The Ladybird

Coccinellidae or ladybirds as we know them are members of the beetle family, generally red with black spots head and antennae and can be anything up to almost half an inch in size. But with over 5,000 species they can also be any colour from yellow to black. The less prettier and often referred to [...]

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For The Birds…

This has been a really unusual week from a bird point of view first I like to start with this [part of a qoute] from Neighbours.ie. I had written something myself on birds in our gardens a few days ago but I had neglected to mention the wider bird populus
It is reported that up to [...]

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Some Irish Birds…

The weather outside is absolutely freezing… it has been for some time now and today the snow fell in Ballyboughal heavy enough to concern me. With that in mind I had reckoned I should do a post on some things frost[y] related.
In what I can only describe as a sincerely very welcome press release [and [...]

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kilkenny Castle Rose Garden & Park

On Monday the 26th October 2009 I went to visit Kilkenny Castle Rose Park & Gardens. I went under the recommendation of my good friend Pat Fitzgerald.
As I walked up towards the castle I was bemused at the amount of brand spanking smooth polished granite that adorned such a vast are[n]a, complete with mirror polished [...]

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outdoor events and greeny gigs

Thanks to my good friend Joerg for some of these…. I’ve got a long list of free events all outdoors and green related that are on over the next coming days….. so go on get outside and enjoy yourselves
first up…
The Ballymun farmers market takes place on the first thursday of every month. [...]

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