So is this Christmas?

I’m down in a friends place in Galway, having a quick scoot around the interweb while they put kids to bed. There’s a gang of us down for a few days of eating, country walks and whiskey by the fire. Christmas day and St. Stephenseseses was great, spend in the house of one of my [...]

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Nollaig Shona

 
Hope you all have a great Christmas, whatever you do and wherever you are. If you’re not celebrating Christmas, have a nice Thursday. My family are split in three this year. One group in their home in Switzerland and one sister and her crew and my brother are currently on an Air France jet heading [...]

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Past the point of rescue

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/americas/arctic-melt-passes-the-point-of-no-return-1576787.html

 
Looks like we might have passed that dreaded point of no return. Some pissed off polar bears and Inuits out there. Polar Bears are going to stick out like sore thumbs now against the green background of the Arctic during summer months. They can’t hide from their prey on the ice or swim along underneath [...]

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Sark, a microcosm

 
 
The island of Sark, one of channel islands which has been a self governing feudal system for hundreds of years has now become democratic following open elections last week. There are roughly 480 people living on the island. It is fiercely traditional and slow to change. And this reluctance to change had caused two brothers [...]

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Master of All Holes discovered

It must be my destiny, I feel drawn towards this thing…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7774287.stm
 
It’s millions of times the size of our poor little sun and it’s only 27,000 light years away too. That’s not that far really. I mean it’s huge. It sucks in everything, including light, probably even your thoughts and emotions.
 

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Smokey Bacon

 

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Stick your NCT up my exhaust

 
After much unfair retesting, about €500 and computers saying no, my girl has finally passed the NCT. No more of that crap for another two years… oh and the black number plates are going back on too.

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Good Deed Goes Bad Goes Good

I was down in the cesspit of ignorance that is Tesco earlier. As I walked in, a well dressed good looking smiling couple about mid 40s were handing out small flyers for the Lions Club charity. They were asking people to buy an extra item of food and donate it on the way out. Good [...]

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It gets me all emotional like

One snowy night I went out to take in a young plant into the warm house when I saw a fox, he stopped, dropped his head a bit, then carried on….

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Frosty Night Survival Kit

 
 

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