Wednesday, 31 December 2025

Farewell 2025: Je ne regrette rien!

Waiting for friends to arrive & blasting the song that best captures my energy exiting 2025: Edith Piaf, "Non, je ne regrette rien"! 

When actions align with values, we're at our best. There's no dissonance, dissociation or denial, which cause mental & physical self harm & harm to others. There's solace, joy & empowerment to be found in doing the right thing: By yourself, loved ones & our communities. The best gift you can give yourself & loved ones in 2026 is a commitment to prevent harm to self & others. Mask up when sharing indoor air, get HEPAs for your home/workplace, stay home when sick, vaccinate & test. Adapt to the mass, forced infections landscape to survive. Worth noting that, if you're prepared to keep getting infected with SARS-CoV-2 repeatedly, you're prepared to infect others - repeatedly. Some of whom may become disabled &/or die. That's a scientific fact (see my articles documenting said science & previous posts). Does that align with your values? A question to ask yourself on the eve of 2026💝🙏

Not a fan of "gurus" but I like this quote: “It’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society” (Krisnamurti).


Ceol agus craic! 🎸


Indoor unmasked shindig made possible thanks to this game changing piece of tech. Mask off when each person tests covid negative. We had 3 Pluslife docks between 8 people (cherished friends) which accelerated the process. The Pluslife mini dock has been shown to be 99% accurate. See scientific lit👇




We also cracked the velux windows open: Not wide enough to feel chilly but enough to keep the air circulating. Easy peasy.




Forest walk & splashing about in the river🌳





Playing this for Jon Stewart & the other anti-mask lefties punching down on maskers, pretending it's 2019 & we're not still in an ongoing SARS-C-V-2 airborne,  vascular, organ damaging, mass disabling pandemic (see previous post). Cop yourselves on 😬


A beautiful disco vibe gift



Nature's joy








My special tree, tonight 🪄









Thursday, 25 December 2025

Nollaig Shona Daoibh! Saoirse don Phalaistín & Sudan agus síocháin don domhan

Peace, joy, anger, grief: Making room for all the feelings showing up today.  Thinking of my worldwide friends, those who don't have food, or water or peace💔...& lighting a candle for loved ones gone but not forgotten🕯 

Centre piece of every Christmas since my childhood. The crib my Dad made from foraged wood. Same figurines & some of the original straw. If the house was burning down & I could only take one object, it'd be this💖🎄



 
To fellow woke zealots still basing personal & community safety decisions on scientific literature, as opposed to billionaire lackey politicians & press:  I applaud you💝👏💪. Takes courage, strength, integrity & titanium grade tenacity to refuse to cower in the face of relentless political violence & harm. 

For anyone here who hasn't been keeping up to date, read the study below (there are so many more where that came from). It's never too late to start masking & cleaning indoor air. Every SARS2 infection is worth preventing - if you value your brain & every other organ. If, however, you're someone who doesn't need a functioning brain for your job/life & you're not afraid of a bit of early onset dementia, the odd heart attack & bouts of neuropsychiatric disorders, scroll on down to the nice sunset pics👍

This study was published yesterday,  Christmas Eve. All of the studies below & the circa 500,000 other studies showing the harm SARS-CoV-2 does are published in reputable scientific journals.  The questions we should all be asking ourselves are: Why are governments pretending these studies don't exist? Why are public health officials not informing the public of the known harms from repeated SARS2 infections(including immune damage) & advising on proven effective prevention against an airborne pathogen (ffp2/3, N95 respirator masks, HEPAs, ventilation, testing, staying home when sick, vaccination/boosters) & why are health correspondents (or anyone in the media) not reporting on these studies? 👇 


COVID-19 associated neurological and psychological manifestations



SARS-CoV-2 & the brain: Significant drops in IQ scores even after "mild" COVID infection, equivalent to 7 years of brain aging👇



SARS2 infection increases risk of neuropsychiatric disorders👇



Even "mild" SARS2 infection increases risk of stroke & heart attack - from weeks to years post infection👇


BMJ: Scientists admit immunity debt was codswallop. Evidence shows SARS2 causes immune dysregulation & damage👇 

"Jeimy thinks that people who are unwilling to consider the possibility of immune damage are perhaps driven by a fear of what those answers might mean. “Nobody wants to be the one that says, ‘Yes, covid-19 causes disability’ [beyond long covid],” she says, alluding to the health and economic implications of such a conclusion".

