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Why I can’t stop reading poetry – By Helen McClements

July 24, 2017 by sourweebastard

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Lifestyle blogger, based in Belfast.
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Wife, mum and collector of pets.
Never gets a moment's peace.
Gives off a lot.

🍎Both my girls have a Food & Nutrition practica

🍎Both my girls have a Food & Nutrition practical tomorrow. We’ve been thinking of menus & planning a meal, & with my usual ‘anti-waste’ diktat, decanting food stuffs into jars & bottles, so it doesn’t end up congealed & then binned in this heat. I grew lettuce in the garden & they’ll pluck leaves in the morning. There’s fruit aplenty & wheaten bread & fresh eggs. 🍳 I’ve loved doing this because I’ve had time off & it’s been a joy. But it’s sticking in my throat because at this moment children are being systematically starved to death in Gaza- famine imposed by a morally bankrupt Israeli government. And other signing petitions & making donations there is nothing we can do but watch the massacre & starvation unfold. I rarely put up posts like these but I can’t not when there is food being blocked at every border & desperate people are being denied access to it. It can’t continue. 🍉

☕️Usually Himself makes the coffee in the morn

☕️Usually Himself makes the coffee in the morning but sure didn’t I have to make it today as he was otherwise engaged- comforting the dog after the horror of rain. I think she’d forgotten what it was… 🌧️💧☔️

So I grew my own tulips & they were all droopy & w

So I grew my own tulips & they were all droopy & wonky, but then I shoved them in with some other blooms & now that I’ve given them lots of water they have raised their little heads again & are lovely! 💐

🎓Brilliant article in @bbcnewsni on the cost of

🎓Brilliant article in @bbcnewsni on the cost of school sports gear. This is why we need to normalise swap shops and/or buying second hand, so schools can raise much needed funds & pupils can learn that it isn’t necessary to buy new all the time, if they routinely see it happening with their peer groups. 👏Big shoutout to all the teachers & learning staff who make this happen already, in addition to all their other responsibilities in schools. #secondhandkidsclothes #swapshops #schooluniformswap

Stevey & I were last minute recruits for the relay

Stevey & I were last minute recruits for the relay @belfastcitymarathon yesterday & WHAT A DAY. It was Belfast at its best & finest. The support along the route from Boucher to Falls made the 4.5 mile stint feel like half the distance. I loved it, & v grateful to @ali741971 for thinking of us & giving us a place on the team. #ormeauroadbelfast had a proper music festival vibe afterwards, & of course the sunshine ☀️ made the experience all the richer. I’ve always said I’ll never do a marathon, but events like these definitely whet the appetite! #running #runningevent #runningmotivation #runningmakesmehappy #belfast #northernireland

Just to say, that if you haven’t visited @joxero

Just to say, that if you haven’t visited @joxerofficial in #Holywood #CoDown then you should really make it your business to remedy that. Had a glorious lunch there on Monday; their Korean take on Eggs Benedict was divine, washed down with a generous glass of Portuguese #vinoverde. Will I return? Try & stop me…

Celebrating @georgina_garland2011 this weekend for

Celebrating @georgina_garland2011 this weekend for making it to the #londonminimarathon2025 as part of the @ulster_schoolsathletics team. What an experience! Thanks to all the team for bringing her there safely & to her coaches @laganvalleyac. #londonminimarathon #london #athletics #running #sportmotivation

Easter Tilly shots. The best dog- zany & quirky &

Easter Tilly shots. The best dog- zany & quirky & full of sight hound loveliness. #sighthounds #sighthoundsofinsta #rescuedogsofinstagram #dogsofinstagram #allaboutgreyhoundsni

#throwbackthursday to a wonderful @Harpersyard. Ho

#throwbackthursday to a wonderful @Harpersyard. How delicious & Easter-ish do @martinaklapicka cupcakes look? 🧁🐣#cake #Easter #holidays #community #belfast #northernireland #ormeauroad

🍁🇨🇦20 year old me, with my Canadian penpa

🍁🇨🇦20 year old me, with my Canadian penpal Angie, on a visit to Ontario in 1999. I called her with 2 days notice asking if I could visit, as I was on holiday with my mum and dad in Montréal staying with their friends. Angie readily agreed and I spent two magical days in the town Belleville, visiting nearby lakes, swimming in lakes at night & feeling as if I was in my very own episode of Dawson’s Creek. 🌊🌅I started writing to Angie through the IYS, a Finnish organisation which is no longer an operation. It was only this weekend, I happened to mention to my daughter about all the penpals I’d had when I was younger. This morning I came across an article in @guardian all about penpals and friendship books which is something I have never done, but as along the same lines. Did you have pen pals when you were younger? I’m going to be talking about this in a few minutes on the Frank Mitchell show, @u105radio .

