@Ireland Curator: Nuala Fahey

I'm off to drink cider now I'm safe from the risk of drunk tweeting. May spend some time wondering why it has a different name in Scotland.

Tweeting here next week will be Corina @mayocorina She's in New York so will start tweeting later on Monday than usual. Have fun :-)

I'll be back to @hfnuala which is quieter though I feel like I have got my Twitter mojo back this week. Say hello if you want bread chat.

Right, that's me done for the week. Thanks for some great conversations. And I'm delighted it's finally sunny here in Dublin.

RT @JacqGrogan: @ireland My three year old just asked me to unfankle something, this is a proud day! She can add it to numpty and dreich ...

I love it when my kids use scots words. I wonder if the eldest will learn to do it more with her friends and less with me.

Aye Can - Read Scots - Kidspoem/Bairnsangs by Liz Lochhead ayecan.com/read_scots/liz… I love this poem.

And now it is spitting. Sorry I drew attention to you, sun.

The sun is out.

RT @mollie5555: Referendum on same-sex marriage recommended - RTÉ News rte.ie/news/2013/0414… via @rtenews << great news!

@Edkennedygolf restart your Twitter client. There is a pic of me, honest.

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I'm never here long enough for the Luas novelty to wear off. Off to hang out with friend from college and her kids.

@PotterAsylum that people like to categorise. And generalise. Usually they are wrong but it still happens.

@socmot if I had stayed I might have developed a fine Doirt accent.

But my point is more that immigrating gives me some anonymity.

@emer4612 does it really matter? No. Do people think it does? Yes, some do and it will change how they treat you.

My cousin's husband pointed out this was probably harder for people from Finglas than people from Blackrock.

Am sure Edinburgh folk do it too but at least they don't know what Dublin signifiers mean.

Chatted with one cousin yesterday about how people in Dublin think if they know what school you went to they know everything about you.

@trimroy I love encyclopedias. Shame they've all gone online. Thinking of buying my kids a second hand one.

@RenatheS black pudding, bacon and mushrooms. About half of a traditional Irish breakfast.

The Librarian has taken one of my books because my book was overdue.

Breakfast made by my mum. pic.twitter.com/407qImeD51

Elder daughter on yesterday's party: we had crisps and chocolate and watched telly. It was brilliant.

Elder daughter is playing at libraries. pic.twitter.com/H82jKlXCvd

@BMacGo genuine lol.

@JoBW tweeting after wine always risky. Auto correct can go crazy.

Better shot of the bonnet. pic.twitter.com/St5n67jyXd

Didn't manage the zoo today, so here I am last time I went. pic.twitter.com/kfnjXTKUvQ

@diarmuidcogan Sorry, typo. Male partner.

Managed to confuse my anti-gay marriage uncle by complained that I can't get a civil partnership with my male partner.

The old family photos are out.

RT @RegNom: @ireland I've seen a tram in Edinburgh. It was stationary, almost taunting, on Princes Street, but still.

Connolly was born in Edinburgh. pic.twitter.com/TESKs3vkbC

Sorry, Edinburgh bitterness showing.

An actual tram. Amazing.

@lobbybarbook yup. A weakness of mine.

RT @francotweets: L'étale au marché ;-) pic.twitter.com/iRoMxn4tBB

A rebellion in the ranks (hungry kids) lead to an unplanned food stop. pic.twitter.com/THF1Ib1yjP

@HurdyGurdyRadio I love spotting them. The New Ross one I retweeted is older than any I've ever seen.

@ConwayDavid I wonder will Scotland just paint them blue?

RT @DanStLedger: @ireland This is a former British post box here in New Ross dating to 1866. pic.twitter.com/I27k4DiP74

British postboxes painted green. pic.twitter.com/hs2HjebktV

@mexitortoise for Dublin that is.

@mexitortoise a shared bus, train and tram ticketing system.

@emer4612 taking forever to cross Blackrock bypass during Friday rush hour was another :-)

Things that mean I'm home. Bilingual signs and notices.

