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Last Weekend

ByMiriam February 26, 2010April 28, 2015

Here are a few pictures of the last of the snow (as far as we know)

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Do You Have a Weighting Scales?

Byadmin March 6, 2012October 22, 2020

How often do you weigh yourself? Do you only weigh yourself only when you are trying to loose weight or do you weigh yourself regularly even when you are happy with your weight? I have weighed myself only four times since I started on this healthier eating journey last October, in fact I don’t even…

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Dark Evening Knitting

ByMiriam October 25, 2009April 28, 2015

I don’t quite know what it is about dark Autumn and winter evenings that inspires me to knit or crochet. It happens each year without fail. Despite this my knitting skills have not really improved very much. I tend to knit simple things like scarves that require no pattern and I don’t have to worry…

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Grief, My First Year On This Remarkable Journey

ByMiriam August 28, 2015October 22, 2020

Loosing a parent hurts and grieving is hard work, I know this because my Dad died about ten years ago. Loosing my mother recently has been more impactful than I could have imagined, it is not a strain to say that it has been a life-changing event for me. My “normal” has gone and won’t…

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Happy New Year

ByMiriam January 1, 2009April 28, 2015

Blian Núa Shona Dhuit – Happy New Year to you and those you love. My global wish (hey, why not be ambitious?) is that we all learn to prioritise the truly important things in life and concentrate less on the superficial and commercial. I had a lovely break over the Christmas, didn’t even check my…

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MISSING THE SUN

ByMiriam August 17, 2008April 28, 2015

As I mentioned in one of my earlier entries we are living off the grid here in Leitrim, supplying all of our own electricity. We had a very basic system to start with, which we did by ourselves and now we have a more sophisticated system with help from some local people. We used to…

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Connecting to the Internet in Rural Ireland

ByMiriam November 17, 2010April 28, 2015

It seems logical to me that the first Geeky Wednesday post is about the method that I use to connect to the internet. As you know if you are a regular visitor here, I live off-the-grid, which in general terms means that my household is not connected to the electricity grid, using instead alternative energy…

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