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?
Although the weather has been extremely cold for the past two weeks no snow had fallen on our hill. We had freezing easterly winds with both day and night time temperatures below zero Celsius. We have been lucky with above average sunshine everyday and beautiful clear starry nights. The east of the country has been blanketed in snow for…
I am new to blogging and when I searched for blogs pertaining to renewable energy and sustainable living I found about one quarter of a million! So why add to this list? I really don’t have any particularly good reason. I guess it’s one way for me to communicate that doesn’t involve travel, perhaps I…
Wow, it’s been ages since I’ve posted! What have you all been up to? I have been helping out at an amazing week long workshop where eighteen guys were learning to build a wind turbine – how cool is that? The workshop was organised by a locally based couple, the Leitrim Renewable Energy people Eirbyte. …
We had some real snow today, about seven or eight inches, it snowed all day, only stopping occasionally and then not for long. We went for a walk, threw really good snow balls and made a snowman. Today was a really good day for messing about and having fun! I also took a few photos…
I have some really beautiful neighbours, they are not nosey, they don’t have loud late night parties and they never ask to borrow the lawn mower…
I received the newsletter (copied below) from the good people at Food and Water Watch – a watchdog site in the USA that enable people like you and me to make a difference on matters that concern us – safe food and water for the generations to come as well as ourselves. Being an “armchair…