"A 2025 study published in the Lancet11 tracked more than 830 000 US veterans and found that even non-admitted patients who tested positive for covid-19 had higher rates of bacterial, viral, and fungal infections in the year that followed. It also found that patients admitted to hospital with covid-19 were more likely to develop sepsis than those admitted with influenza.

Cell study12 of people with “long” covid suggests that SARS-CoV-2 infection can reprogram bone marrow stem cells, imprinting epigenetic changes that persist for at least a year, skewing some immune cells towards a state of hypersensitivity and inflammation. The findings signal a possible novel mechanism for longer term immune changes not strictly limited to populations with long covid.

Finally, a 2024 study13 of long covid by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, found viral RNA in gut tissue two years after infection. Using positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, the team found that T cell activity was clustered in places where SARS-CoV-2 RNA—a likely marker of viral persistence—was also present."



PS: Covid is way more deadly than flu👇




Christmas day walk. Nature & family = my healing balm💖🌳🌲🐑




December sun = morning croissant & Coffee in the semi outdoors = joy











Monday, 8 December 2025

TOMORROW: Protest @ Central Bank - Stop Funding Genocide

 A protest, organised by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, will take place at the Central Bank of Ireland on North Wall Quay, tomorrow, Tuesday 9th December, from 12.30pm to 2pm. 


Speakers at the CBI: Richard Boyd Barrett TD, Sen Alice-Mary Higggins, Ghada Ashour, genocide survivor from Gaza, Katie Martin, AFRI, Raymond Deane, Co-founder IPSC, Duncan Smith TD, Betty Purcell IPSC

Why? Faced with massive opposition to its complicity in genocide, the CBI, on the request of Israel, transferred the Israel Bond prospectus to CSSF (Commission de Surveillance du Secteur  Financier) in Luxembourg at some time prior to 1 September. This transfer, made at the “sole and absolute discretion” of the CBI, off-shored approval... but not complicity. Ireland remains the “home member state” for the bonds with CSSF acting as a “competent authority” of Ireland for this year.

In Dublin and Luxembourg on UN Day of Genocide Remembrance and Prevention, protests will be held at the CBI and the CSSF, joint facilitators of the sale of Israeli genocide-funding bonds, to demand end to complicity in genocide, apartheid, and occupation by these financial institutions. We call on the CBI and CSSF to end their complicity in genocide, to stop violating international law and to immediately end Israel’s impunity and ability to sell its bonds in the EU.

IPSC Chairperson Zoë Lawlor said: “The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign condemns the duplicitous treacherous attempt by the Central Bank of Ireland to continue to enable Israel to fundraise for genocide, apartheid, and occupation in Europe by transferring them to the CSSF in Luxembourg. We applaud the solidarity movement in Luxembourg for their strong and immediate opposition to the CSSF’s approval of the bonds. We stand, in Ireland and in Luxembourg, united in total opposition to complicity in genocide.

As Omar Barghouti, founder of the BDS movement, has said: Palestinians are not begging for charity, but seeking meaningful effective solidarity. Above all Palestinians are demanding an end to complicity – they are demanding that we do no harm. There is no more egregious harm than aiding the funding of genocide. The CBI and the CSSF must stop facilitating the sale of apartheid Israel’s bonds.

Jill Manchester, Comite Paix Juste Board Member said: “On Genocide Remembrance Day, we as civil society in Luxembourg and in Ireland, protest our states’ failure to lvie up to their moral and legal duty to take all necessary measures to prevent genocide. Instead, our states and their financial bodies, the CSSF and the CBI, continue to fuel continued Israeli impunity. In Luxembourg and in Ireland, we are demanding an end to complicity in the funding of genocide, apartheid, and occupation.”

