I heard recently that the American motor industry is in trouble, I have to admit to not feeling a whole lot of sympathy, after all these guys have not gone out of their way to change the typical gas guzzling large American car into a more economical model. Apparently there is no connection between greedy…
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…
I have been preoccupied lately and not paid much attention to the web so tonight I have been doing some catching up and reading some favourite blogs. It was like a winters evening, I lit the fire about 5pm, himself put a chicken in the oven. I read as the wind blew around us and…
I was web-surfing for while today waiting for the rain to stop – I have a few sacks of montbretia to plant out thanks to a green fingered friend who was tidying up her garden. I noticed a headline on a news report that looked promising – “Ryan announces €500m investment for electricity sector” –…
As I write I can hear rain drops pitter patter-ing on the roof light, it’s a lovely sound at night when you are warm and cozy and do not need to go outside. We did get some really nice weather week before last and made good use of it too! A couple of friends from…
