In National schools all over Ireland when I was a kid (there were no dinosaurs) we used to have to write “What I did on my summer holidays” type exercises. We were gently prodded to find more interesting ways to say things like “I went to my friend Sheila’s house and then we went to…
Category: Wildflowers
Cadamstown – amanitas, brittlegills a giant’s grave and the Silver river
Sunday was grayer than I was anticipating, but on an excellent suggestion I went in search of some fast flowing water and some trees in Cadamstown. When I arrived there was that loose swarming of hikers hastily dragging their hiking shoe heel up or tying waterproofing around waists en route to their meeting point in…
Have camera, will travel (puffballs, inkcaps and wild flowers)
Today is being a little odd. Maybe clacking along on the keyboard for a bit will reveal something or maybe I’ll just witter on about a photograph or two. Consider this a miscellany of random bits and pieces stuck together with selotape and chewing gum, even more than usual. There is an old road reasonably…
Biodiversity Go! (Irish wildflowers)
I briefly played both Ingress and Pokemón Go. I may even have deliberately gone km out of my way just to get new portals once upon a time. Imagine how my eldest son reacted when I told him we were taking a spin out to a totally different part of the county so that I,…