Wildlife
Hare today…
A Good Friday treat, with the arrival of a young hare to check out our daffodils.
Bog
A frosty reception
The weather got very cold again – walking on the bog, the sphagnum moss crunched underfoot, unlike its usual squelchy/springy response. The light was exceptionally bright though – the first field benefitted from it a […]
Bog
Good day, sunshine
There is plenty of mud on the ground, which is business as usual, but at least we can be out getting some fresh air and a hint of daylight.
Bog
Back to the bog
After the total non-event of Saint Patrick’s Day, we head up to the house on the bog to see how things are going. It turns out that things are going pretty well, apart from the […]
General
The empty streets of Cork
We wandered around Cork today, a surreal experience with so few people on the streets. Tomorrow is Saint Patrick’s Day, which will have no pubs open and all the parades cancelled. People are being optimistic, […]
Holiday
[Not] raining in Baltimore
As our enforced staycation continues (due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis), we headed to West Cork for the day, taking in a few towns on the way to our final stop in Bantry. There seemed […]
Holiday
Staycation day 1 – heading east to Midleton and Youghal
The COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent risk of humanity’s weakening and ultimate destruction by gangs of emancipated horses has meant that we are unable to fly off somewhere sunny for a well-earned break… so we’re going […]
Bog
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 […]
Bog
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.
Bog
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 […]