This is the bridge to Mizen, as it was about 5 years ago.
I’ve learned that since this photograph was taken, the bridge has been replaced with a replica because it had become dangerous. I learned this on Thursday night at an interesting talk organised by the Irish Meteorological Society and given by Eoghan Lehane of [...]
I was back on the beach today because it was sunny and windy and because I wanted to see my friends. It was like coming home. It has been too long since I have heard the sound of the wind and today, even a few waves.
I was sick during the week – I’m not going [...]
During the week, I got a hairpin lace loom from Ed Jenkins because I had had trouble finding anything large enough for my plans during the week. My plans are basically this dress – I’ve wanted to make it since I first saw it but was a bit unenthusiastic about buying yet more crochet patterns [...]
Via twitter, sometime before Christmas, I discovered that there were such things as VW camper van shaped cookie jars. They are a product line by Animal. I like some of the Animal stuff; in particular I have a backpack which I bought in the surf shop in Lahinch about 8 years ago (I hadn’t wanted [...]
You can’t see me now but I’m sitting in my kitchen watching ABC News from Australia. It’s not the first time I have found myself sitting in the kitchen listening to a meteorological theatre play out in Queensland, but this time I have pictures.
I remember listening to the cyclone hit Innisfail 5 years ago; and [...]
This was me just about a year ago pondering the future.
As an outline plan it sucked. I did no ice climbing and no kitesurfing. And I didn’t make any creme anglaise at all, never mind some which curdled. Really, abject failure.
But I still had photographs published in a couple of Mayo newspapers, Woodturning Monthly and [...]
Somewhat unusually, I spent Christmas morning putting up the Christmas tree. I know there are houses where this gets done, regularly as clockwork, on 1 December, or 8 December. For us, it used to be 23 December or whatever day the schools closed. Now it gets done when we have time.
Many of the Christmas decorations [...]
I was doing some of the Christmas shopping. There was a time when I used to do that some time in November but unfortunately reality occasionally gets in the way.
I wanted to check out a bookshop called The Gutter Bookshop. They tweet, you see, and in a conversational manner rather than in a steady stream [...]
I don’t garden. Partly this is because for a long time I lived in apartments abroad where gardening wasn’t an option and when I did start doing anything at all with plants it involved mint plants.
During the year in a charity plant sale at work I bought 2 strawberry plants in the hope that in [...]
National Concert Hall, last Thursday night. I’m usually there in time to play games on my phone or, if I’m really prepared, to do a little light knitting. Thursday nights, however, don’t work for this. I made it into the auditorium as they were closing the doors because I spent a very long time on [...]