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Apocalypse when?
Obviously horsemen (or women) of any kind are not to be welcomed, but it seems like some of the classic ones are very busy visiting people right now. We’ve been on the receiving end of […]
Month: February 2020
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Missed the badger by a gnat’s nadger
As soon as we went, and of course after I’d relocated badgercam elsewhere, the badger returned. And they wonder why people gas them. End of.
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This aug[e|u]rs well
They said it couldn’t be done, but they were wrong. The drilling device / soothsaying blog post title was just waiting to be published, albeit messily. We’d bought a load of daffodil bulbs a few […]
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Everything But The Badger
Not, disappointingly, a band specialising in covers of songs by the Hull-based sophisti-pop duo fronted by Tracey Thorn, performed by someone looking like the frizzy-haired brock-loving guitarist from Queen, but an update on the wildlife […]
General
The festival formerly known as the “Kate O’Brien weekend”
We dipped into a couple of events in Limerick for the now-branded “Limerick Literary Festival in honour of Kate O’Brien“. Presumably KOBstock was ruled out early in the marketing meetings. Everything’s a festival now, so […]
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Badger watch
Last night a badger was caught on one of the security cameras bustling off into the undergrowth down the side of the driveway/track/ditch. The weather has been brutal here for a number of weeks, punishing […]
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Gardening season is upon us
We bought three bare-root fruit trees from Lidl the other week (€15 the lot), so thought we should probably try to plant them somewhere. This has proved a lot harder than you might think given […]