@dervlam 'sOk we are going on the Luas too so helpful reminder, thanks.

@dervlam not on the Dart, I think.

Ready to head out. pic.twitter.com/KF1suvdVML

RT @mrcbehan: Women between 45 -55 have the highest rate in female suicide in Ireland just mentioned on #newstalk

1913 lockout in needlework. irishtimes.com/culture/art-an… I love this, especially SIPTU's involvement. Old school union banners are amazing.

Marketing genius, really. No way to pay for this much publicity.

From @wholesomeIE Homemade chocolate Taytos wholesomeireland.com/?p=1770

@cuigcead Dublin airport.

Photographic evidence RT @annemariewyley: NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! RT @Eamonn_Forde It's real. It exists #tayto twitpic.com/ciuzr3

I saw some Tayto branded chocolate at the airport. Does it actually have crisps in it?

@AblazingKitchen I've never cut a steek before so I'm nervous.

@DanielBurke3 that's right. Clearly I thought that was so ridiculous I blanked it.

On Masterchef last week they made soda bread and put honey in it. This seems wrong to me. Mum's recipe is flour, salt, soda and buttermilk.

RT @stunt_penguin: @ireland A Fig Roll Haiku: Fig Rolls Have figs in Wherein lies the mystery? Method of entry! - Basho

Home. Where are the Kimberleys? pic.twitter.com/85z0kynKEb

Just saw a tram. Someday they'll let people on them. #edinburgh

Btw here is an explanation for the baking. ubiqchick.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/con…

@NomDeClare well passport from one as both kids have both nationalities automatically but yes. Not deliberate.

RT @devronbaldwin: @ireland "Which cover identity am I today??" you should say loudly to your travel companions as you hold out the pass ...

@NomDeClare elder. Younger daughter has a British one.

The kids having different surnames doesn't help.

2 Irish and 2 British passports. Always confuses border folk. pic.twitter.com/gJX4CJgoc8

@ClodaghShortall it took me a while to get the hang of it. I move the wool v differently than when knitting.

I don't just knit, I also crochet. pic.twitter.com/cmY7NNbPvJ

@wyvernfriend I have the kit for sue the ewe was well. Sam was so much fun to make.

I hope if I ever lose an eye I'll be like that, still determined to keep going.

He then told me he was there because she had just had an eye removed because of cancer but she was still knitting while recovering.

Hand knitted socks are so special. I was in a waiting room for an eye specialist once & a man in his 80s told me his wife always made his.

For @wyvernfriend my favourite completed project on ravelry ravelry.com/projects/nuala…

@wyvernfriend I used to have a bit of a sock yarn habit. I am working through making blankets with them.

@wyvernfriend yes. I love it, such a great resource.

@NeatFreak_ have some wine leftover from last night. Would be crime not to have it with lunch.

Am at a soft play place with younger so she is tired before trip to airport. Travelling with kids requires strategies.

The knitting I am bringing on the trip. pic.twitter.com/Qhvu0ZiCeB

@wyvernfriend Socks are the perfect travel project. And sock yarn is great souvenir yarn as it is small and everywhere has different dyers.

@AblazingKitchen Lace is this ravelry.com/patterns/libra… in blue sea silk. Also working on an Icelandic yoked cardigan with steek.

@ClaireNolan don't have a copy in the house, but will hunt it down this year. Trying to read them all.

My favourite Iain M Banks is Against a Dark Background.

Knitting, the cardigan will have to stay behind as it is too big. Lace is perfect for travelling as it is small.

Books - am currently re-reading Banks because of the recent sad news. So Excession and probably Matter.

Time to tackle the important questions. What books and knitting to bring for the weekend.

RT @LoretInStitches: @ireland what do you think of our #knitbombing project. It's the bull in the market square, Navan, Co Meath (",) ht ...

This is beautiful and makes me want to go St Ives on holiday. mockduck.livejournal.com/1056240.html - a scrapbook by @mockduck

My favourite song m.youtube.com/watch?v=BOJXT6… Ballboy, I Hate Scotland. @18saughtonmains says he can tell I'm in a good mood if I play this song.

