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Rock Star in Training?

Robert — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:48:11 +0000

Continuing the training theme from my last post here’s himself tuning up and getting ready to belt out a few riffs:

Server Administrator in Training

Robert — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:36:26 +0000

Himself was giving me a hand reinstall a couple of my servers today. As you can see on the monitor behind I’m starting him off relatively lightly with Windows Server 2003. Early next week we will be moving on to the Sun Solaris boxes underneath the Dell Poweredges.

Ladybird in the garden

Robert — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:53:03 +0000

The end of October is almost here but despite the evenings getting cooler and the nights closing in, our garden is still in bloom. This afternoon Lucas was pointing at something on the floor and it turned out to be a Ladybird. I picked it up and he was fascinated watching it crawl around my hand. I decided to return it to the garden and took the following shot:

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I was absolutely delighted with the colours. But regular readers may know that this is not the first time I have been playing with macro photographs in the garden. I have also taken this bumblebee and another macro of water drops on a flower.

Lucas in the garden

Robert — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:25:54 +0000

Photo of Lucas in the garden yesterday. I asked him to smile but I think he overdid it a bit!

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Another boat – The M.V. Julia, Horgans Quay, Cork

Robert — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:35:06 +0000

Edit – I’ve made a complete and utter balls up of this post. Lucas is on the bottom left of the photo. And the ship is the MS Julia not M.V.

Was up in the city today. While herself was off shopping, myself and Lucas were left to our own devices to wander about the place. Ever since it docked I have been meaning to go up and have a look at the M.V. Julia which will soon be sailing on the Cork – Swansea route.

The quality of this picture isn’t great as I took it using my N73 but you can see Lucas in his buggy on the bottom left corner for scale! Incidentally it is one of the largest ships I have seen in the city centre. Donncha has plenty of photos on his photoblog from which you can appreciate the size of it that little better.

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Boat in Harvey’s Dock, Youghal

Robert — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:25:28 +0000

I’ve been meaning to take a photo of this boat that is tied up at Harvey’s Dock here in Youghal.

Anyone notice anything odd? Click for bigger.

Japanese Booze

Robert — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:28:17 +0000

Congratulations to Tony and Saori on their recent wedding in Japan. And thanks for bringing me back some sake.

Normally this stuff comes in bottles so I was quite curious when I got these:

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I’m half way through the one with the pink flowers and it’s bloody lovely. I’m going to save the other two for another time though

The Black Valley

Robert — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:00:31 +0000

Last week a friend and I took ourselves off down to the Black Valley in Co. Kerry. The Black Valley has the distinction of being the last part of Ireland to be connected to the national electricity grid. Indeed it is still something of a black spot for telecommunications. As recently as last week a farmer living there was quoted €29,000 to have a fixed telephone line installed.

Having spent the night camped near a river we decided to set off and drive the Ring of Kerry. Some spectacular scenery around there. I have tons of photos which I have to sort through but for the moment here are some photos of the Black Valley:

And finally here is a panoramic photo: Click for full size

Traffic Jam

Robert — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:34:54 +0000

Lucas has inherited both my brother’s and my dinky toys. Click for bigger.

Hook Head Photos

Robert — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:00:19 +0000

You may have already seen my earlier post with the photo of the fossils on Hook Head. I took quite a good few photos of elsewhere on the Hook and here are some of them: