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Spring 2014 

Spring is a very special time of the year!

And it is quite amazing how it suddenly seems to appear!

One day the trees are bare, the woods and the gardens are bereft of colour, the birds are looking pretty woe-begone ... then in the space of a few days all has changed!

In these times in which we live however, Spring seems not quite so reliable as in days of yore!

It seems to "come and have a look" and then withdraw for a day or three .. before returning with added enthusiasm - and this procedure can be…

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Tennis 

It’s Wimbledon time again ... each year about this time, a big tennis tournament takes place in London, which lasts for two weeks.  Whether you have any interest in Tennis or not, you will likely hear and see quite a lot about this tournament if you happen to be in UK or Ireland … in fact, you could be forgiven for thinking this is the only Tennis tournament that takes place on earth …

When we were growing up on the Ryan Road, Wimbledon always seemed to coincide with cleaning up around the outside of the…

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House session 

I just came in from a “House Session” … trad music and songs in the company of old and good friends and musicians, four hours or so - with a short break for a drop of tay … the way I first heard and got to love traditional music.  I have no idea how many tunes we played or the names of half of them ,,, and it doesn’t matter in the slightest.  Fiddles, banjos, accordion, whistles, bodhran – all very different instruments  getting along very well with each other … a lot to be learned from Music …

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Where does the time GO??? 

I am speechless!

Well, nearly - no point being speechless if you are trying to write a "blog" !!!

I can't believe how quickly the  time has disappeared since I first thought about writing a blog - and now!!

And I suppose it didn't really "disappear" - rather it was "occupied" by life's wonders and vagaries, which were so distracting - and obviously exciting - as to make me think a big block of TIME had simply vanished ... well, at least distracting ...

Of course I don't even begin to assume that I could…

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Somebody said ... 

Somebody said it is a good idea to write a Blog .... I know little of blogging but I'll give it a go and see what happens!