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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.

#Ardee in #louthireland has enlisted the help of k

#Ardee in #louthireland has enlisted the help of kids to battle the dog poo wars- great initiative!! 🐶💩

Today we were in #Tullamore for an athletic event

Today we were in #Tullamore for an athletic event with Georgina, so @steveygarland & I squeezed in the sunniest, friendliest & doggiest #parkrunie & so glad we did. #parkruntourism is the best way to start a weekend somewhere different & get a sense of a place. There were wildflowers & lilypads & horses watching on as we ran. Beautiful(& bloody hard as it was v humid & I had wine last night 🤢). But brilliant!! #parkrun #parkruncommunity #offaly #tullamore #grandcanaloffaly #midlandsireland #irishwolfhoundsofinstagram

📚So delighted to attend the launch of ‘Barren

📚So delighted to attend the launch of ‘Barren’ by @byddilee, in @noalibisbookstore last night. The excerpts read by Byddi last night were funny & poignant & intriguing. Can’t wait to read in the sun.☀️

Beautiful #helensbaybeach this morning! Run, stret

Beautiful #helensbaybeach this morning! Run, stretch, dip. Perfect 😊☀️ Thanks to @ali741971 for her sparkling company. ✨💫🌟

🙈Here is a really boring video for you.⁣ ⁣

🙈Here is a really boring video for you.⁣
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Well, it may look boring, but I’m actually really proud of my organisational skills here. I’m a scattered sort of a person, & spend a large proportion of my life hunting for stuff.🤯⁣
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But, when I realised my kids weren’t playing with their Lego anymore, & I found a charity looking for some so we took a bit of time over a few days to sort & get it ready to donate. 🎁⁣
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I’ve now nabbed the drawers for the kitchen area. Aesthetically pleasing it is NOT, but my anxiety levels are way down, now I know where I can find everyday items. 😀⁣
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📔Drawer 1 is for a small sewing box & my diary, which I constantly misplace. ⁣
💌Drawer 2 is tapes & cards & envelopes.⁣
✏️Drawer 3 is pens & stationery.⁣
📦Drawer 4 is for bigger packing envelopes & a few random bits. ⁣
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Taking a whole day to organise would send me looking for the gin bottle (who am I kidding, I do this anyway) but it was infinitely easier because we took the odd half hour here and there to get it done. ⁣
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In this weekend’s @guardian there was a brilliant article about this so head on over if you fancy a read. I’ll also be on @u105radio now talking about this very thing. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/may/17/sort-your-life-out-in-30-minute-chunks-how-to-make-the-most-of-a-power-half-hour #organise #powerhalfhour

In ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’, Adichie describes w

In ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’, Adichie describes with lacerating spareness, the effects of starvation on the Biafran people. At least two million civilians lost their lives as a result of the conflict; many died of hunger, & many of these casualties were babies & children. @concernworldwideuk was born as a result of perilous missions to bring food & medical aid to the starving. Yesterday it was announced in Israel that a ‘basic amount of food’ could enter Gaza. Meanwhile strikes continue to hit refugee camps & a hospital in the North. ( source- BBC news). Reading Adichie, we wonder how such an atrocity could be allowed to happen back in 1967, in what was the world‘s first televised report on famine. Now we have many means of social media to show us exactly what the people of Gaza are enduring, & still it goes on. #gaza #genocide #palestine #gazaunderattack #gazaunderfire #gazagenocide🇵🇸 #bbc #concernworldwide

☀️Smiley happy larks this morning for a trot b

☀️Smiley happy larks this morning for a trot by the sea, some yoga, led by @charlottecarsonsdlp & a quick dip. Walking on air after & grateful for every single 🙏minute.

🍎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! 🍾🇫🇷🏃‍♀️

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