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Happy new year
Another huge gap in blog entries, and this time I’m not going to back-fill them. The past couple of years have been pretty brutal, and I’m not mad keen to re-visit them more than I […]
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The gift that keeps on giving (up)
Like the zombie mink of Denmark, the blog returns to life once more to herald the dawn of a brand new year. The delay was to check whether or not 2021 was a significant upgrade […]
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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, […]
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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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It’s Baile an Bhuinneánaigh
A very weak attempt to hide the fact that I’m posting some more photos of Ballybunion. Sorry not sorry.
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Doolin 2019
Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond our control, we weren’t able to spend the weekend of the Doolin Folk Festival in the trailer tent. This meant that we missed out on being cold, wet and uncomfortable […]
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It’s not the leaving of Liverpool that grieves me…
We set off from Harrogate at 4pm, heading for Liverpool and the overnight ferry to Dublin. I’d spent a fair few hours re-working our trailer tent to make it more suitable for carrying cargo (and […]
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Doolin Writers’ Weekend 2019
This was my second year of attending the weekend, and I had learnt a couple of important lessons from the initial visit. Firstly, if a workshop looks like it won’t be useful / engaging enough […]
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A hawk flaps its wings…
The latest efforts from the US to move us smoothly into WW3 have disturbing knock-on effects around the world, some very close to the bog in fact. The dystopian world in which we now live, […]
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Bread and avalanches
Ireland’s being going bread-mad – apparently it’s the thing to be worried about running out of in the treacherous weather. There have been articles devoted to baking your own, memes on the internet, etc. Actually, […]