Mrs Vicky Day (@mrsvickyday.bsky.social)

@mrsvickyday.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 11:15 AM

I assume there must be a B*rke family member in there somewhere…

@mrsvickyday.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 10:47 AM

I vaguely remember some hints or veiled references being made in the media coverage at the time to her husband and how he’s involved in or has connections with the judges, organisers or some such…

@mrsvickyday.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 10:41 AM

Really great alt text 👌

@eolai.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 9:59 PMReposted by @mrsvickyday.bsky.social

A west of Ireland #painting "Stone Walls, Galway Bay" came out of a day where I left Galway city on a bicycle and cycled out west into a world of walls and wonder. Stones, I like stones.
#SpéirGhorm #ArtYear #Scape

Landscape format in painterly acrylics on canvas. View across 3 small fields on undulating mounds, each field enclosed by blue-grey dry-stone walls with two of the walls built over the top of each mound such that in parallel they arch horizontally across the painting, and the other two walls going diagonally from the left edge such that overall the walls are in a zig-zag pattern. Inside them is rough green grass ranging from yellow to wine and almost black elements, and the corner of the field in the bottom left corner of the painting is a messy orange. The walls have dark blue shadows between the stones but with larger black shadows in the foreground. Smaller stones are along the top. Beyond the walls in the top half of the painting is a horizontal band of very pale, almost white, water of the bay running the full width of the picture, with on the far side on the left along the horizon a headland of flat pale blue. The sky is deep yellow with loose paler yellow smokey bands to suggest clouds. Signed top right in dark blue, Liam Daly

@mrsvickyday.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 7:56 AM

Have fun!

@mrsvickyday.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 7:55 AM

It’s joyful! And has me craving cabbage and potatoes 😋

@mrsvickyday.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 7:54 AM

Lovin’ the #SpookySeason colour palette on this one 🎃

@eolai.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 2:04 PMReposted by @mrsvickyday.bsky.social

A west of Ireland #painting, "Mayo Bog" I painted following a day where I had cycled north through Ballycroy and kept stopping just to enjoy the bog. There's not a lot else to say except I think we're quite lucky in Ireland to have the bogs that we do. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

Landscape format in painterly acrylics on canvas. In expressive brush marks are a yellow sky with orange under-painting breaking through, a peaked patchy dark hill of oranges and blues sitting on the horizon to the right with some lime green fields at its base, and the edge of a distant blue hill on the left edge. The rest of the painting, the bottom two-thirds, being the flatness of the yellow ochre bog running across the full width of the painting, and in the foreground cut away revealing the maroon cut turf, with grasses, some long, and bog plants in front of it along the bottom rendered in blues, oranges, yellows, and whites. Some white is on top of the flat stretch of the bog across the middle, perhaps flowers, and some dark lines suggestive of tracts or cuts. Signed top left in dark blue, Liam Daly

@mrsvickyday.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 7:10 AM

😍

@eolai.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 11:47 AMReposted by @mrsvickyday.bsky.social

A west of Ireland #painting "Burren Walls" came out of several trips to the karst landscape of County Clare where I was entranced by its fields of stone. And I do like a wall. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. On flat land of limestone karst rendered in colours of lilac, pale blue and grey, with black crevices and white highlights, is a stone wall running horizontally across the full width of the painting, with the distinctive burren stones, narrow and slanted, with crevices running lengthways. In the distance is another wall running across the full width of the painting, and distant dark lines indicate more further back before the horizon of a muted blue low tree-line with a couple of buildings dotted in among them. Further back on the left are paler blue trees or hills in the distance. There is a small tree with a leaning straight thin almost white trunk midway back on the right, with a dense small clump of dark olive foliage leaning to the right and a green bush around its base. Some flecks of light olive flora litter the fields of stone. Sky is white fluffy clouds on pale blue. Signed bottom right in dark blue, Liam Daly

@mrsvickyday.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 10:32 PM

🎉 Well done Lauren!

@mrsvickyday.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 10:23 PM

Beautiful! 😍 I can almost feel the Autumn sun on my face 🌞

@eolai.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 7:37 PMReposted by @mrsvickyday.bsky.social

From my ongoing series of autumnal trees is the #painting "Golden Leaves IV". This was a tree I would see when I had a little dog and we'd walk just to enjoy seeing the leaves on and off the trees. There'd be the odd jump into piles of leaves too, though the dog just watched. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. Silhouette of a tree's branches with some autumnal leaves, as viewed from underneath, against a rich blue into turquoise sky. Most leaves are gone so the tree is a scattering of roughly painted jagged shaped yellow leaves with olive and ochre shading, towards the outer edges mostly, and deep orange leaves mostly in the upper centre, with some white or red details but mostly the tree is a network of unleafed black branches coming off its three central vertical branches which grow from where the trunk splits off picture left of centre at the bottom up at a slight angle towards the centre of the top. The blue of the sky is a slight gradient of darker higher up and lighter in the bottom. Signed bottom right in dark blue, Liam Daly

@victoriastrauss.com Oct 7, 2026, 5:27 PMReposted by @mrsvickyday.bsky.social

Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying

Use of artificial intelligence
By registering with ISBN Canada, you declare that your book was created by a human author. You may use AI tools only for limited support tasks, such as brainstorming ideas, checking grammar, or formatting your book. You must not use AI to generate the text, create the artwork, or translate the book. ISBN Canada does not issue ISBNs for works whose content is primarily generated by AI. LAC is currently reviewing its policy regarding the use of AI content creation and our guidance is subject to change.

@westwaterfordag.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 9:56 PMReposted by @mrsvickyday.bsky.social

The wonder that is the #weeklywaterford 😍

@mrsvickyday.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 5:39 PM

It’s Wednesday - and we all know what that means… it’s #weeklywaterford time! 🤩

@mrsvickyday.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 5:38 PM

Ooh, is it Wednesday already?!? Must be #weeklywaterford time! 🥳

@bookshop.org Oct 6, 2026, 1:59 PMReposted by @mrsvickyday.bsky.social

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

@unaminh.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 11:16 AMReposted by @mrsvickyday.bsky.social

WARNING: As an author, I am receiving A LOT of scam messages from folks pretending to be literary agents, from publishing houses, etc. I'm exasperated by this scam; it's hard enough making any living as an author, but to be teased by such opportunities is nasty.

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@eolai.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 11:17 AMReposted by @mrsvickyday.bsky.social

A #painting from the northwest of Ireland, "Benbulben and Benwiskin" I painted because of what a magnificent sight Benwiskin is, and the shapes of Sligo in general make me happy. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear