Check this out, the map on this website If It Was My Home shows how the BP oil spill would look if it was in your homeplace. It is a great way to put it into perspective, try it out for yourself. Click on the link above, input your location and the map will show…
I found this story whilst trawling the web last night, the story is also covered here– what do you think? This story is about a group of women in India who have enough of being beaten and undefended. They have started to group together and stand up for themselves, using lathi – traditional sticks, if…
What do you do if you have a cold and wish to avoid sugar? Most, in fact, almost all over-the-counter cold remedies contain sugar, some contain a lot of sugar. Is there any point in taking a cold-remedy that only serves to suppress your immune system? I’ve had a winter cold for the last few days, I’ve…
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…
I am really excited about having moved my blog to a new server courtesy of a local business – my own company, in fact – Osprey Hosting. My blog posts have always been written using renewable energy because that’s the energy I have – we use a home made wind turbine and a photovoltaic array…
I have two lovely twisted trees in the garden, small but lovely, beag ach tá siad go hálainn. They have a beautiful but very small amount of colour at this time of year, it’s not even easy to notice unless you are really close up. The very tip of the opening bud has a teeny tiny little…
