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CHARLES FORT
How often do you get the chance to have a day out with your Grown Up Children – especially when there are no grandchildren involved? Not too often in our case and so we were delighted when last month, The Ban Chéile* and I teamed up with GUC No. 4 and No. 6 for a trip to Charles Fort near Kinsale in County Cork. It’s less than an hours drive from the country place and we just wanted a couple of hours out in the sunshine doing what tourists do. Charles Fort proved to be a great idea and since we were all armed with cameras (No. 6 is an avid photographer and blogger – paparali.com) it turned into a bit of a “shoot out” with lots of lighthearted photos of both the fantastic fort and the…
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COUNTRY ROADS
My old pal Denver is 12 years of age (84 in dog years) and despite the down at heel look on his face – it’ll stop soon if you ignore it – he’s actually over the moon about going on his road trip today. Unlike other migrating species he heads south for the summer and loves it. It doesn’t seem so long ago when he used to first scramble into the boot as a pup and then later bound in when he was fully grown. Today Denver managed to get his front legs into the car by himself but the back legs were my job. Dog years didn’t really mean anything to me when I was young and how could they, I had little to measure them against, but now I’m one of the Golden Guys I really do…
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I’LL BE MISSING YOU…
My little buddy will be zooming off on her next adventure to Dubai in a day or so and the photo blogging will heat up then “for real” – as she might say. It’s strange how the world has shrunk over the past twenty years or so. When I was her age the notion of spending a summer in Dubai would have been the stuff of high adventure, but today it’s like dropping in on friends in Galway for a few weeks. You hear more and more people saying they have a cousin, sister, aunt in Dubai or Abu Dhabi and they’re on their way out or on their back from visiting them. Social media of course closes the gap a little too and I suppose I’m going to have to succumb to using Skype if I…
