All day long the sun toiled hard to burn away the stubborn clouds. Hiding below, in the gloom, life continued in a manner familiar to anyone living through an Irish winter. In the distance, defiant at last, a few lucky homes emerge from the mist to glimpse the setting sun.
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The more I learned about the European Robin the more I wondered where it came in the running relative to the movie character’s actual angry bird, the Northern Cardinal. Apparently, the friendly and inquisitive robin red breast, one of Ireland’s favourite birds, can develop quite a temper when confronted with another red bearing antagonist. Fortunately […]
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For most of the day we found ourselves shrouded in fog with a landscape of frosted green and white vanishing into the mist less than 50 meters away in all directions. Where the sun should have been was a vast brightness while somewhere above a hint of blue suggested we had been under a receding […]
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2023 is now part of history and was our last year in Australia before embarking on a new adventure. I have been to Ireland many times before but coming here to live is completely different. This is a move my wife and I have been planning for many years. For Jennifer it is a long […]
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Adnane, sits perfectly still in the darkness for what must seem like some strange dream. Meanwhile all around him there is a flurry of activity as artists with torches and wands of coloured light paint in the scene. White light’s painted where the colours should be real, elsewhere we used colour to create the surreal. […]
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