that Mosley counted on might be experiencing a local malfunction."

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 18/05/2026

Church dog yesterday. Glorious handlebar moustache (which I now know is called a 'Hungarian Handlebar', the biggest kind), and movie star eye lashes. Wildly intolerant of babies. Willing to be fed treats and minded while his humans circulate afterwards. V. fixed views. (possible Presbyterian)

Colour photo of a pale grey and white schnauzer-type dog with a wide, cream-coloured, handlebar moustache, big brown eyes and dark, curled eyebrows close to two inches long. He is sitting on a church pew and looking calmly at the picture-taker.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 14/05/2026

Chip's world is getting wider. He's part of a pack with a kind human leader, is learning to get in and out of <other people's> car (Classic rescue dog error - we thought as he would for us it was transferrable. It was not!), and has met a man (he has big fears) he wants cuddles from. #dogsofbluesky

Photo of six dogs sitting on patchy grass in a park. In an assortment of schnauzers, terrier, doodle and lab types is - in the centre - a black and white short-haired collie dog in a bright orange harness. He is sitting up alert and looking calmly at the picture taker.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 01/05/2026

As Chip traversed the country - big hurray for the UK's hard won public paths system and the right to roam! - Milo and I pursued more sedate goals such as our first iced coffee in the park of 2026. Life goals!

Colour photo of a white fluffly samoyed dog, Milo, sitting in front of a cafe's outdoor counter and wooden signage announcing Today's Sandwiches. Milo's tongue is out andhe looks very pleased with life.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 01/05/2026

Well this little chap has up and walked (scampered!) the literal width of England - from Bowness to Wall's End. Didn't disgrace himself at any of the B&Bs he and his human stayed at. Enjoyed all the smells and gallops to be had along Hadrian's Wall. Last seen sipping a pint of Newcastle Brown Ale.

Colour photo of a black and white smooth-haired collie dog, Chip, sitting peaceably on a grassy, rocky mound while looking into the middle distance. Behind him is a square-stoned wall, Hadrian's Wall, and in the background fields and farm settlements stretch to the skyline under a cloudy blue sky above.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 24/04/2026

the boys enjoyed their weekend In The Country, though Milo finds most walks a bit long, and Chip now wants a cushion-lined Aga compartment for himself thank you very much. for a chap who spent his early years blanket-less in a cowshed, his standard of living expectations have risen sharply!

Colour photo of a smiling samoyed dog, Milo, lying amidst a scatter of blooming rapeseed plants on the edge of a field of rapeseed. Behind him is a sea of green stalks and leaves, yellow flowers, and an almost cloudless blue sky.

Colour photo of a medium sized, smooth haired border collie, Chip, sittin gon a small, worn Persian rug in front of a duck egg blue Aga cooker which has a cream painted 'dog cabinet' appended to it, i.e. what would be a run of drawers but is hollowed out to be a space for a small dog. Inside on a cushion is a curled up, sleeping jack russell terrier. Chip's expression appears somewhat judgemental or aggrieved.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 06/04/2026

Boys passed an excellent Easter, albeit Milo now in a long-needed bath immediately necessitated by Chip having such an exciting park play with a pomeranian-huskey - the only cross to match him, chase for chase - that he peed all over Milo's head. No, I don't get the physics of that either.

Colour photo of a rather hacked off looking samoyed dog, Milo, lying in a scruffy garden with covered raised wooden bed and semi-painted shed behind him, as he looks back toward the photo taker.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 06/04/2026

Oh! As the long slow weeks of (giving up Bsky for) Lent chugged by, I longed to share my ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE BOOK SO FAR THIS YEAR, @jamesbluecat.bsky.social's Pagans Read it slowly to savour each detail of this alternative history. It all rang so deeply true. And a fantastic tale. Roll on Book 2.

Book Cover of "Pagans" by James Alistair Henry. Mostly black image of possibly a castle or the city of London. Text on it reads "The Times top ten bestseller", "Enjoyably nasty and frequently very funny", the FT, and Pagans" Two cops. One Killer. Hundreds of Gods.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 06/04/2026

Well, a good Easter weekend. Reading the first of @pnh.nielsenhayden.com's incomparable Starlight anthologies. Just. so. many. bangers. and the wagging tail of a delighted cockapoo as the congregation belted out the Hallelujah chorus of Handel's Messiah. Also there was roast lamb and mah jong.

Colour photo of a black and white collie dog, Chip, sitting in a window box overlooking a grubby patio garden. His paw is on the blue-jeaned legs of the picture-taker and in her lap is a copy of the anthology Starlight !, Edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden.

Colour photo of wooden floorboards and the back of a church pew. In the foreground is a man's grey trilby hat under his seat, and in the background there is a yellow scarf hanging down and the light brown/blonde tail of a cockapoo type dog is sticking out from under the pew.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 17/02/2026

I'm giving up bsky for Lent. bloody hell. worst thing since ditching chocolate for 40 days as a schoolgirl. Hopefully these mucky pups will enjoy fewer requests to Stop Right Now So I Can Photo You Horrifying to think it'll be just me and my thoughts for the duration. and books, I suppose. fuck.

