Saturday pics of the week

Pics 1-3 are by Perkin Warbeck:

  Pic 1

Pic 2

Pic 3

“L.E. AOIFE   agus   LIOFA     le   Perkin Warbeck

L.E. Aoife is not to be confused with its sound-alike LÍofa which of late has been in the newsfeed.

Last year, the Irish Fisheries Protection Vessel was decommissioned and donated to the Maritime Squadron of the Maltese Armed Forces. It is now known as P 62 and is the largest vessel in the Malta Navy.

The boat was originally named for Aoife, the stepmother of the children of Lir. Them wot scuttled Liofa below the waterline of late, to the resounding silence of the lip syncophants of the Free Southern Stateen,  are offspring of the childer of Leer.

L.E. AOIFE agus   LIOFA

Sa Leipreachán níl an DUP líofa

B’fhearr leo bheith ag ol reefa

Thug Cabhlach Malta

D’LE Aoife, C. M. Fáilte

Fana L sa Sodarland, a la Kiefer.

(For translation into Compulsory English, please contact the Webfooted site of the G. Campbell Academy of Advanced Loinguistics which holds the copyright).”

Pic 4  is by Jude

Pic 4

“This photograph was taken in a restaurant in Brooklyn  last Spring.  It features my grand-daughter Róisín and me. I love it because it catches that total abandonment to laughter that comes so easily to children and so seldom to adults (except maybe when they’re drunk and sometimes not even then).”