March has the potential to be the greenest month with everything gearing up to go after a long wet and grey winter. The grass, the nettles, the kale and broccoli, the leaves on the trees – they are all ready to burst into full green mode and are so welcome. […]
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A beautiful wine moment, around a bottle of red Burgundy, inspired a birthday cycling trip with my sister. The route, from The Lonely Planet Guide to Cycling in France, was chosen based on easy terrain, the odd hill just to give us a bit of a challenge, and, crucially, wonderful scenery, pristine, […]
There was much discussion in the pub last week about the weather, as usual, particularly the flooding in Co. Wexford. Some suggested that pearl mussels and slugs were to blame, a view also expressed in the newspapers by an Enniscorthy town councillor, though he talked about “pearls and snails”. So […]
