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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…
What Year Is This?
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,…
One Person With One Shovel…
Today I read a blog that is on my goggle reader list, written by a woman, Sharman Apt Russell, who writes beautifully about feeling connection with place. Her blog is here. This particular entry is called “Love of Home” and it was the last paragraph that gave me pause for thought – It buoys me…
Follow the International Space Station
Are you interested in seeing the International Space Station as it flies overhead? I have been lucky enough to see it twice recently. Just last week I was camping at a beach on the west coast of Ireland and happened, by chance, to see the space station pass overhead. I was really amazed at how…
How to Become an Independent World Traveler
Many of us yearn to be a traveler, the sort of person who has adventures, who brings home great travel stories, unusual photos and makes connections with people in foreign lands. Realistically however most of us have very restricted travel time and even more restricted budgets. So how do we have the adventure of a…
Time to change – again
Well, I waited until the cool light of morning, still don’t like the colour scheme in my newly designed, diy, template. I know what happened and where I went wrong. This is not the colour scheme that I had intended to use, I inadvertently made an error just before I saved my scheme last night…




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