Very good friends of mine … Miriam and Jimmy … live just outside of Ballinamore and have been running some very successful build your own wind turbine workshops in Ballinamore. The workshops attracted people from all over Ireland … for 3 days a week over 3 weeks. Some people stayed in Hamills Guesthouse … and [...]
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Build Your Own Wind Turbine Workshop
Posted in ballinamore, blogging, design, ecodesign, ireland, life, self build, sustainability on August 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Barter is the new Black
Posted in ballinamore, celebration, change, community, creativity, life dreaming, recession, sustainability on March 31, 2009 | 6 Comments »
My long standing readers know that our lovely recession has had an effect on us all … positive and not so positive. For me? My contract work ( and therefore my income) had reduced by over 50% I see that as both a challenge and an opportunity. In the last year I have been Money [...]
Sunday Bliss
Posted in ballinamore, blogging, Coco, community, creativity, friends, gardening, home, ireland, leisure, life, life dreaming, no dig garden, recession, singapore, sunny funny garden, sustainability, travel on March 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh Fire going … had my roast breakfast (I bake the sausages, garlic and tomato and poach the eggs) … reading the papers … many cups of tea. Coco is either chasing a ball around the lounge or sitting next to me. I always read the paper with a pen and scissors next to me [...]

