Category Archives: Personal

We’re travelling later this evening from home in Sligo to Tullamore, Co Offaly for the Phoenix Festival. Lots of hot air balloons will be gliding silently in the skies – the weather forecast looks great for the weekend. 

I went to give blood  last week. I knew that it had been quite some time since my last visit, but I was really surprised that it was 1995 since the last 8th pint donation. Obviously, after leaving Dublin, updating … Continue reading →

Yesterday evening, I was lucky enough to catch a photograph of a Hummingbird hawkmoth in the back garden.   These are pretty unusual visitors to the North West of Ireland (Sligo) – they are more at home in southern european … Continue reading →

Some weeks back, I got a bit of a shock when an old workhorse machine, stony grey in colour and shouting “retire me” in a thin, high pitched whine from its power supply, finally decided to euthanase itself.

I’ve recently had reason to revisit my engineering/work journals from the past few years, and they are a revelation. Like school copy books, its fun to look back and see what WAS your life like back in 1992 – a … Continue reading →

Even after a refreshing and long awaited break over the Christmas period, it feels good to be back in harness. We travelled to Co Offaly for the New Year to stay with Gráinne’s brother and family – her parents and … Continue reading →