I love this photograph. It was loaned to me by brother Joe who got the loan of it from cousin Joe and I am going to make a few copies of it to share around the family. The little girl is my Aunt Mary, the same Mary who died recently. The boy is one of her many brothers. I'm not certain which one. Maybe Dessie or Cathal, both of whom emigrated to Australia, and are the only two of my father's ten siblings still living. The man in the background might be my grandfather but I'm not sure of that either.I love the photograph because it is so informal, because the children are wearing their everyday clothes and because of the little calf. They were farm kids after all. I also love the fact that both children's faces are so familiar to me because they resemble so many other family... Similar posts

Coming out of the allotments today I stopped to pick a bunch of lilacs which are growing wild.There are lilac bushes in full bloom everywhere as this year they have not had to contend with wind and rain and are enjoying the sunshine.They are in my porch and filling it with their heady scent.My next door neighbour on the plot, Angela, taking a break from painting the shed.The last few days have been in the 20's and it is better than a foreign holiday pottering in the sunshine.Kevin and myself spent hours out there again,it really is a time warp where the hours fly by.The major job on today's agenda was making a new cage for the brassicas.The yard long beans have given up the ghost at this point so I took most of the bamboo canes and they will have to scramble up whats left as best they... Similar posts

The BBC reporting that the BBC Trust has said the BBC is doing a grand job:BBC news coverage of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales has "significantly improved", the BBC Trust says.It follows a review published in 2008, in which the BBC was criticised for "falling short of its own high standards" and failing to meet its core purpose of helping inform democracy. Since then, the number of... Similar posts

Michelle the Obama in CNT Colours. Is a Big Disgrace!!Far be it from me to begrudge anyone the desire to want to come to glorious beautiful holy España, since because why wouldn't they? but it is one thing to have the desire and is another thing for them to be allow to satisfy their desire, especially if they are foreing. We are being told in the paper this week that Michelle the Obama is coming to Marbella for a holidays with one of her children, Sasha, but that the Antichrist Barack the Obama will be stay at home to enjoy his 49th birthday in peace and quiet and sacrificing goats. Sasha will fit right in, I am espect, because she is have a Russian name, and these days Marbella is fill-up with Russian Mafia and Oligarchs who are all call things like Sasha, Natasha, Alyosha, Gallosha,... Similar posts

The green post box campaign continues apace as the O'Neill County gets a new shade for its post boxes.Dozens of more post boxes have been returned to their national shade of green in the past week with the republican youth movement Ógra Shinn Féin claiming they are, "harmonising post boxes across Ireland, providing a public service by saving An Phoist a lot of work and money as we approach Irish unity."Only last week Tyrone Ógra reported that they had begun a fresh drive to 'green' the post boxes of the historic republican county, grabbing the headlines in the local media.The campaign has picked up further momentum with more and more Tyronians waking up to the welcome sight of a green post box.(Loughmacrory, Co. Tyrone) A Tyrone Ógra spokeperson said,"Ógra Shinn Féin has been... Similar posts