Duncan Smith TD, Labour Party said: “The Occupying Power (Securities and Handling of Settlement Goods) Bill 2025 is fundamentally about protecting workers who do not want to handle goods from the Occupied Territories. This country has a proud tradition of standing up to injustice and I want to ensure that those workers are protected”.

The bill, which is currently before Dail Eireann second stage, provides that the Central Bank shall not approve a prospectus for securities issued by or on behalf of a state that is an occupying power.

Tuesday, 4 November 2025

HIV experts "pivot" to finding treatments for Long-Covid. SARS2 is not mild, "just a cold" or over. Mask up, clean indoor air

Trigger warning: The truth about the harms caused by forced mass infection with SARS-CoV-2, a level 3 biohazard, is starting to surface. Reality & denial are on collision course. Buckle up. 

Better still:

  • Wear an ffp2/3/N95 respirator mask when sharing indoor air 
  • Ventilate/filtrate indoor air
HIV experts in the vid below👇

 "Sars-Cov-2 can persist for long periods of time throughout the body in tissues, gut, bone marrow, brain"

"We found profound changes & inflammation in tissues"

"Residual T-cell activation across much of the body following SARS-Cov-2 infection"

It [SARS2] causes chronic inflammation which makes the immune system not work well"

"We're targeting the exact same pathways in long-covid as we did in HIV"

"We need to move beyond single therapy treatments for long-Covid". Me: Any treatment at all would be welcome. Antivirals are largely unavailable in Ireland & the UK.




Sunday, 26 October 2025

Dóchas: Catherine Connolly wins presidential election in landslide victory.

Comhghairdeachas Catherine Connolly 💪👏👏👏

A victory for humanity, peace, unity & hope. Catherine is the embodiment of compassion & integrity 💖

Tá dóchas ann 💝

Guardian fact check required when viewing the above:

1) The video claims Catherine was little known before the presidential election. False. Catherine has been a household name - in Ireland - for many years. 

2) It claims that Catherine is oft compared to Jeremy Corbyn. Codswallop. Catherine Connolly is a woman who stands in the world in her own right with her own voice, accomplishments & vision. This woman requires comparison to no man and seeks not permission nor approval for that which she has earned through her own merit, graft & grace💪🌟


Tuesday, 7 October 2025

Covid Inquiry hears Seren's story: "School became terrifying". "I was coughed at, sworn at, verbally abused and physically intimidated".

Please watch & share Seren's testimony, given recently to the UK Covid inquiry. She was forced to leave school half way through her A-levels, having become the target of sustained bullying, abuse & intimidation - not just from other students, but from staff & parents too. 

Why? She dared to continue masking to protect her disabled little sister when everyone around her wanted to pretend the pandemic was over. Afterall, we were given official permission not to care about the clinically vulnerable. By continuing to care, Seren defied official government guidance to forcibly infect everyone, including the disabled, elderly and clinically vulnerable. For the crime of following the science, refusing to consent to mass infection & salting the vibes, Seren was ruthlessly, cruelly targeted & punished. Welcome to our post caring era.

Extracts from Seren's testimony👇

"I was the only child masked and became the target for bullying"

"I was coughed at, sworn at, verbally abused and physically intimidated". Not just by other students, but by staff & other parents too

"School became terrifying"

Seren's burden, and that of many like her, is never acknowledged, such as: "The toll of carrying the burden of being the risk to your vulnerable family member, of having to advocate for clean air, having to defend myself for continuing to wear a mask or endure abuse for reminding people of a pandemic they'd rather forget".

"My sister's 13 now & still extremely vulnerable. Outside of my family, who is protecting her now"?

Seren's courage, moral clarity and defiance in the face of such abject adult failure, is inspirational & humbling. As I told her myself, you're the very best of us, Seren 💪💓🌟



Saturday, 4 October 2025

TODAY: Two Years of Genocide. National March for Palestine to take place in Dublin

 TODAY, Saturday 4th October the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by more than 175 Irish civil society groups, is holding a National Demonstration for Palestine to mark two years of Apartheid Israel’s genocide in Gaza in which it has slaughtered more than 66,000 Palestinians, and protest the Irish government’s continued refusal to hold the Apartheid state accountable.

