ByMiriam
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…
Today is Blog Action Day and this year – yip, apparently it’s a yearly event where bloggers are asked to all write about a particular social issue in order to help raise awareness, I must have missed it last year – I digress, this year it’s to highlight climate change and encourage people to increase…
We have another referendum approaching and we have the opportunity to make our opinions count. I have always felt that it is important to vote. There have been times when I truly wonder whether it really makes any difference to vote, the same policies seem to be in place no matter which of the parties…
Over the last few weeks I have been slowly doing the almost yearly job of moving compost from one bin to the next. Our compost gets turned twice before it is considered ready for use. We have five compost bins and of course there is a system for how we utilise them. We use a…
There is a large number of aliens plants growing wild in Ireland. I guess that really the definition of alien plant depends on far back you wish to go – if you go back far enough even Ash trees are alien. In recent years there has been an increase in alien plants growing wild due…
Living on the hill we don’t get trick or treaters wandering past our door on Halloween night so I very much enjoyed this little story sent to me by a friend who is living in Toronto, Canada – We had one gang of trick-or-treaters tonight, a bunch of girls (I think), aged about eleven or…
Last weekend we went van camping again, this time to the All Ireland Permaculture Gathering which was hosted this year by wonderful farmers in Co Tipperary. There was so much work done by members of the organising group before any of us arrived. Large tents and marquees were set up for the many workshops that…