OrlaBorealis

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Unicorn rainbow dyke. Mother. Reads, hikes, camps. Not a craic killer #LWithTheT #QueersForPalestine 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

Picture of a hobbit house with characteristic round door
Image of the Poolbeg chimneys in Dublin Bay taken from a distance. Trees and heather in the foreground
Image of a plate of fried green tomatoes
A wall print saying "But first, coffee" in Irish.
Castle walls overlooking a village under a mountain
Gift shop in Gjirokäster, Albania, old narrow building on a street corner hung with fairy lights and gifts on display outside
The Blue Eye spring. An image of a lake with teal blue water surrounded by green foliage and overlooking by a viewing platform with people on it
Scene from an hotel terrace. Pool in the foreground, hedge with a palm tree, the sea and mountains beyond under a blue sky.
The cover of "The Beekeeper of Aleppo" by Christy Lefteri depicting a pair of hands, cupped, surrounding a bee in midair with buildings in the background
Cover of Anne Frank "The diary of a young girl" with a photograph of the author
The cover of "Queen Lucia" by EF Benson depicting a lady in 1920's dress sitting at a piano surrounded by adoring friends
Cover of JD Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" No pictures, just text
The cover of the book "Cooking for Friends" by Raymond Blanc depicting the chef himself looking much younger than he currently does because this book is years old.
The cover of "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott" depicting four young women looking at a book
Front cover of "Henry and June" by Anaïs Nin depicting a woman gazing forward with expressive eyes, short hair, dangling earrings
Cover of "The Virgin in the Garden" by AS Byatt depicting a path running through a maze with several figures standing, sitting and peeking through the hedges
The cover of "The Enchanted April" by Elizabeth Von Arnim depicting a town on the Amalfi coast with houses built into a cliff by the sea and a bright sun
Cover of "The Women's Room" by Marilyn French
The cover of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera depicting a cartoon of a dog
Book cover of "Tipping The Velvet" by Sarah Waters, depicting two women peering out behind stage curtains
Image of the cover of "Silas Marner" by George Eliot depicting an elderly man holding a small golden haired girl
Cover of "Body of Evidence" by Hazel Katherine Larkin. Cover photo is the author lying on a bed wrapped with crime-scene tape
Cover of "Anne of Green Gables" depicting a little red haired girl walking over s wooden bridge ovet a river
Cover of "Lord of the rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" depicting three boats sailing in an ethereal valley
A split image showing the almost identical images of a pig's eye ( top) and Donald Trump's eye ( bottom)
Book cover for "Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver. A small red haired boy with a grim expression leans over a railing
Book cover of Oliver Sacks "The Man Who Mistook his wife for a hat" Picture of a black hat on a teal background with text underneath
A puppie with a brown and white face lying on a pink fleece dressing gown
Black and white image showing a woman facing Groucho Marx. She says "I believe Donald J Trump was sent by God". He replies "Why. Did he run out of locusts?"
Picture of rabbit and baby rabbits in a rabbit hole shop
Christmas tree decorated to look like a giant pineapple
Picture of Pride Rainbow Doc Martens
Poster: Queers for Palestine presents Cash Kings, an extravaganza of entertainment Street 66 Sunday 15th December. Doors at 6.30pm, show at 7pm tickets €10
West Highland Terrier and Jack Russell cross on a tartan blanket on my red sofa
Sunset picture. Sky with colour changing from light orange at the top of the picture to a deep red orange beneath. Sun setting is a white globe toward the bottom of the sky. Under the sky is the grey-blue sea with the setting sun reflected in the ripples. Memories of a happier time when I could afford a holiday. Hoping better times are ahead for me this year and I will see a Spanish sunset again
View from the climb up Croagh Patrick. Blue sky at the top, a little bit of cloud underneath, the islands and peninsulas of Clew bay beneath that, the rocky path up Croagh Patrick in the foreground with some hikers a short distance away. What the picture does not capture is the sheer exhaustion I was feeling at that point and the frustration at the rockiness of the path and how carefully I had to pick my steps
A graphic which reads "Get to know my book taste. For every like I will post one book from my shelves I love