House
Levelling the bathroom floor
Another floor that dropped away for some reason. Concrete and screed to the rescue… you can also see I’ve put a mirror up above the sink, which is cunningly reflecting the shower to confuse matters.
General
Kerry, so cool and so clever
One Sunday (well, probably quite a lot of other days too, really) we had a moment of crisis, wondering what the heck we were doing in Ireland. The solution on this occasion was to drive […]
House
Sitting room flooring down
The sitting room floor was a tricky customer – if it were any less of a level playing field, it’d be the US healthcare system. Levelling this involved digging up old concrete where possible, filling […]
House
We are ready, we are ready for the floor
Title courtesy of my favourite Hot Chip song. So we’d been getting by with just those €5 black cardboard things over the concrete floors, but that was actually pretty depressing after not very many weeks, […]
Holiday
Hello sunshine
Some light (in every sense) relief from the bog came in the form of a trip to Portugal and Spain for 10 nights. This is going to be one long post – I can’t be […]
Bog
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 […]
Bog
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 […]
General
A hard rain’s a-gonna fall…
We got out to Ballybunion before the downpour this morning. Lots of wading birds, few people.
Bog
The fuchsia’s bright
Photos from the past few days around the bog. Some misty mornings, some golden hour evenings…
Uncategorised
I believe I can Fleadh
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 […]