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ukraine@war

Day 605

County Wicklow

Oct 21, 2023
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Non-Irish people: go do something else for a minute.

Okay, I’ve had three people point me to this article at the The Irish Times, each one claiming disbelief that such a gathering of words could come into existence1.

Chris Howden writes:

I know that you’re thinking, “But everything involving south of Dublin is somehow chillingly exalting”. You’re right. But this is different. It is different because it is the most uplifting thing I have ever read. I think that it might also be the uplifting thing you have ever read.

Without question it’s a peculiar story: before I was through it my eyes teared up, popped from my head and exploded like avocado met with a baseball bat.

The only way to make things better — short of making birdseed balls, hedgehog houses, and bug hotels — is to dwell on the positive, count your blessings, and know that Leo Varadkar no longer thinks cocooning is a great idea.

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