29th May, 2012 - Posted by admin - No Comments
After what feels like weeks and weeks, but can’t be more than 10 days, of dry weather it’s raining a gentle rain. The garden will really appreciate it. Read More
28th May, 2012 - Posted by admin - No Comments
Potted 24 Ocimum minimum (Bush Basil) and 24 Coriandrum sativum (Coriander) today. Also sat second batch of Chinese Cabbage as first only yielded 4 out of 10 plants. Kale and a third batch of Phaseolus vulgaris (Dwarf French Bean) hoping to add to the 9 already in situ in raised bed from previous batches were » Read More
3rd March, 2012 - Posted by admin - No Comments
I attended today’s poetry reading by Paula Meehan and Joseph Woods as support in the Old Ground hotel in Ennis as part of the Ennis Bookclub Festival. It was great to meet zpaula again after so many years. Last time I saw her was in John MacNamee’s gaff in Chamber Court sometime in 1986. Chamber » Read More
7th January, 2012 - Posted by admin - No Comments
You can argue that the changing year is only a date change on the calendar but that would be simplistic. The new year is psychologically significant in that it gives us the opportunity to “start again” and do things differently if we so chose after the mid-Winter lull. I just love Christmas – not for » Read More
19th December, 2011 - Posted by admin - No Comments
Fantastic reading by Noel Harrington at Clare Three-Legged Stool Poets in Glor on Saturday. If you weren’t there you missed out. Read More