If you live in Ireland, you’ll be aware that there are a couple of memes that crop up from time to time of which the weather is one, and property is another.
Property is something I have had an interest in for 10 years, since I lived here, in fact, and discovered that renting in Ireland [...]

Treasalynch.com is being rebuilt from scratch. This means a new blog over there called Musings… and a lot of portfolio stuff will be going in there when I sort out some glitches relating to hosting changes.
The idea is to try and centralise as much of my web presence in a single starting point so that [...]

You can’t hear it now but currently pouring out of my stereo is a piece called Ar Baradoz. You’ll find it here on Youtube, however.
The weather is sort of funny at the moment – it’s been really warm, last night, meaning I couldn’t sleep, and really cold now, meaning I wish I was asleep. It’s [...]

On Saturday, during a lull in the rest of my life, I went driving around Achill. I’d notions to do the drive to Keem Beach which I have previously not done in very stormy conditions. A look around the wind revealed I wasn’t going to do it Sat either, but some moment of complete madness [...]

List of stuff I wanted to do today:

trip to beautician for painful stuff
bake olive cake
cut up mangos and freeze the cut up pieces
dinner
weave the ends on the cardigan and wash and shape it
proofread a document for a friend
close look at iPhone App development tools
reinstall Java development tools on the computer
change sheets on bed.
wash sheets from [...]

You know, I can’t actually remember the last time I was in Surfdock. No. I’m lying. I was windsurfing there with a group from work a couple of years ago, and I set up my first kite lessons  through Alan an awful long time ago now. I liked Alan a lot. Bought the odd bit [...]

I got up. I went to the shopping centre. I bought jeans. I hate shopping for clothes when I need clothes – that’s the way it is – it’s hell. Shopping centres on Sunday can be hell squared. So I was up early – didn’t even have breakfast.
When I came home, I had breakfast and [...]

I have no idea what the plans for 2009 were because the site that had the piece on them disappeared into nothingness in July. So I’m fighting blind here.
Good things I did this year

moved house back into the city after threatening to do so for 3 years. I realise now that after 7 years in [...]

Cool stuff:

racing driving lessons
climbing
Tarifa
boards.ie photography exhibition
moving house and living back in the city area rather than 10 miles out.
having fresh herbs growing in the garden.
having a garden dammit
two other personal things.

I tried diving lessons. They weren’t so successful. I have rope to make a rope mat as well – I haven’t worked out how to [...]

We have eight days or so to the shortest day in the year. December 21/22 is usually messed up by people looking for the sunrise in Newgrange (good luck to them), but the plus point about it is that it’s the turning point of the winter. It may get colder for parts of January and [...]