We popped along to the Fleadh Cheoil in Ennis this afternoon. The Fleadh is “the world’s largest annual celebration of Irish music, language, song and dance”, according to various promotional websites, and it’s quite believable […]
We were in Harrogate for the week, so checked out our favourite places and revelled in the order and comfort of our house. Favourite places in Harrogate: Bean and Bud cafe. The best coffee in […]
We went to Carlow (south-east Ireland) for the weekend of the 10th June as there was the http://festivalofwritingandideas.com/ on, and quite a few interesting-sounding speakers. The first talk we attended was with Mary Robinson (former president of […]
The main room has been plastered now – the external walls were dry lined first to help out a bit. It looks much smarter, but we now need to wait another week for the plaster […]
We’re only half-way through turf-stacking still – it’s hard work, unfortunately. We’re getting better at it, but at the moment it’s unlikely that either of us would be up for participating in the destruction of […]
We now have a bed and a washing machine. Tremendous improvement all round. The washing machine took me ages to find – I wanted one that would work fine gravity-fed from the header tank 3 […]
As soon as the turf has been cut by the machine, it’s sitting in long snakes in the wind and sun, forming a crust on the outside. It then needs to be divided into sods, […]
The cutter arrived yesterday… I was sat minding my own business in the house, then heard a tremendous rumbling noise approaching. At first, I thought it was a helicopter landing, but having dashed around to […]
We worked hard on the house again today, then went for a walk in the ‘garden’. It’s so undulating that it’s like a workout on a stepper (probably, not that I’ve ever tried that to […]
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