Monthly Archives: April 2009

The weather has been better than forecast, and we have done a few beautiful day-rides in County Down. Cormac has met all of his aunts and uncles and cousins now, Irish and Australian! (except Stewart!). We will head south to … Continue reading →

It took us a day or two longer to get sorted in Dublin than we had hoped – our friendly bike shop closed on Sunday, so we couldn’t pick up the trusty steeds until Monday – thus we are leaving … Continue reading →

Dublin is cold, grim and grey today. Will spend the next day or two organising bikes, catching up with friends and Eimear, then we will head north as soon as we get sorted. Staying with Dave, which is great!

So we left Tassie a little sad…but excited about Ireland and Cairns! We think we have left our house in good hands (Jamie’s) but it was hard to leave, once we had cleaned it up to look all schmick! (Especially … Continue reading →

Regular listeners may be aware that one of my projects this year was to build us a beautiful new celerytop pine deck. It has been finished for a while but this week was approved by the building surveyors: i.e. it … Continue reading →