Lughnasadh is the name given to the Irish harvest festival and in fact is the Irish word for August. Many years ago The Ban Chéile* and I decided to rename the cottage in the country Lughnasadh (pronounced loo-na-sa) for a number of reasons – 1) We didn’t like the name it came with “St. Jude’s”, 2) It was a major fixer upper and at times it seemed like “lunacy” to try (get it?) and 3) we planned to spend our Autumn years there when we retire. The name stuck, but only in our heads. The name on the gate stayed and a lot of work took place over the intervening years, but Lughnasadh remained the name for the final product rather than the current cottage. Operation Lughnasadh got underway for real at the start of last autumn…