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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

DARE I CONSUME THE MYSTERY BANANA LIQUID?

A can of what advertises itself as Strawberry Banana Water.

The back of a can of banana water, saying "ONE OF YOUR FIVE A DAY

BANANA WATER?

YES!

We gently extract natural water from handpicked heirloom bananas using a unique enzyme process.

We then add real strawberries. Real fruit science.

ONLY TWO INGREDIENTS"

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Ladybird Three Billy Goats Gruff book. Had it read to me once, refused to have anything to do with it ever again.

An illustration from The Three Billy Goats Gruff, showing a troll climbing up from under a bridge to menace a goat.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Genuinely concerned about what's happening to the space-time continuum in this toilet.

A toilet door with a sign saying "Temporally Out Of Order"

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I loved that book so much. One of the best things I've ever seen in a museum was Le Guin's OG drawing of the tomb map.

A museum display case with a handwritten manuscript and map.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A productive year for my very small back garden.

Some apples and very small grapes on a countertop

Five kilos of fruit in a large metal pot ready to make jam.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Adventures in teenage communication

A text message exchange between me and my 13yo

Me:Just leaving now do you want me to bring anything?

Teen: I'm g

Me:You are g?
Me:You need to start using full words
Me:Or fw

Teen: I'm good
Teen: Mam fw means "f*ck with"

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sirom and their vast array of instruments were a plinking, droning, chirruping, drumming, and occasionally bowl-throwing delight. Absolutely wonderful.

One of Sirom with a large stringed ... thingy?

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sev'ral Timez are no longer opening for Ed Sheeran (I always had faith in Deep Chris).

The eerily similar looking band members of Sev'ral Timez from the TV show Gravity Falls.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

COUNTRY PEOPLE LOOK AWAY: I am out for a fancy meal and have had GOURMET CODDLE.

A little round bowl with piled up sausage, onions, potato, carrot, and croutons in the middle, surrounded by broth.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A very happy Dublin Fleadh to all except the woman who stood behind me at Madra Salach (until I moved) and literally faced away from the stage so she could better yell inanities at her pals.

Madra Salach playing in Smithfield Square.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Anyone? PLEASE DO NOT MAKE ME HAVE TO PRETEND TO BE IN GOAT NEXT THURSDAY, playing the recorder in a mask is very sweaty.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Who's really smug and went to an open water swimming lesson ON HER BIRTHDAY?

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Some amazing cropping on mobile by Bluesky there.

A cropped version of my previous post that suggests that my gym contained "a Dracula"

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

They're doing work on the ground floor of the building my gym is in, I had forgotten that for a while it not only contained a terrible night club but also a Dracula museum.

A lorry and some construction equipment with a wooden sign saying "Dracula is born".

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

A photo of the last time I saw the Beta Band.

A short-haired woman in a hoodie and glasses at a festival. She is "into the music".

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The delightful Beta Band and their bird on a stick.

The Beta Band on stage. They have much percussion, also a bird on a stick.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It's excellent! Thanks for the tip!

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I can highly recommend them!

Scissors with blue and white Moomin-print handles

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Curses, Big Exercise is right and I actually feel much better after doing that.

A smug woman in front of an outdoor swimming pool in the evening sun.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Just found time travelling Ronnie Drew, lads.

A fifteenth century painting of St Matthew (OR IS IT) bearing a suspicious resemblance to Ronnie Drew.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Last granita and brioche breakfast before I return to my benighted ice-cream-for-breakfast-free land.

A brioche bun and a tub of lemon granita

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Picture this, but accompanied by a long tedious conversation about the team Norway have chosen to play against France.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

At the tomb of Frederick II remembering his many many many beefs with the Papacy.

A large red stone tomb in Palermo Cathedral

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I am in a restaurant in an eighteenth century palazzo that is also inexplicably a Steve Jobs museum.

A nice restaurant table beside a display case containing an iMac, an iBook, and a selection of iPods.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Greatly improving my language skills via this daytime TV show about infidelity and the boom in beach detectives.

A TV screen in a restaurant showing LIVE footage from a beach.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Today's Sicilian baroque church decor highlight: biblical figure with BOX COVERED IN EYES.

A Baroque church decoration featuring a Biblical figure who is inexplicably accompanied by a cube covered in eyes. Also, a trowel.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Figured out how to get out of Purgatory, lads, you can just leave.

Picture out a car window passing a sign indicating that we are leaving Purgatorio.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Downside of hike where you can stop a couple of times and get into lovely cool sea: putting sweaty clothes back on again. I nearly recoiled in horror from my own shirt on this beach.