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I’m getting very tardy here lately. 12 days since I last posted something and even then that was mainly a copy and paste job. I could write about the weather but we have been relatively lucky down here. I’m beginning to think the town is radioactive because it was snowing everywhere within a two mile [...]

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.

I missed out on getting the 9th seat on Youghal Town Council at the final count by 93 votes after the final count. But I’m not half as disappointed as you might think I should be! Given that I was only selected as a candidate just 5 weeks before the election meant that I would [...]

The last two months have been an absolute blur. All of April was spent preparing for my exams the last of which was on the 7th of May. From the 8th of May I was out pounding the pavement as much as possible. I’m now into my fourth and final week canvassing and althoughI’ve covered [...]

My replacement iPhone arrived yesterday so I was able to put into use an idea that I had. I use an application on it called Trails which I was going to use to track last nights canvassing. Well here is the result on a screenshot from Google Earth. Unfortunately Google currently don’t have high resolution [...]

My election literature arrived yesterday as you can see on the left. Canvassing will begin this weekend although only at a relative snails pace as I have exams next week and the week after. From the 7th of May however I will have the best part of four weeks to start pounding the pavement which I plan [...]

Things are pretty hectic at the moment. Lucas and Sylwia are in Poland until tomorrow and I’ve been busy trying to get my head focused on studying for my exams which are coming up at the end of April. I will be finished on the 7th of May and I haven’t a clue what I [...]

Spotted these two Black-headed Gulls the other day while out walking with Lucas. The one on the right of the picture really only has one leg. The primary school I went to is just a little further down the road from where that photo was taken and at lunch time there would be hoards of [...]