Handmade Quilt for Auction

A Fundraising  Table Quiz for the Dr Martin Day Centre will be held  in the Cotton Mill Portlaw on next Friday the 23rd of March at 8.15 pm. A table of 4  is 20 Euro or 5 Euro per person and also a raffle for some great prizes. On the night we will also hold an Auction for a beautiful handmade patchwork quilt. After the quiz we will have music by D.J. Alan;  so please come along to support this excellent service for the older members of our community to raise badly needed funds.

Cards every Tuesday night at 8pm in the Dr Martin Centre; all welcome come along; cash prizes.

DAFFODILS . . .

Taken about a week ago, it's life, and that of many others, was short lived,

due to the weight of the recent snow 

Fortunately, all nearby miniature ones survived!

-    oooOooo    -

I am pleased to say I was able to visit places associated with
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
while on a holiday in Cumbria a short few years ago.
More about that another time.

THREE DAYS LATER . ..

Three days after the heavier snowfall of Wednesday, February 28th and Thursday, March 1st:  

Marion O'Neill & Breda Gorman enjoying a walk in Malcomson Square,
after being house-bound for some days.

The former Mayfield House and Tannery Lodge.

Malcomson Square

Malcomson Square

The Green Island bridge abutment, with St. Patrick's Church at centre top.

St. Patrick's Church from |Bridge Street.

The river-side walk.

Mallard on the riverside walk, anticipating food.

PAGEVIEWS to date

                     

                                                                                                                                                        Shortly before midnight last night, March 3rd (2018), the number of page-views on this site passed the 200,000 mark, and from six months after the launching of this website they came from 130 countries. All statistics  for the previous six months were lost in a computer crash. These records have to be viewed daily and recorded.

In the last seven days, page-views from the top ten countries were as follows:

Canada - 197;  Ireland - 187; Ukraine - 128;  Russia - 106;  USA - 57;  China - 14; U.K. - 12;  Germany - 7;  Australia - 4 and France - 4.

Browsers used during past week were as follows:

Google Chrome - 50%;  Internet Explorer - 21%;  Firefox - 15%;  Safari - 7%  Opera - 1 % and Bing Preview - 1%.  Other browsers at less  than 1%.  These statistics vary considerably from the statistics for 'all time', when Internet Explorer was the most popular browser @ 31%,  Chrome @ 29% and Firefox @ 23%.

These statistics, and even more, are all available to the site owner at the press of a few buttons!

The ever-changing page-views counter can always be seen near bottom right side of the opening page.  

The graphic accompanying this 'post' shows Clonagam Church early on December 21st, 2012. 

St. Patrick's Church Announcement

A single left-click on image will show an enlarged copy.

THE STATUS SNO!

The scene has changed considerably . . . 

Little hope of heading out today. 

Height of snow on this table is 23 cm (9 inches),

and still snowing. 

Drifts, all over the place, are at least one metre high!
..........................................
A short while later it was 28 cm (11 inches).
That was hours ago, and it never stopped snowing since!
Drifts in parts of the S.E. are now reported over to be up to and over two metres high.
Latest warning says further NEW heavy snow arriving along East coast tonight.  

A Robin in February . . .

This guy follows me endlessly around the garden

and will come into the kitchen if and when he's allowed!

He has  a less-assertive companion; male or female I don't know,

as they look identical!

His favourite food is uncooked Flahavans' Porridge Oatlets,

which he demands a few times each day!
This photo taken on Feb. 21st last.