Monthly Archives: March 2018

Spring Discount

by | 30th March 2018

After a very long and snowy winter and with the clocks going forwards, surely spring is on its way? The days are certainly getting longer. Over winter, it is easy to huddle away in a cosy, warm home, with comforting winter food. As spring arrives and the sun comes out, it is nice to get […]

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Irelands Haunted Landscapes

by | 5th March 2018

“My yesterday’s walk with me. They keep step, they are grey faces that peer over my shoulder.”, William Golding The haunting effect of a landscape has been described by the cultural geographers Maddern and Adey as the nagging presence of an absence, and it is perhaps this (amongst other things) that gives Ireland’s landscape its […]

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A Walk Near Corlea, Longford

by | 4th March 2018

The trip up to Corlea Trackway, near Keenagh, was meant to be an opportunity to take some pictures of the wooden iron age road unearthed from the bog after two thousand years and now housed in the centre built especially to preserve it. We could have had a coffee or tea in the café and […]

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Friendship Bracelets

by | 4th March 2018

Search the internet for the phrase ‘friendship bracelets’ and you get many different bracelets designed using different materials (silver, beads, yarn etc). For me though, I grew up in an era where the craze was to create bracelets using yarn. My nan used to knit and grandad used to make latch hook rugs, so I […]

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The Art of Crochet

by | 4th March 2018

Crochet is a wonderful and slightly addictive craft that creates materials using a wide variety of thread and one crochet hook (often mistaken for knitting, that uses two needles). Even Queen Victoria crocheted, which included eight handcrafted scarves which she presented to eight outstanding men that were in the Second Boer War. I believe some […]

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