Grifting the croft

Whaaa's happenin'?

• Justice delayed = justice denied? That flower-thief of Carrigaline has finally been fined . . . €200 with six months to pay; she has form.
• We look out for swallows Hirundo rustica each year. They arrived here on 23 May this year: a full week after their latest arrival since [our] records began. They didn't stick around and I gloomed on about the end of days and loss of biodiversity and where have all the butterflies gone? Yesterday two couple of swallows were coursing about the yard before [our] breakfast - they must be trying for a second brood, and good luck to them.
• Election UK. The Left is optimistic.
  
• Heart-warming story of stranger who hand-carried a postal vote from Paris to London 
• Cork to MidletonCycleway Project progress report 2024 with drones
  
• I wrote a few years ago about a curator razoring out ancient illustrations for sale. Seems RTE made an audio doc about the case in 2011.
• There are no odd perfect numbers - who knew?
• On the balance of probability billionaire has been responsible for drugging horses without informed consent. Race-horses under his care He Knows No Fear, Old Tom Higgins, Boxing Hero, Grand D'espagne, Aircraft Carrier, Powerful Don, Wee Jim, Great Moon, Our Man Flint, Questionare, Green Force and Blyton all failed tests for an anabolic steroid. 
• His son is careless about the disposal of horses which have died under his care. 
• ♩ ♬ ♫ ♪ They shoot horses don't they?
• What am dat 'scampi'? It am dat Nephrops norvegicus a handy-sized decapod crustacean.
• Coleridge was famously interrupted [by a gent from Porlock] while getting "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree . . ." down on paper. Ash Farm is where the story unfolded . . . or didn't.
• Roman bronze dodecahedrons.  MetaPrev from 2010.