@mrs_bopp And no room for doubt about what the doctors could do and when.

@Ryanofoto They live in Scotland. Even in the relatively dry east, there's rain. Definitely not as much, though.

@Lucy_McKenna @PotterAsylum I don't think I've been to the zoo since I was 4. There is a photo of me & the brother in some epic knit bonnets

@PotterAsylum the one on the amphibian vehicle? Did it with the 6 year old and had a great time.

Off to Dublin tomorrow. What's on this weekend to amuse a 3 and 6 year old?

I had been developing the theory that coffee strength starts at 3 so people like me can pretend we are drinking strongish coffee.

RT @Louismasterson: @ireland I read your tweet earlier and for the first time ever, I happened to see this today #coincidence http://t.c ...

@Louismasterson No way! It exists!

Walking along with a kid on a running bike feels a bit like I imagine having a motor cycle outrider to be like. She clears a path.

RT @JustJimWillDo: No, @ireland, you don't seem to understand. Your Jedwards can't stay here. They're making the place look untidy. Plea ...

@RevDBH I don't know what else to call taking women seriously as actual people who deserve to live.

Apparently Jedward are in Australia? @JustJimWillDo wants us to take them back. I think they are probably enjoying the weather and can stay.

@JustJimWillDo I think they're happy with you. No rush in bringing them back.

Or do I mean assumed? Maybe I mean hoped? Thought?

I remember the early 90s when it felt like things were slowly getting more socially liberal & I assumed women dying was a thing of the past.

I want to tweet about #Savita but then get depressed by how big the whole topic is. When I left in 96 I assumed all this would be sorted.

RT @pigletmagic: @ireland I think you can have your physical 'home' (where you live now) and your spiritual 'home' (where you have a con ...

@muttonkidneys not much rain in Edinburgh so decided to live on the edge.

Stop Press! I am out without a coat. Maybe winter will end:-)

RT @TaraFlynn: @ireland Coffee Strengths 1 & 2 are classed as tea.

Why does coffe strength start at 3? I've never seen a strength 2 coffee for sale.

@JaneyHurley I think immigrating in 96 was the right decision for me, but it definitely leads tp confusion about somethings.

RT @uneamino: @ireland This is definitely an Irish thing. Grew up in London and whenever my mum and her friends said 'home' they always ...

RT @AnoukPross: @ireland Home is a variety of things. I call going to my parents going home, to my own house or wherever my backpack is ...

@cossiemum I think both are my home. I don't expect to ever not feel like visiting Dublin is going home.

He says home is where you live, not where you're from.

I was just talking to someone about going to Dublin this weekend. I called it going home which my OH finds weird.

This is my last week with younger daughter before she starts pre-school. She can't wait.

Equality audit on Croke Park irishtimes.com/news/social-af… doesn't look good. This analysis is important, but will anyone listen?

@PatMcClay Yes, because gymnastics is done as GB. It is very confusing.

@PatMcClay No, but there is a Scottish one and I don't think I've ever heard her call herself British.

Elder kid back from football. She tells me she would play football for Ireland. Unclear why this is different from gymnastics.

@socmot I think it is impossible to avoid the pro independence party splitting even without a civil war.

@MarkJLambe I moved here assuming it was obvious and now I think it is more complicated. So is genuine question.

RT @cmcgovern: @ireland it's a bit like asking "is it better to be an adult?" "Yes, but you then have to be an adult..."

Eldest is about to do her gymnastics. The question is will it be gb or Scotland by the time she can compete? pic.twitter.com/iFv4ovjwOR

What would you tell Scots about independence for Ireland? Was it a good thing? Should they go for it?

Eldest is about to do her gymnastics. The question is will it be gb or Scotland by the time she can compete?

And a lamb. pic.twitter.com/twqzF5AlK7

Baby goats at Gorgie City Farm pic.twitter.com/bIPmRpeGDp

RT @geckoinpdx: @ireland if you force-quit or end task the twitter app then restart, it corrects itself every time.

