House
It’s curtains for you
In case you thought that the whole renovation project had hit the buffers, I present you with the work of art that is a curtain pole attached to a wall: Once you’ve finished gazing in […]
Bog
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 […]
General
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 […]
Holiday
Festival of writing and ideas: Day 3
A gentle start with Julian Barnes (author of loads of books I really like) and Paul Muldoon (Pulitzer Prize-winner for poetry) chatting about life in a very unstructured fashion. An excellent continuation of the day’s […]
Holiday
Festival of writing and ideas: Day 2
11-12 noon: Dalrymple’s India. An hour of William Dalrymple presenting some highlights of the last five years of his work on the book “The Anarchy: The Fall of the Mughal Empire and the Rise of […]
Holiday
Festival of writing and ideas: Day 1
Straight off the Dublin ferry at 5am, we made our way through the quiet streets towards Boris. We weren’t allowed to show up until early afternoon, but thankfully friends in Kildare were awake enough that […]
General
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 […]
House
Both sides, now
Another time lapse vid – this time a view onto the front of the house. This camera is mounted on a pole and gets a bit more battered by the elements (hence the rain drop […]
House
Time lapse video from a security camera
Last year I setup a python script to run every day at 2pm to grab a still frame from some of my security cameras around the outside of the house. Today I mashed them together […]
Holiday
Vienna holiday – (Egon) Schiele Take a Bow
Had to do it, sorry. Vienna is full of Egon Schiele‘s paintings. We saw a lot of them on our first day in the city at the Leopold Museum, and then in pretty much every […]