Beautiful Beech
Note: not all of my images made it through the import process, some were lost in a photo sharing program I used to use.
I am every day amazed by the loveliness that is around me here on the hill. How lucky am I to live here?
I was browsing through my blog-reader today and enjoyed this post by Rachel. In fact it got me writing about something I had forgotten to mention – our latest central heating advancement. No, we have not gone mad and had oil fired central heating installed but we have improved the heating which we get from…
The Booby Prize for Packaging Waste goes to O2. We became fed up with the coverage of the Vodafone mobile broadband modem, we had become quite frustrated with the intermittent coverage that we had changed over to O2 and got one of their little modems instead. I have to admit that we are very satisfied…
Happy Bridget’s Day Although by many calendars today, February 2nd is Imbolc and for many that includes the olden goddess Bridget, in my local community and for many in Ireland February 1st is considered St Bridget’s day. In one of my local towns – and even as I say that I realise it sounds strange…
Is this really 2008? you wouldn’t think so if you read this sad and horrifying article about the current and past treatment of Aboriginal people by the police and prison authorities in Queensland Australia. Perhaps the clue is in the name “queens”land, it is not unusual for ill-treatment and injustice to follow the colonial rule,…
Sometimes when you work at home one day can blend into the next without you noticing. To make today, being Sunday, a little different we had a late breakfast of buckwheat pancakes. Sorry that I don’t have a yummylicious photograph however none of the pancakes lasted long enough to photographed! I found a basic pancake recipe and substituted 300 gr buckwheat flour…
This is where I was today…. This is where I would have liked to have been… This is why I would like to have been in Dublin today… Irish Economic Crisis Explained (short wee you-tube piece, well worth watching!)