🌺Golden hour shot from last night in the garden

🌺Golden hour shot from last night in the garden. The Small Child accompanied me to @bananablockni on Mother’s Day & contributed some money to some bedding plants I was after. They are bloomin’ lovely (pardon the pun) & perennials so hoping they pop up again next year & continue to bring joy! 🤩

🇦🇺🦘Such a superb piece of #historicalfict

🇦🇺🦘Such a superb piece of #historicalfiction, by a brilliant #Australianauthor, Kate Grenville, whose novel ‘The Secret River’ is one of my favourites. (& picked up in a charity shop!) Get it on the summer reading list! 📚#booksbooksandmorebooks #lovebooks #lovereading #booksofinsta #aroommadeofleaves #canongatebooks

🌅I don’t often make it up for a morning run,

🌅I don’t often make it up for a morning run, but it was worth setting the alarm for 5-50 to see this beautiful sunshine in #ormeaupark and for the fine company of my Lark friends. Thanks to @s__ward_ for the pic, & wishing her the best run ever @parismarathon this weekend! 🍾🇫🇷🏃‍♀️

I am BLISSED out after a beautiful yoga session wi

I am BLISSED out after a beautiful yoga session with @martinaklapicka who has just finished her instructor training with @studio52.yoga. We met ten years ago at mother & baby yoga classes back in Flow Studios on the Malone Road. How lovely to come full circle now with Martina leading the practice. And a joy, as always, to meet up with @hegatronix. #yoga #friendship #morningyoga #yogabelfast #northernireland #cathedralquarterbelfast

What a treat to see @ireneboyle and her friend Pri

What a treat to see @ireneboyle and her friend Priscilla from the @therefabricatedco today @bananablockni . Such beautiful repurposed items made with love and care. 🤩 #reuserecycle #reuserevolution #greenliving🛠️🌎 #belfast #northerireland #craftfair #springhassprung

🧸 Oh look, a child’s toy, you say. ⁣
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❌ WRONG. These are Mother’s Day gifts. I kid you not. All of them, even the elephant which looks like it belongs at baby’s first birthday 🎈 ⁣
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😩 And also the bear holding the heart emblazoned with‘one in a million.’ ⁣
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🤯 One in a million & mum gets a present for an INFANT? An absolute joke- all of it. ⁣
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📻 I shall be on @u105radio after 11 today giving off about this very topic, or read about it on blog. ✍🏼Link in bio. ⁣
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😡 It’s stupid, it’s wasteful, & mums deserve better!!! ⁣#bettergifts #bettergiftsbetterplanet #bettergiftsforher #mothersdaygiftidea #supportsmall #supportlocal #mummybloggeruk #mumbloggersuk #northernireland
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✂️🧵What a productive night for @shared__thr

✂️🧵What a productive night for @shared__threads on Thursday. Over 20 bags packed, each with 6 pads, 2 holders, a handwritten card & 2 pairs of pants. We are hoping to send a consignment out to Uganda in the summer. We try to meet every month for a session of seeing, packing & of course, cake. 🍰🧁🥮☕️🫖☕️ I want to thank my group for the enormous work & the time they have given for women & girls who have no access to period products, in different places all over the world. For now, I am taking a break & handing the role of group lead to @littleloveni - Emma is so talented & such a good organiser. At the minute we have plenty of supplies of material and so will not be accepting donations for a little while until we can work through our pile. It is wonderful though to see pre-loved fabrics being made into something that will can serve an enormous purpose for girls overseas. #periodstories #stopperiodpoverty #stopperiodshame #stopperiodstigma #stopperiodplastic #reducereuserecycle♻️ #refucereuseupcycle #upcycle #repurpose #sharedthreadsni #womenhelpingotherwomen

🐶I think we can all agree: sighthounds rock. He

🐶I think we can all agree: sighthounds rock. Here’s Tilly looking all perky after her walk this morning. She had spring in her little ballet/dancer paws this morning as she pranced# along 🌸 . I now REALLY want a whippet too, after seeing Crufts, but two cats & Tilly already have my head turned, & LSB might, (& quite justifiably) request a trial separation. #sighthounds #greyhoundsofinstagram #whippet #bestinshow #pets #greyhoundlove #greyhoundlife #rescuegreyhound #belfast #northernireland #springtime🌸

Something outrageous happened in Ireland this week

Something outrageous happened in Ireland this weekend. The sun came out. TWO days in a row- I’m not even lying. ⁣
I just didn’t think that happened anymore. But it did & I’m grateful.🙏 ⁣
🏃‍♀️I jogged by the seashore. ⁣
🍷I had wine OUTSIDE. ⁣
🍦We had 99’s⁣
💃 I danced like a lunatic. ⁣
#Salthill we will be back very soon & I can’t WAIT. Galway rocks.⁣
#galway #ireland #westcoastofireland

All cross country competitions are going to be a m

All cross country competitions are going to be a major disappointment from now on if they don’t involve medieval towers. And sheep. Many thanks to @athleticsirelandofficial for their stellar organisation & extremely friendly race marshals. Georgina’s first ever All Ireland Schools’ Cross Country & we are so proud of her. Many thanks to her coaches @laganvalleyac - their support & training is immense. #crosscountryrunning #galway #xc #running #ballybritracecourse #ireland #athletics

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