Monday 29 June, 2026

Fuchsia I think this is still my favourite flower. If you’re ever in Kerry at this time of the year you can drive down country lanes where the hedgerows appear to consist of little else. Quote of the Day ”If Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12-hour news story. The idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy.” J.D. Vance June 26, 2026 Link Sadly, it’s true. Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel | Bist du bei mir | Placido Domingo & Sissel Kyrkjebjo Link This beautiful air — which has often been wrongly attributed to J.S. Bach because his wife had included it in one of her notebooks — came to mind yesterday. A beloved sister-in-law had passed peacefully away on Saturday morning after an horrendous battle with cancer and, like everyone else, I was hit by contradictory feelings — sadness at her loss, and relief that at least her suffering was over. The great thing was that her death was peaceful, something captured by the…