Behold: what was once a 1956 Citroën 2CV – hot-rodded by auto enthusiast Olli Erkkila
Taking the decaying shell of a Deux Chevaux he found in the woods, Olli extended the wheelbase, chopped the roof, reformed the canvas soft top to fit, replaced the original 9bhp 375cc block with an updated 2CV engine and added black spoked wheels from a 1930s Ford – the original ‘hot rod’ of the species.
‘sup?
This afternoon
Glasnevin, Dublin 9.
Barbara Evert, Eugene Langan and unnamed pooch inspect a free book stall supplied by the residents of Glanevin Hill.
Arf.
The EU is at the heart of coronavirus global response. In 10 days, on 4 May, we will launch a global pledging effort. On that day we will also announce next milestones of a global campaign to kick off an ongoing rolling replenishment. → https://t.co/ADsLS09W08 pic.twitter.com/kXUUMzVrOu
— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) April 24, 2020
Um.
This afternoon.
Thanks, Ursula.
Meanwhile…
Translation: We have done nothing. In two weeks time we are going to promise to do some stuff. We don’t know what that is yet. Give us your euros. Something something replenshment or whatever. More Europe. Cue Ode to joy. https://t.co/NU0UDWL9q3
— Guy Verhoftwat (Parody) (@GuyVerhoftwat) April 24, 2020
FIGHT!
Familiar?
National Gallery of Scotland tweetz:
Having a good or bad hair day? Which quarantine hairstyle are you?
Anyone?
‘sup?
Yesterday.
Achill Island, County Mayo.
Thanks Sauvignon Blanc
Sorcha Richardson – Honey
Sorcha is in a field of her own for the new video from her Choice Prize-nominated debut album First Prize Bravery.
Sorcha says:
“The video for Honey was shot and directed by my friend Ross Andrew Stewart. We made it, kind of on a whim, on one of Ross’s last days in Dublin before he was going back to New York, some time before the current crisis kicked off, when you could still buy a piano on adverts for €50 and drag it through a field with your friends.
That piano now lives at my rehearsal space, and is far more out of tune than when we picked it up that morning, with a couple souvenir blades of grass still stuck in the wheels.”
Sorcha plays an empty Whelan’s next Tuesday as part of the Other Voices ‘Courage’ series of online gigs streaming via Facebook, YouTube and RTE.ie.
Nick says: The grass is singing.
24th April 1920
London
The London Illustrated News publishes an interesting photograph of a ‘smuggled baby tank’ for use in Ireland aboard a Russian steamer called ‘Olga’ which is seized by British customs officers pic.twitter.com/MATC5mgFAm— 131 Weeks (@131Weeks) April 24, 2020
Not our Olga.
A steamer of the same name.
Britzki outski.
Earlier: To Be Sovereign And Indefeasible
Lower Leeson Street, Dublin 2.
The poster for last month’s (canceled/postponed) tribute gig to the late great Andrew Weatherall at The Sugar Club still in place and staying that way.
Good.
(Pix: Oisín Kane)
A reminder from The School Of Life that there’s no such thing as ‘not being able’ to dance. To wit:
…the whole point is to move about wildly without shame – and that in doing so, we connect with others and with important forgotten bits of ourselves.
Previously: Keep Emotionally Mature And Carry On
