Course you are.

Broadsheet on the Telly returns at 9.30pm with another self-isolation special streaming LIVE here and on our YouTube Channel.

Join old friends, new pals and domestic pets as we remove the mask on the week’s lockdown.

Bring cans.

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La Trattoria restaurant in Midleton, Co Cork

This week

La Trattoria Restaurant in Midleton, Co Cork, either delivered or handed out for collection 292 free roast dinners to those who needed them.

The restaurant started delivering free dinners almost two weeks ago after it was forced to close on March 18.

Local food producers have been donating meat and vegetables while volunteer drivers deliver the dinners.

In fairness.

La Trattoria Restaurant, Midleton (Facebook)

Update:

FIGHT!

Previously: Drive By Recitation

Genuinely dark skies are a diminishing rarity given the ubiquity of wasteful artificial lighting, much of which serves to block our vision of space above us. To wit:

This light pollution not only wastes energy, but, when reflected by the Earth’s atmosphere back down, creates a nighttime brightness that disrupts wildlife and harms human health, while doing very little to prevent crime. Light pollution is also making a dark night sky a scarcity for new generations. While there is little that can be done in large cities, rural country areas could benefit from lighting that is fully shielded from exposing the night sky where it is not needed. The featured panorama contains 6 adjacent vertical segments taken from different locations across Slovakia — but with the same equipment and at the same time of night, and then subjected to the same digital post-processing. Although no stars are visible on the left-most city sky, the right-most country sky is magnificently dark. You can help protect the wonders of your night sky by favoring, when possible, dark sky friendly lighting.

(Image: Tomas Slovinsky; Text: Matipon Tangmatitham (NARIT))

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The votes are in.

Last week,  with a healing €25 Golden Discs voucher on offer, I asked what is your favourite music video from the 1990s?

You answered in your tens.

But there could be only one winner.

Third place:

Buddy Holly by Weezer

IvanL writes:

it has to be Weezer’s Buddy Holly video …directed by Spike Jonze…Happy Days….Da Fonze…included on the Windows 95 CD-ROM …pure 90’s bliss!

Runner-up:

Wicked Game by Chris Isaak

Otis Blue writes:

The video for Wicked Game by Chris Isaak evokes many the memory of an Irish beach holiday in the ‘90s…

Winner:

Bachelorette by Bjork

Joe writes:

Nothing comes anywhere close to the true artistic supernova genius and the closest example of perfect unification of the form by Michel Gondry and Bjork in this classic…

As a lifelong fan of cinema, the wonderous Psychedelic empathy machine of the human condition that it is… I can remember vividly the first time I experienced listening and watching this video unfold before my eyes as it grabbed my attention, I seized up, frozen in position with utter wonder and amazement…

Thanks all.

Last week: Win Nick’s Quarantine Voucher

Golden Discs

Cats can catch coronavirus, study finds, prompting WHO investigation (Reuters)

Meanwhile…

Arf.

‘sup?

Jan Freedman tweetz:

Spotted a beautiful glow-worm. Not a worm, but a beetle. The juveniles look like this (above), and so do females. Male adult oneslook more like beetles.

Female glow-worms have bioluminescence in the bottom part of their bodies to attract males….

That old trick.

A timely feature from The School Of Life. To wit:

Emotional maturity isn’t just something we can achieve in the good times. It’s a quality that can accompany us through the deepest crises.  A key idea to keep in mind is that it isn’t chiefly what happens to us that affects our lives, it’s how we learn to think about what has happened – and that, fortunately, is very much within our control.

Previously: All Together Now

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