New Blog Style
I’m trying out a new blog style today. It seems cleaner and more readable. Reader input is appreciated. An entry about our interesting day at the Northern Ireland Assembly is forthcoming.
Back from Bundoran … With Pictures!
We arrived back from our excellent trip to the west coast of Ireland at about 6 this evening, after a long three-and-a-half hour drive from Bundoran. As you can probably tell from my earlier post, we were very happy to have made this particular side trip. The places we went were interesting and different, and the people we met were uniformly nice. First stop on Sunday was the city of […]
Blog Stat Observation
The WordPress site has a limited suite of statistics you can see for your blog, including total views per day. I’ve noticed that rather consistently the number of visits is consistently higher during the week, and drops off on the weekend. To me this says that my readers are happy enough to take a look at my posts on work time, but not interested enough to fire up their own […]
Surf City Ireland
We’ve had a great day today. We were up and out (relatively) early, made a quick-seeming traffic-free drive to Derry, where we walked around the city walls, ate lunch, got cheap and delicious hot chocolates, tea, and latte at, of all places, a McDonalds in a modern mall right outside the old city walls (it was the only place open at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday morning). From there, we had […]
Nuggets I’ve Missed
In my haste to make sure I post every day, I realize that there are many interesting or notable things we did that haven’t yet made it into the blog. So, in no particular order, here are a few nuggets that I’ve missed so far (this will also make up for the fact that the next two days will be post-free): The Boys Buy Dinner in Ballycastle: For some reason, […]
Another Slow, Rainy Day
I think we must all be feeing low on energy from our travels. Today no one really wanted to leave the house, so we all just lounged around doing various things, and didn’t get out until after 1. Suzie took the boys to the Zoo, which they say was very good, and I drove to a small commercial area and walked around. And of course it rained again off and […]
Coming — Smaller (But Full) Pictures
I realized today that those of you viewing the blog on a screen with a horizontal resolution of less than 1280 pixels (including those using the very common size of 1024 x 768) will have the right side of my posted photos cut off by the browser. Rather than asking you all to change your screen resolutions, I’ll be posting smaller pictures, which will allow you all to see all […]
Hedgehog!
Andrew came running into the house, excitedly saying, “Porcupine, porcupine, you gotta come see, there’s a porcupine out here!” So we trotted outside and over into the neighbor’s yard, where we saw, not a porcupine (porcupines are apparently a new world animal, and are much larger) but a hedgehog. This also gave us an occasion to meet our neighbors to the east, a retired couple named Ian and (I think, […]
Day Canceled on Account of Rain….
It’s rained off and on since we arrived in Ireland, but it’s never stopped us from doing anything until today. We had planned on driving back up the Antrim coast (we considered a trip to Derry/Londonderry, but decided the drive was too long. We started out a little before noon in a light drizzle/mist, which changed into a medium- and then a heavy drizzle/mist. We were searching for the cliffs […]
Irish Cows are Peaceable
For those of your who recall the horrible incident involving Luxembourgeoise cows several years ago (detailed here), I am pleased to report that Irish cows, at least those in County Antrim, appear to be peaceable and docile, if somewhat stubborn. There is a very large monument sitting on a high bluff overlooking the neighborhood in which we are staying. From our house, it looks like this: Thursday was a bright, […]