It will be the seventeenth such national mobilisation since October 2023 - all of which have seen tens of thousands flood Dublin's streets in opposition to Israel's slaughter in Gaza.

Protestors will assemble at 12.30pm (NOTE EARLIER THAN USUAL TIME) at the Garden of Remembrance on Parnell Square, and will march from there to Leinster House for a rally outside the Dáil.  There will be a disability access point outside the back gate of Trinity, at the intersection of D’Olier Street and College Green.

Speakers at the rally will include Gazan writer and academic Yousef Aljamal, genocide survivor Dua'a Ahmed, Flotilla participant Paul Murphy TD, disability rights campaigner Sophia Mulvany, and IPSC Chairperson Zoë Lawlor. With performances from GroovelineSexy Tadhg, and Aoife Kelly & Eoghan Scott.Speaking ahead of the protest, IPSC Chairperson Zoë Lawlor said, "Two years into this genocide, and Israel's unrelenting genocide continues with at least 66,000 people murdered in Gaza, and another 900 in the West Bank. There has been a savage food and aid blockade for months — the only food available distributed by the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, spaces that have become sites of slaughter as more than 2,500 unarmed aid-seekers have been murdered by occupation forces. Between 50 and 100 people are still being killed every day - and more than 100 more Palestinians were murdered over the past 24 hours.

"We have also seen the illegal interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters, and the detention of hundreds of activists, including many Irish citizens, trying to deliver aid to Gaza.

"And the response of Western powers has been to keep sending guns, bombs, and tech to murder Palestinians. To distract, obfuscate, and feign outrage at comments made by people who are angry and upset by genocide. To arrest, assault, and now criminalise as 'terrorist' peaceful anti-genocide protesters. To try to gaslight us all into thinking this is normal. To do everything they possibly can to continue business as usual with this appalling genocidal state.

"And sadly, Ireland is little different. Simon Harris has called Israel's actions 'genocide', 'unconscionable' and 'unacceptable' — yet the Irish government is barely lifting a finger to end Ireland's deep complicity in this genocide. It won't act to stop the Central Bank offshoring of the processing Israel's genocide bonds, it won't stop the use of Shannon Airport and Irish airspace for transiting weapons to Israel, it won't stop dual-use exports to Israel. It won't ban the state investment fund — that invests our taxes — from investing in companies that profit from Israel's illegal colonial settlements. It won't even commit to ensuring the new Occupied Territories Bill bans both trade and services with illegal Israeli settlements - in fact despite promising the swift implementation of the OTB, we are still waiting.

"Let's make this Saturday, 4th October the biggest Palestine demo in Irish history, and together tell the government that there can be no more business as usual, no more pathetic excuses and hand-wringing statements — we want sanctions now!"

Wednesday, 24 September 2025

Forever-Covid hurts young people’s health – and their futures

 My article in today's Irish Independent. The only mainstream media outlet in the world to allow the "Immunity debt" codswallop to be interrogated & debunked, from the start. Thanks to my lovely editor, Tom Coogan, & the Indo for not being afraid of salting the vibes🙏

https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/tess-finch-lees-forever-covid-hurts-young-peoples-health-and-their-futures/a58161326.html

“Immunity debt” doesn’t exist, immune damage does. Children are sicker now than pre-pandemic – many with disabling chronic illnesses. This cycle of harm can only stop when we accept reality – there’s no off ramp without cleaning classroom air".

Trigger warning 1: The article contains photos of children wearing fun floral masks. Note to anti-maskers: It's never too late to embrace science.

Trigger warning 2: The masks featured are not respirators (ffp2/3 or N95s), therefore offering little or no protection against airborne viruses, including SARS-CoV-2.