Colour photo of two dogs. In the foreground is the partial image of a black and white smooth haired border collie, Chip, looking beseechingly upward. Behind him Milo the white fluffy samoyed dog sits on a dirty, straw-coloured rug and looks at the camera, delighted with the garden mud all over his smiling snout.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 16/02/2026

well, Monday and all that, but in happier news Milo found his platonically ideal Stick in the park this weekend and chewed it to a tiny stub.

Photo of a white fluffy samoyed dog, Milo, lying on grass by a public playing field with a towerblock in the background. He is holding a small stick virtically between his front paws, has just taken a bite from it and is chewing happily as wood flakes drop onto his paws. He looks very pleased with himself.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 09/02/2026

For a guy who spent 98% of his life in a shed Chip really knows his angles and how to work a camera

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 07/02/2026

anyway look at these two goofy buys enjoying the Spring crocuses in our park that appeared overnight this week.

Photo of two dogs in a London park with swathes of purple crocuses blooming behind them and several tall, bare trees. On the left, Chip, a black and white short-haired border collie is looking down and to the side with a serious, rather pensive expression. On the right, Milo, a white fluffy samoyed, is laughing like a dolphin with open mouth and kind, cheerful eyes.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 05/02/2026

This, friends, is Chip. He recently joined our pack after being rehomed from a farm. Not just a change in home and people for him, but also career. He trained in sheep dog trials but .. wasn't very good at it. So now his fulltime job is walks, cuddles, and laying his whole body across my lap.

Photo of a woman in a stripey jumper lying on a beige sofa with two dogs lying across her. One is Milo, a white, fluffy samoyed dog, who lies with his head closest to her head, and and an expression of mild despair. The other is Chip, a black and white smooth-haired border collie, who lies with his whole body across her.

Photo taken on a beach on a sunny winter afternoon of a black and white collie dog in mid-air while jumping across a tidal stream with his shadow following along underneath.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 02/02/2026

it's well past time I introduced the newest member of my pack herewith a teaser trailer for Chip, a Very Good (and patient) Boy

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 27/01/2026

"10 penseurs pour sortir du chaos" in Futu&r magazine, France. An honour to be in such company (hi, @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social !) But also, what a perfect, poignant, and necessary visual metaphor for this moment Kintsugi Earth

Photograph of a magazine cover (with a dog's paw touching the leg of the person holding the magazine). It is the French magazine Futu&r, and the headline article is "10 penseurs pour sortir du chaos", including the post author Maria Farrell and also Ingrid Robeyns. The cover image is a drawing of a hand holding a shattered earth, pasted together with golden visible cracks, and a hand painting the golden glue on.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 22/01/2026

tbf the south west coast of Ireland was looking especially lovely today (but all I can think of is Tubes, plays, cafes. and as soon as I'm there all I will think of is the sea. oh humans)

Colour photo of a golden sunset in an almost cloudless sky over a line of mountains, sand dunes, and glass-still sea in an inlet with soft mist hovering above the water. In the foreground is a rocky shore with a black and white collie dog sniffing at sea weed.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 22/01/2026

I've never appreciated or longed more for city life - oh January - but Milo is in his element. Cold water, clean air, long walks.

Close up of a smiling samoyed dog, Milo's, face with his tongue hanging out, looking very satisfied as he sits on a wet sandy beach. In the background is a very still stretch of open water, some distant mountains and a clear evning sky.

Photo of a smiling samoyed dog, Milo, walking away from the camera into a gently rippling sea with mountains in the distance and a clear, blue, fading evening sky. Milo is half turned towards the camera, with a coquettish, satisfied grin.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 17/01/2026

anyway, Milo enjoyed his Saturday - painkillers with breakfast (he's a senior boy of almost 12 now...) and a run on the beach with these marvellous collie-adjacent pals who ran circles around him as if he were a sheep (which, fair).

Three black and white collie-type dogs trot happily towards the camera on a sandy beach with the tide so far out the sea is just two barely discernible streams, as ripples of seaweed fragements run from the front to the back of the frame.

A white, fluffy samoyed dog, Milo, smiles with his tongue hanging out, looking up at the picture taker as he walks on damp brown sand.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 04/01/2026

I'm minding this rehomed young collie dog - his future career as yet unknown, but sheep trials were very definitely not for him. He crossed the stream at Derrynane strand in two magnificent skimming leaps yesterday.

On a sunny winter day at the beach a black and white smooth-coated border collie crosses a shallow tidal stream in two leaps, with a promontory of rocks in the immediate background and mountains beyond. The image captures him fully stretched in mid air two feet above the water, a splash behind him from where he bounced off, mid-stream, to complete the crossing with a second leap. Below him as he flies his shadow crosses the water just a little faster, chased by the lowering afternoon sun.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 22/12/2025

Milo wishes all his friends a lovely Christmas week, especially those mustering the will to send out the last few emails which for some unfeasibly lame reason refuse to write themselves

Colour photo of a white samoyed dog, Milo, trotting happily through shallow, gently rippling sea water in evening light. Behind him is a small green bank, and behind it a bigger inlet, mountains in the distance and a pale blue sky with greyish purple clouods.

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