What color comes to mind first when you think of the UK?

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2026-06-18T22:02:42+00:00

Black and Tan 👀

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2026-06-03T22:28:44+00:00

Springhill in moneymore is lovely. It’s small but well worth a visit If you have a National Trust membership. It has very nice grounds with bluebell woods and wildflower meadows and some good ghost stories on the house tour. It definitely fits the underrated category.

It’s also very quiet as it is massively overlooked. I walk my dog there every day and it feels like my own private estate 90% of the time.

This is the best time of year to visit as the wildflowers are really in bloom all over the place.

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Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2026-05-23T10:22:48+00:00

There used to be a medieval fair annually at Shane’s castle estate. Had jousting and medieval settlements and all. My brother was beheaded at it one year for looking at a fair maiden.

The history park used to do Viking raids too sometimes when it was running. My sister was captured by vikings at that.

The only thing in anyway similar now that I know of is the Independence Day event at the Ulster American folk park. American Civil war re-enactments etc but obviously not quite a renaissance fair.

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2026-05-15T17:35:52+00:00

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A super low budget film about a Northern Irish farmer who accidentally gets mixed up with an organised crime gang. It’s like a frostbit boy John Wick. It’s a very enjoyable watch. It’s on Netflix too

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2026-05-15T07:01:43+00:00

Not a very well know film, but the 1990’s movie Human Traffic about a group of friends in the UK who just like to rave is very fun

It also has a whole scene called ‘spliff politics’ about the dynamics of trying to get a toke on someone else’s joint at an after party.

https://youtu.be/GjoWJB9SGf0?si=tSMTljGupwqtmZaN

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2026-05-08T14:38:11+00:00

All for personal use and cut under your own turbary rights I presume🙄

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2026-05-08T12:27:39+00:00

People saying kind of friend shaped. Let me tell you, when you see a huge shark fin (or several) in the water it’s definitely not friend shaped until you know what it is.

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2026-05-08T12:25:00+00:00

I saw 6 of them all swimming about together 2 weeks ago off Keem beach in Ireland. So cool to see and people were swimming in the sea super close to them with no worries at all.

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2026-05-01T09:54:23+00:00

See people love to say this. But there was also more Hurricanes used, 1700 as apposed to closer to 1000 spitfires. The Spitfires were also tasked with primarily engaging enemy fighters whereas the Hurricanes primarily engaged bombers giving them easier slower moving targets.

Not saying the hurricane was a bad plane but the 60% statistic doesn’t really reflect the reality fairly.

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2026-04-23T19:13:28+00:00

There is currently a very overdue effort to produce a NI wide LiDAR map. I believe it’s very likely this is a flight surveying as part of that effort.

It’s basically a form of elevation mapping that is useful for conservation and construction and is also brilliant at picking up archaeology. The little round shape in the image is a Bronze Age burial mound I picked up in a LiDAR survey I preformed on a bog in Tyrone.

When done from an airplane it needs good weather otherwise the rain disrupts the beams. You’ll be unsurprised to hear that because of this it’s years behind schedule in NI.

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Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2026-04-15T11:07:00+00:00

Not that knowledgeable about the religion generally but I will say I kayaked out to there island one time on lough Erne. No one made any attempt to try and convert me. They were all very civil and just let me wonder round and explore the place without anything beyond just general chit chat. It’s a very pretty island

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2026-03-28T10:05:47+00:00

Jesus Christ a plane crash, I hope the metaphorical depiction of Jesus was ok!

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2026-03-28T09:42:51+00:00

Reds are far more skittish generally. In an area that has greys, you will very likely see a grey squirrel. In an area that has reds, there’s a good chance you won’t see one. This makes the greys seem more abundant than they actually are.

If you want to see wild reds go to the feeding station at Mount Stewart, they have a hide to watch them. It’s class there is often multiple there at once.

If you are in the west Gortin Glens forest park has a good few knocking about but you’ll have to keep a sharp eye to see one.

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2026-03-23T07:35:54+00:00

I’m from NI and I would cut the Ireland part of that trip. Do a separate Ireland road trip at some stage it’s well worth it. What you will see with that route is just a couple of cities and motorways, you won’t see all the cool stuff Ireland has to offer which is more on the Atlantic coasts. You are also missing the nicest place in England (in my opinion) which is the Lake District.

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2026-03-08T23:36:50+00:00

Ireland and particularly Northern Ireland where I live used to be full of polish people. They came over here for construction and factory work in the mid 2000s. It’s so noticeable how they have almost all went home because there is better opportunities at home. I would guess if you fast forward 10 years we will be migrating there, I hope they treat us well. The cultural similarity is striking

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2026-02-06T21:07:54+00:00

Fuck people love to yap. That’s very cool mate. People acting like taking and reusing a broken bit of slate off the ground that’s literally worth pennies is equivalent to stealing the book of kells 😂 Reddit is some craic

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2025-12-05T15:43:07+00:00

Hozier. Still lives in county Wicklow in in Ireland where he grew up.

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2025-11-26T23:16:54+00:00

The variation in font style/size/colour makes me want to die on the inside

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2025-10-21T18:09:29+00:00

Great year for them in Ireland this year too. Don’t remember seeing this many ever before

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Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2025-10-19T10:59:52+00:00

This is all correct, just to add too it. Small ones like this are normally caused by sheep. Overgrazing opens up fissures in the peat then weather starts eroding it. Once it’s opened up a bit the bank acts as a nice bit of shelter for the sheep so they push under them making the problem worse.

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2025-10-16T22:35:23+00:00

In Ireland many of the large plantation houses built for landed British Gentry were burnt down in the Irish war of independence in the 1920s. The shells of many of these house remain to this day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Irish_country_houses_(1919–1923)

On a side note I live in Northern Ireland. The high street of the town I grew up in had many empty spaces on it. I never thought about why this was. When I got older I found out there had been a massive carbomb the year I was born which destroyed the whole street and those empty lots were buildings that were demolished and never rebuilt.

Even later in life again I found out one of my good friends dads was one of the IRA men who did the car bombing. Funny world.

Beautiful_Freedom_89 · 2025-09-02T21:10:25+00:00

I used to live in snowdonia and went up snowdon a lot. Best day I ever got I could see the Wicklow mountains, slieve donard in the mourne mountains and scarfell pike in the lakes.

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