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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 […]
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Autumn on the bog
Despite the best efforts of a number of battling technologies, the blog has been resurrected. Here are some pictures of birds and trees – autumn is an excellent time of year on the bog.
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New camera installed
To keep an eye on one of the less-boggy fields, I installed a wireless camera up a tree. It’s solar powered, and reports to an outdoor access point that’s cunningly concealed somewhere else (actually quite […]
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The well water testing results are in…
Those of a nervous disposition, look away now… Test Result Interpretation Total coliform count / 100ml sample 240 ? Faecal coliform count / 100ml sample 23 ? Conductivity (us/cm) 692 ? pH 7.07 ? Total […]
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Quick trip to the bog
Before making our way up to Doolin for the weekend, we had a couple of nights in our house on the bog. It was great to see it again, especially since we’d left it all […]
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Who let the dogs out? Pretty much everyone…
The security cameras aren’t getting a heavy workout of late, beyond dogs roaming from ‘next door’. Every now and then I’ll call them via the camera’s speaker capability, whereupon they run like hell. Hours of […]
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It’s so easy from above / you can really see it all…
Ben Folds lyric there, just for a change. The Google maps satellite view of the bog got updated this year – it’s now several years on from the previous version, and shows signs that we’ve […]
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A heap of tyres
In case you were wondering what a ridiculous number of tyres looked like, here you go. Note: this is the first in a series of back-filled posts to cover the months I’d neglected to write […]
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Flowers and blackberries…
There’s still plenty of interest on and around the bog… it’s definitely the end of the summer (such that it was), but the non-rainy evenings are fine for walking still. The spiders seem to be […]