Ballycopeland Windmill

Following completion of renovation work, the windmill sails were turned on for the day on Sunday 18th August.

Whisky Galore!

I spent a brilliant few days in Scotland and spent a couple of hours at Edradour Distillery. This is a video of the visit.

It's all up in the air.

Just back from a quick break at The Watermill Lodge near Lisnaskea.

A walk along part of The Barrow Way, Ireland

We spent a pleasant few hours walking along part of The Barrow Way near Bagenalstown in Co. Carlow.

Scottish Water

Some nice scenery from Scotland

The camera on my Mavic Pro drone has been repaired

Carlow/Kilkenny by Mavic

Blue Lough

Returning to the car park from Blue lough in the Mourne Mountains

Panorama

Inishowen Peninsula,  Co. Donegal

photo taken near the Eddie Fullerton Dam

John F Kennedy Arboretum, New Ross,

Co. Wexford

Loch Tay, Scotland showing The Crannog

Carlow

Behold the Lights of Cranley

View from The Forge b&b in Co. Kilkenny

2018 teaser

Unknown location 

£20 to anyone who can tell me the location of this restful little chair! 

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow

Before

After

Hurricane Ophelia took down my tree, so I turned it into a 'feature'

Gift wrapped

My new car has finally arrived complete with gift-wrap. I'm picking it up next week

Yes we have some tomatoes

Big ones, little ones, rough ones, smooth ones, lumps and bumps, they don't look like Tesco's but they taste a hundred times better. Varieties include Marmande, Black Krim, Sungold and Alicante

And, while you're reading, here's a cat in a cupboard

Seven and a half miles

I'm trying to get some weight off to help the diabetes so I've started doing longer walks again. Average distance is 4 or 5 miles but I pushed the boat out today with a 7 1/2 mile walk to Groomsport and back. Here's the photos

Dead cats

Here are a couple of photos of our new cats, They're not really dead, they just look that way

Smudge

Brogan

Garden 2017

Things are going well again this year. Here's the raised bed, with the Belfast sink mini-pond at the front