Note to those upset by that: I don't get to choose the photos. Please direct complaints to the chief medical officer for  negligence & dereliction of duty to inform the public that covid is airborne & that cleaning indoor air & respirator masks are proven to protect against all airborne diseases.

https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/tess-finch-lees-forever-covid-hurts-young-peoples-health-and-their-futures/a58161326.html

Excerpt:

"The British Medical Journal (BMJ) has just cited these studies as evidence that “immunity debt”, a theory to explain the global surge in non-Covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is being challenged by emerging evidence. BMJ documents the prevalence of bacterial infections, flare-ups of old viruses, and children being hospitalised with diseases not usually seen in young, healthy people.
In the report, Samira Jeimy, an immunologist at the University of Western Ontario, explained that as many infants and toddlers hospitalised with rare infections since 2022 weren’t born when pandemic restrictions were in place, they cannot be experiencing immunity debt.
They were, however, probably exposed to coronavirus, she said.
Prof Jeimy believes that people who are unwilling to consider the possibility of immune system damage are perhaps driven by a fear of what it might mean. As she told BMJ: “Nobody wants to be the one that says, ‘Yes, Covid-19 causes disability’.”
It’s the responsibility of Ireland’s interim chief medical officer, Mary Horgan, to disseminate these BMJ findings. Instead, children have returned again to overcrowded, under-ventilated classrooms amid yet another coronavirus wave, with hand sanitiser and Calpol as their only protections against the dangerous airborne disease".

And

"Ziyad Al-Aly, professor of medicine at Washington University, said: “We worry about kids’ educational attainment, forming friendships, sports. All these facets of normal development could be impaired in long-Covid. This may negatively affect children in their most formative years, leaving them scarred for life.”

Níl na páistí ceart go leor.

Watch Violet Affleck advocate for clean indoor air as a human right, as well as respirator masks, at the UN yesterday🔥

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” 







Monday, 1 September 2025

Breaking: Israel Genocide Bonds Forced Out of Ireland!

Proud to have played a very small part in this big outcome💪 

The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign has welcomed media reports today that Israel's genocide bond prospectus approval process has been moved to Luxembourg. 

IPSC Chairperson Zoë  Lawlor said: 

"Coming after a year of campaigning by Palestine solidarity activists, t
oday is a huge victory for the people of Ireland who stand resolutely in solidarity with the people of Palestine.

"The Central Bank of Ireland has been forced by to end its shameful complicity in genocide. It has been forced to stop enabling Israel selling its genocide-funding bonds – to stop acting as the lynchpin of Israel’s fundraising in the EU.

"For a year the Central Bank of Ireland and the Irish government stone-walled all calls to end the facilitation of bonds which directly funded the genocide in Gaza, the forced starvation of the Palestinian people in Gaza, the murder of over 62,000 people in Gaza, daily bombardment and forced displacement and the destruction of Gaza. Finally, this complicity in the funding of genocide has ended.

"People all over Ireland have won this victory for Palestine through marching and organising in solidarity with the people of Palestine. Councils from Dublin City to Kerry to Donegal demanded an end to the approval by the CBI of Israel Bonds. The ICTU, legal experts, opposition politicians, the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Israel Bonds, civil society organisations and ordinary people in every town and village have called for the end of the shameful complicity of the CBI in the funding of genocide. We have been joined by amazing artists, musicians and writers in this campaign and very brilliant committed public representatives. From protests to complaints to parliamentary work, this is a huge victory for people power, and for the BDS Movement. 

"The IPSC welcomes the end of the Central Bank’s shameful role in approving Israel Bonds. We believe that the CBI should not have continued to enable Isarel to fundraise for genocide by transferring the prospectus to another competent authority. We ask that the Government confirm that Ireland will have absolutely no further involvement with Israel genocide-funding bonds. Specifically we ask the Government to clarify if Ireland remains the “home member state” for Israel Bonds under the transfer arranged by the Central Bank. And we reiterate the call from the Joint Committee's that the Irish government demand legislative change at EU to end the sale of these bonds throughout Europe.  

"Shamefully, however, many other areas of state complicity with the genocidal Apartheid state of Israel remain, and the IPSC calls for the Irish government to end the use of Shannon airport by the US military, stop the use of Irish airspace for transiting weapons to Israel, end the export of dual-use items, pass the Occupied Territories Bill in full, and join the Hague Group. 

"We are also sure that Palestine solidarity activists in Luxembourg will now take up the baton to cut off funding for Israel's criminal genocide in Gaza - and we will offer them any support we can.

"End Israel’s impunity - Sanctions Now!  Freedom, justice and equality for the Palestinian people!" 

