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Good evening folks. Some ancient Irish rainforest sights and sounds. Enjoy 😊

Shared by the Pogues official over on the mad bird 🐦 site... Thought this was nice. 💚🙏

After a three hour drive back to Tinahely Wicklow Ireland, after delivering my PhD summer report at the University of Limerick, I went for a socially distanced walk in the ancient woods, I'm now resting with a glass of wine 🍷 Sound up to hear VERY LOUD BURDS!! 😅 PhD report went well 👌 🙏

Amazon jungle Brazil 🇧🇷 Actually its Tomnafinnoge woods near lovely Tinahely Wicklow Ireland 🇮🇪 but with those bird songs blaring out its kinda sorta easy to mistake one rainforest for another. I think so anyway 😁

If you go down to the woods today... Tomnafinogue woods to be exact. First thing I do when I return to Ireland 🇮🇪 is collect my boys and head to lovely Tinahely Wicklow and set off to this ancient Irish rainforest. Me, my boys and birds. Lots of birds. 😅 *sound up

Dublin Ireland 🇮🇪 Arriving home after a couple of months in Iraq and Kurdistan. The first month of which was a full on drone war with dozens of attacks taking place, many within a km or 2 of my apartment. Now there's a sort of peace... those people deserve better. 🕊

Koya Kurdistan Iraq. I'm back in lovely Sulimani for the next couple of days and driving from Erbil through these mountains does really remind me of those Cork and Kerry mountains... By the way, I'm counting down the days till I return home to Ireland 🇮🇪 🥹💚

Koya Kurdistan Iraq. Drove from Erbil to Sulimani earlier today, a decent 3.5 hour journey but the weather was beautiful. As I passed Koya and drove over the mountains I saw this vista and just had to stop... absolutely glorious 🤯💚

May last year and my boys fully embraced waving and interacting with everyone on the banks .... I absolutely love ❤️ this memory 🥹

Being British is... A classic of the genre ✨️

Exhibit B: A darker vision... What song comes to mind? 🤔

Sami Abdulrahman park Erbil Kurdistan Iraq Two videos of the same blossoming flowers... Exhibit A:

Here's another from the recent library of thunderstorms..

Erbil Kurdistan Iraq... I really should be doing some PhD stuff but there's an electrical storm passing by! 😅

The grandson back home in lovely Ireland 🇮🇪.... I love his little baby laugh 🥰

Erbil Kurdistan Iraq Its been a lively lightning day and night. Plenty of decent video footage 👌

If you don't laugh... 😂 Bit of a British TV reference that's probably lost on Bluesky 'Murica but here you go anyway 😉 😂

Erbil Kurdistan Iraq folks. The skies are alive with the sights and sounds of a majestic thunderstorm ✨️

Tabhair Domh do Lámh 🎶 The name of this Irish music. Irish for: give me your hand. Irish is a beautiful language. 💚

At the end of the storm there's a golden sky ✨️... Dark clouds and heavy downpours over Erbil Kurdistan Iraq yesterday. Still typical orange sunset skies just beyond. 🧡 A good omen for my beloved Liverpool against Paris SG tonight? 😉😆😬🙏🤞❤️

Fields of gold ✨️ Sami Abdulrahman park Erbil Kurdistan Iraq 💚 #peace 🕊

Sunset over Erbil Kurdistan Iraq.

Babylon Iraq. One year ago today Completely overwhelming seeing these ancient ruins. When you think about some of the most famous names in history have lived here, or destroyed here Hammurabi. Ishtar Marduk Sennacherib Esarhaddon Ashurbanipal Nebuchadnezzar Cyrus Alexander Mind blowing

Some nefarious actors in the White House have been spreading rumours that Kurds are going to enter the war against Iran. That's all the justification the Iranian backed militias needed to attack Sulimani Kurdistan. I've also seen some Arab commentators share same. Gloating. Shameful.