I promise I do look more like someone tweeting about baking and knitting than last week's lovely curator does.

Some of you might still be seeing last week's curator icon. This is a client problem, as the photo was changed when I took over.

@artbyailbhe trying that. Suspect not rubbing hard enough as worried about making things worse.

RT @jennih666: @ireland not in the world, in the OECD. 10th out of 29.

@jennih666 Oops, thanks for that.

So, how do you get biro marks off a LCD telly? Asking for a friend.

She insists she doesn't need me in the room to keep her company because she's big now. I think in her head she's the same age as her sister.

3 year old is watching The Cat Returns for 6th time this week. Before this she was obsessed with Pirates, In An Adventure with Scientists.

RT @unicefireland: “In Ireland it is vital we don’t forget the children behind the statistics who have always lived below the poverty li ...

@therealhatcher I think the uniform is a symptom of how much autonomy a school system is willing to give kids.

@AntoinetteVict2 do the kids lose their personality or is does it change how everyone else treats them?

Ireland 10th best place in the world to be a kid unicef.ie/NewsMedia/Irel… check out @unicefireland for more #rc11

@cossiemum Ha! That would be brilliant. My 3 year old has a pink tutu and everyone smiles when she wears it. Especially on her balance bike.

Uniforms tend to go with ideas about kids that are quite anti individual and autonomy.

Because we moved a lot as kids I went to both uniform & non schools. The big diff wasn't the uniform, it was the way kids were treated.

@MargaretJose4 so the uniforms in Oz are the same as 20 years ago?

@cossiemum My diva is a diva over little details of the unform. No escaping diva nature.

@Nicheallaigh I don't think there is a state primary school around here without one. One secondary.

Still, resolved to my satisfaction & she will look lovely in the class photo. I wish they didn't have a uniform, but this is a rare opinion.

This morning's clothes argument is about what exactly is and isn't the school uniform. Again, I expected this to be a teen problem.

Via @BACCiaran: RT @theirishpost 'Am I English or Irish' Is this the question faced by everyone of 2nd gen.? - bit.ly/14zLtPm

RT @onyerbikeafrica: @ireland well it is actually from Cairo to Cape Town and there are still lots of up hill...trust me!

So @onyerbikeafrica is cycling from Cape Town to Cairo to raise money for suicide prevention. As an occasional touring cyclist, am mpressed.

Today's bread needs work. I am trying to perfect a brown roll recipe. Getting there. pic.twitter.com/Z2FGEtmvPU

@ThisIsKnit thanks, I will check them out.

Interesting article irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/heal… I love the last para. Don't tell your kids you are doing anything unusual and they won't notice.

@Princess_Sassy wow, that looks amazing. Loves the colour.

RT @ThisIsKnit: @ireland @EdinYarnFest @oldmaidenaunt @lionessarts The best Irish dyers? @Hedgehog_Fibres @CoolreeYarns and @dublindye

@shamroxann Thanks. It is getting too big to carry around and I do most of my knitting waiting for the kids.

My most recent purchase was at @EdinYarnFest - I got some @oldmaidenaunt and @lionessarts and I was wondering who are the good Irish dyers?

I used to get wool from Springwools when it was in Blackrock Shopping Centre.

Talking of knitting, I learnt in the mid 80s for Home Ec and while I never really got the hang of sewing, the knitting stuck.

@Karenwq4 Hee! That does sound funny.

@KJoanne my mum bought it for me. From the Cake Cafe, I think.

My apron. pic.twitter.com/S9rqdzIweV

My wee one is supposed to be helping not stealing bread. Her apron was a present from my family. pic.twitter.com/94HDrU08Be

Going home through Craighlockhart Woods. The pond used to be for curling, now a nature reserve. pic.twitter.com/AfL1GzpzTa

@liam_coburn but yes, growing up here means she is surrounded by Scottish/British things.

@liam_coburn she is 6 and says she is both when asked. And their Dad is Scottish though doesn't believe in nation state.

@unakavanagh I'm really not sure. When she told me she was clearly worried I'd be upset by this.