Tuesday, 19 August 2025

Protest TODAY: Central Bank Must Not Renew Israel Bonds on 2 September

 Press Release, Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, 19th August 2025


A protest, organised by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, will take place outside the Central Bank of Ireland on North Wall Quay, TODAY Tuesday, 19 August between 12.30pm and 2pm, to demand that the Central Bank do not renew approval of sale of Israel Bonds in Europe on September 2nd.

Speakers: Donnchadh O’Laoghaire TD, Sinn Fein Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, David Landy of Jews for Palestine and Academics for Palestine, Paul Murphy TD, People Before Profit, Daire Dempsey, TENI - Transgender Equality Network Ireland, and a representative from Conradh na Gaeilge

Why? The Central Bank of Ireland is the sole gateway into the EU for Israel’s genocide-funding bonds. Approval by the CBI is given on an annual basis and the current approval ends on 1 Sept. These bonds fund the forced starvation and the genocide of the Palestinian people being perpetrated by Israel in Gaza.

IPSC Chairperson Zoe Lawlor said: “It is shameful that twenty-two months into the live-streamed genocide being perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinian people in Gaza the CBI is set to renew approval of Israel Bonds on the 2nd September. Not only the people of Ireland, the trade union movement, the solidarity movement, county councils and city councils but also the Oireachtas Finance Committee has called for an end to the approval of Israel Bonds by the CBI. This Report, published two weeks ago, states unequivocally that Israel Bonds 'assist the financing of Israel’s violations of human rights and contravening international law'.

 

"The government has to end the direct involvement of the CBI in apartheid Israel’s sale of genocide-funding bonds. The CBI is an organ of this state, and its complicity in genocide makes Ireland complicit. The government must stop renewal of Israel Bonds and end the flow of funds, authorised by the CBI, from Europe to Apartheid Israel for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity - including the forced starvation of the entire people of Gaza and the threatened forced displacement of over 800,000 people from Northern Gaza.”

David Landy of Jews for Palestine, and Academics for Palestine said: “We are asking the Central Bank to do the absolute minimum required of it under law – to end the sale of Israeli war Bonds, to finally end this direct Irish participation in Israeli genocide. This funding of genocide has been a shameful chapter in our nation’s history, and it must stop now.”

Donnchadh O’Laoghaire TD, Sinn Fein Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs said: "The urgency of the situation in Gaza cannot be understated, as starvation closes in on thousands, and the Israeli Government continues to push on with its plan to occupy Gaza and to remove it from the map. The international community has sat on its hands for far too long in the face of genocidal policies. The Irish government must use every lever at its disposal, and clearly ending the facilitation of Israeli war bonds is one of those. We need to show leadership and act now. The people of Gaza and of Palestine need us to act."  

Saturday, 16 August 2025

The Fascist Times survival guide

Joy is an act of resistance💪💝


Despite the increasingly dystopian, authoritarian world we live in, my family & I continue to find peace & joy in our friendships, travels & outdoor adventures. Not being in denial of Israel's genocide in Gaza, enabled by our Western governments & the ongoing pandemic (repeated forced infections with a level 3 biohazard) is eviscerating. When reality is this twisted & cruel, feelings of helplessness & despair so overwhelming, the mind reaches for denialism. It's a short-term, unconscious survival strategy: shutting out that which seems impossible to bear. In the long term though, living life in denial of reality is a form of psychosis, which causes harm to self & others.

As a therapist, working with trauma patients, the most threatening act was inviting them to revisit their traumatic events(s). Opening old wounds, covered in layers of tough, unyielding, sinewy scar tissue, exposing the rawness and pain to daylight: hurts. Moving from a state of emotional dissociation & repression, known to cause physiological & psychological harm, to processing those triggering feelings & confronting reality, is where the healing & harm reduction begins. The acute phase of the SARS2 pandemic, the lack of preparedness and the chaos, mass deaths and disablement that ensued, resulted in collective trauma which is being exploited by our political leaders. We're just cogs in a bankrupt (morally & financially) capitalist system, the survival of which depends on us consuming tat (online, social media, "reality" TV) & not feeling or caring very much at all. 

