For the mutt who has everything.

Dublin based BusterBox pet subscription service has launched a one-off, lockdown-soothing Christmas surprise box (at link below) for your dog.

Katie Allen writes:

The gift packages include healthy all-natural treats and fun, unique toys that dogs absolutely love! Every month, BusterBox’s social media accounts are inundated with videos of customers’ dogs going wild when the courier brings their box – the dogs know it’s for them!

The gift packages include healthy all-natural treats and fun, unique toys that dogs absolutely love! Every month, BusterBox’s social media accounts are inundated with videos of customers’ dogs going wild when the courier brings their box – the dogs know it’s for them!

The boxes are shipped throughout Ireland and the UK and cost between €21.99 and €29.99. Boxes are customized based on your dog’s size & preferences.

Arf.

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Irish-made stocking fillers to broadsheet@bnroadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish_made Stocking Fillers’. No fee.

This  afternoon.

Further to last week’s Court of Appeal ruling under section 252 of the 2001 Children Act (top) that a dead child cannot be identified, when someone is charged with killing them.

Meanwhile…

Yesterday.

Last week: Protecting Whom?

Clouds blocking the sun: a common sight. But that’s not all. To wit:

Averaging over the entire Earth, clouds block the Sun about 2/3rds of the time, although much less over many land locations. On the Sun’s upper right is a prominence of magnetically levitating hot gas. The prominence might seem small but it could easily envelop our Earth and persist for over a month. The featured image is a combination of two exposures, one optimising the cloud and prominence, and the other optimising the Sun‘s texture. Both were taken about an hour apart with the same camera and from the same location in Lynnwood, Washington, USA. The shaggy texture derives from the Sun’s chromosphere, an atmospheric layer that stands out in the specifically exposed colour. The uniformity of the texture shows the surface to be relatively calm, indicative of a Sun just past the solar minimum in its 11-year cycle. In the years ahead, the Sun will progress toward a more active epoch where sunspots, prominences, and ultimately auroras on Earth will be more common: solar maximum.

(Image: Rainee Colacurcio)

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Bawl – Glen Campbell Nights

Continuing our series of underrated Irish music since 1960, reader John Lawrence eulogises about Dublin indie guitar heroes Bawl, who were led by ace tunesmith Mark Cullen (above left).

John writes:

“Year Zero (1996) for me, is right up there as one of the best Irish albums ever made. From the very start to the finish Year Zero is a triumph of creativity in terms of observational songwriting and soaring guitar/drum combinations.”

Bawl had to change their name to Fixed Stars for legal reasons, and singer Mark Cullen went on to form Pony Club and to collaborate with the Lightning Seeds‘s Ian Broudie.

Nick says: Mark of distinction.

Moncrieff – America

Purple reign.

Waterford singer/songwriter Chris Breheny (top) aka Moncrieff returns with a new single from his forthcoming EP The Class Of 2020, due on November 27.

Moncrieff says:

“I had planned to release my second EP earlier this year but I felt, after all the world kind of came to a standstill, that maybe I should hold off. Nobody had a clue what was happening and the music didn’t feel fully right for the time.

“Then I realised these are the times that I had actually always dreamt about writing songs for and being able to make music that had a voice in this bizarre time we’re in.”

Nick says: Bananarama republic.

Moncrieff

This afternoon.

Kildare Street, Dublin 2.

Bit of a turnip.

Meanwhile…

Meanwhile…

Gulp.

Earlier: ‘Confidential Basis’

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