What is that cold, wet stuff falling from the clouds? What is this chill I feel? And where has the sun gone? After weeks of lovely weather in May, it’s as if I’ve never known a rainy, grey day. Thirty years of living in West Cork, and all it takes […]

And so here we are. It’s May. (“Tra la! It’s May!” sang Guinivere in the musical Camelot. The lusty month of May!) In the over thirty years that I’ve lived in West Cork, the month of May has always been pretty good. Sometimes it’s been spectacular. This time of the […]

Excuse my language but WTF have they been doing to the hedgerows? It’s Armageddon out there. Except that Armageddon is defined as the last battle between good and evil before the Day of Judgement, and if the hedgerows represent Good and the machines shredding them represent Evil – then it’s […]

It’s halfway through January so I expect that most of us are back to whatever it was we were doing before we promised ourselves to change. ‘New Year, New You’ is but a faint memory.  In fact, by the time you read this you probably have seen the resolutions you […]

After a warm, dry and sometimes spectacularly sunny extended Autumn we got all the winter weather at once. Temperatures plummeted and the snow covered the landscape in a soft white duvet. No sooner had the snow started to melt than storm Bert made its entrance with a red alert for […]