Speculation, Fact and Fiction

Well, there are this summer, what with the warm and wet conditions. We're just back from a fortnight's holiday in Ireland. so that's been Tayto crisps and Club Orange to drink and Brennan's family pan bread in its waxed paper wrapper. Because there's no point going somewhere new and just having the same things as home, not as far as my sons are concerned anyway.

We spent the first week with family in County Laios, relaxing, reading and going to the cinema to see firstly the new Harry Potter movie, Order of the Phoenix (enjoyable, sound job made of adapting a most unwieldy book in movie terms) and then The Simpson's Movie (hilarious and most enjoyable, not something I was necessarily expecting since I've become increasingly tired of the endless repeats on the telly).

Then we went to County Clare for a week in a holiday cottage just near Milltown Malbay. Comfortable, newly fitted out, everything you need for a family of four - if anyone wants details slide over to my website and email me. The owners farm just up the road and are friendly and welcoming, as are their dogs. Which aren't, as the sons initially speculated, some rare breed of western Irish cattle dog. But the product of a local corgi getting friendly with a visiting English border collie. So, corgi shaped with collie head and coat!

( There's lots to see in County Clare )

And then it was back home via on overnight stop in Laois and the ferry to Fishguard. Yesterday was sorting post and email and laundry and a couple of time-critical tasks scheduled before I went away. Today is going into town for domestic administrative stuff. Hopefully I can get back to real work tomorrow!