Snow Days

I woke up yesterday morning and noticed that the world was very quiet, so even before I opened my eyes I knew that it had snowed overnight. I jumped out of bed like a kid and quickly had a mug of coffee as I lit the fire and headed out the door to play! I…

Moon Song

I have just been relaxing for a while here on a frosty Leitrim afternoon, catching up on reading other blogs that I enjoy. Correction – I wasn’t really relaxing, I was working- I was actually waiting for the washing up water in the sink to be the right temperature to wash the dishes without scalding…

Good News Story

I love this story which I found on TreeHugger, a site that I check out every now and again, I like the fact that you get good news stories there, there are enough of the other kind (like my last post for instance!). This story is about a young fella in the USA who got…

GM or not to GM

Tonight I was watching a regular program on one of our national tv channels, the program Ear To The Ground focuses on rural and agricultural issues and tonight the featured discussion was on genetically modified food crops. Sadly I didn’t find it a balanced piece, i thought that it was slanted in favour of GM,…