I choose to care: About forced disablement, forced displacements, genocide, our planet and the future of humanity.

I choose to feel and process this trauma. 

I choose to resist.

I choose reality & living life without causing harm to myself or others. I haven't been sick in 6 years & am fitter & healthier than I've ever been. I choose to live my life without SARS-Cov-2 (or any airborne) infections. Without being forcibly, repeatedly infected with a vascular, neurotropic, organ damaging, level 3 biohazard. Turns out the scientists that warned disease prevention is the best way to safeguard population health, were right. RIP public health science.

Choosing reality in this timeline is a tough gig. So, I pace myself & repeat my reality check/stayingsaneinaninsaneworld mantra since 2020: Grief & joy in every day. Making room for both. Helps me stay grounded in reality whilst protecting body & mind from the enormity, anger & grief of that. It's a life hack that I swear by. Requires mindful use of social media. Highly recommend.

Random joyful moments (just a snap shot): March-August 2025. In no particular order👇


When you find a secret river spot deep & clean enough to swim in & hang out with friends on hot summer days. Bliss.



When you forget your cossie & it's a heatwave so...




Sit awhile, read, breathe, let the sound of the flowing stream wash your worries away.




The swifts frolicking in the sky above. Playful, soft, like hand in satin glove


Hopped off the bike to film the swifts. Any excuse...



Himself: Mountain biking at start of day



Shush, it's a Wood pecker wood pecking💞


Prizes for correctly guessing song & language said song is sung in!



March: Camper trip to Germany & the Czech Republic.
Son at German border: "Let's hope they don't check your passport. Your articles about Israel's genocide in Gaza are grounds for arrest under terrorism legislation here".
Me: "Let's hope they don't check at the UK border either" Journalists were being arrested in the UK since 2023, homes raided, for exposing Israel's genocidal campaign in Gaza🙃

Someone needs to start a news outlet that captures this timeline & call it: The Fascist Times

Fascist Times soundtracks contributions from himself👇
1) You fascists bound to lose by Woody Guthrie, featuring Rhiannon Giddens💪✊



2) Cognitive dissonance blues


Resisting with  joy👇💪💖

Germany & Czech Republic road trip





Fantastic outdoor market town. Street vendors everywhere


Skiers gone, had the slopes to ourselves to bike & hike 💕





Wild lake swimming👇



Mother's day hike with my boy💓



Never took a single moment with this bundle of joy for granted. Stealing as many magical moments as I can, for as long as I can💓


Magic


Traditional spud planting (March). Between the slugs & shoats (cross between sheep & goats - my word!) who frequent our garden, they didn't stand a chance



Offending shoat interlopers!👇




Carrots & radishes survived & thrived👇





Courgettes, tomatoes, rocket, radishes &  lettuce. Harvesting this veg for the chief chef is a great feeling. Washing up never felt like a fair deal💪💚 


Ready to plant out





First courgette of many this season & still going strong

Courgette flowers in batter for starters


Garden veg mix for mains



First attempt at growing tomatoes not too shabby





Gone fishing!



Catches of the day🎣


Gutted




I do like to be beside the seaside...



When your Shaolin monk mate says it's time for Kung Fu💙😎



Sprat haul, off the pier, deep fried in batter. Yum


May: Wonderful day seaweed foraging & touring the magnificent Mungo Murphy's seaweed & abalone farm in Connemara.  Learning all about the science of aquaculture https://www.mungomurphyseaweed.com/ Amazing, sustainable, ethical business run by two hugely knowledgeable, brilliant, badass women 💪👏😎💙














Castle tour with friends👇



Teens in their natural habitat💙💖


Foraging for berries



Father's day hike: My 2 favourite humans in the whole wide world. Couldn't be prouder of my life partner & father of our son. His hands on parenting is defined by expressions of love, in words & actions. He has taught our son that, real men hug their sons (& daughters!): Even when they're taller & cooler and, that our son is loved, seen & cherished for the incredible human he is - unconditionally 💖




Sowing the seeds of love💖



Cat crashing my yoga 💕




There were other joyful encounters with fabulous folk but not everything has to be shared💙💞