@wiamhey I thought so :(

... of course, it may be Scotland by then.

Both my girls love gymnastics. The eldest plans to do it at the Olympics. But she says she wants to for gb, not Ireland....

Knitting while younger is at gymnastics. pic.twitter.com/lzNqcAcHa1

My clonmel granny would have approved of twitter's views on tea. She used to hate seeing me drink water with meals.

Boots. pic.twitter.com/ltq7lqrGBw

@munstergal is this a Bosco question?

The elder daughter wants to know if it is spring in Dublin yet. She also wants to bring suncream.

I like Kimberleys. If fact they are what I request from visitors.

@GalvinIRL it is ok. I like some Powers occasionally.

@galwayoyster @Noel_Dennan I like cheese, it doesn't like me

RT @MariaMernagh: The person who is curating the @ireland account does not like tea! Is that allowed?

RT @tisJames: @jennih666 @ireland this is modern Ireland embracing diverse lifestyle choices :)

RT @Noel_Dennan: @ireland you don't like tea or Guinness? Are you sure you're Irish?

@IanEglington I found the last half hour just lost me. I was going with it until the seduction. Just didn't believe it from there.

I don't like Guinness either.

RT @tommycollison: @ireland we should unite and stage a coup!

RT @jennih666: @ireland you don't drink tea!?!? I don't think you have the skill set to curate this account.

Btw, at least one peson who replied last night liked Side Effects.

My morning cup of coffee. Not tea, I'm one of those rare Irish non tea drinkers. pic.twitter.com/MfPId9SFor

All that is left of yesterday's bread. pic.twitter.com/2U06BHmtMn

@mrskevieg that was the other film we considered.

@mrskevieg it is my standard recipe ubiqchick.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/try…

That film (Side Effects) was terrible. What's the worse film you have seen this year?

Off to the movies. Should be My Beautiful Laundrette, really.

@leftwithnoarms I have been making bread for about 2 years now. So much fun. And can eat the evidence.

@mediaflash irish goats cheese. Though it is the place I miss butter the most.

This evening's bread. pic.twitter.com/MpqVi3i9LB

RT @18saughtonmains: @ireland 40 odd members of your family or 40-odd members? Makes a difference as to what to pack.

@JacqGrogan my eldest always tells people she is Scottish and Irish. I think she likes having two nationalities. Dunno if that will stick.

When you live abroad visits have to be intense, trying to cram all your catch up into a tiny space.

We are away back to Dublin on Friday and the girls and their dad are going to meet 40 odd members of my family.

@garmacnamee The natural history museum is my favourite. I used to skive off from lectures and go for a wander. It is so old school.

I heard about Mrs Thatcher when listening to @BBC6Music which is probably the best place to hear the music of her era.

RT @garmacnamee: @ireland National History Museum has a 'Sleep in the Safari' thing this month I believe!

RT @NMIreland: @conibonjovi @ireland We would love to but due to health & safety concerns we can not offer regular sleepovers but ht ...

@dinglesurf @benkenealy what did my liver ever do to you?

Eldest daughter and I are going to a sleepover in the Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh in July. Does anyone know if any Irish museums do one?

@alsiewalsie Needs to be done. I can be philosophical now as my term as Secretary is over. I got to know many neighbours through it.

@NomDeClare sadly not. But I had some anyway. Need to start making cakes myself again.

@PotterAsylum a 2 year old witch sounds excellent.

At a playgroup committee meeting. Luckily there is cake. pic.twitter.com/7CnHhqSQ9Z

Younger daughter decided it is cold after all and borrowed my mittens. pic.twitter.com/OkhhF86Wko

@borogovedub Tough one, badgers have vicious claws, but baboons are no pushovers. If the badger gets the element of surprise, maybe.

I feel there should be no rebellions about clothes until the teen years. My 3 year old disagrees and wants to wear a sundress.

This week I'm looking forward to reading @francotweets which this week is a French baker who lives in Ireland. Photos should be inspiring.

Morning everyone, time for me to start tweeting as @ireland, but first, the walk to school.