It’s happening again. Every year around this time, seemingly out of nowhere, comes an irresistible compulsion to attend to the needs of the homestead. And as I have said before it is a totally primal, subliminal, unconscious thing. It quite clearly has to do with our inherent rhythms, our ancient propensity to tie up loose… Read more »
Month: October 2017
EVE Harvest Sensory Garden, Kildare Town
It’s happening again. Every year around this time, seemingly out of nowhere, comes an irresistible compulsion to attend to the needs of the homestead. And as I have said before it is a totally primal, subliminal, unconscious thing. It quite clearly has to do with our inherent rhythms, our ancient propensity to tie up loose… Read more »
Composter
Here is my first harvest of compost from this nifty revolving composter that I made from a large plastic drum. It is set on a timber frame to facilitate rotation. It incorporates a tubular steel spine running through the middle which is bolted at both ends and has a large steel handle for turning. Material… Read more »
Back Garden North Dublin
We are overhauling a sloped back garden in North Dublin. A lot of overgrown and unwanted vegetation was cleared, an old shed and deck removed. We are constructing a new raised deck with storage underneath, a new set of steps, boardwalk, lower level deck and storage structure / garden room. The block perimeter wall will… Read more »
Hands Off The Hedge
We hear a lot about our architectural heritage and the lengths to which the appropriate bodies routinely have to go to protect it from soulless development. I cast my mind back to the famous Frank McDonald book The Destruction of Dublin which was published in 1985. In the book McDonald chronicled the systematic disfigurement of… Read more »
Milton Keynes at 50
A very important anniversary falls this year. It’s not one you are going to hear an awful lot about. There won’t be any military parades up and down O’Connell Street, wreaths laid or lapel adornments worn. It will slip by unnoticed by all but the sad few, amongst whom I must include myself. Ladies and… Read more »
What I Found In a Thousand Towns
I have a healthy obsession with an American singer songwriter by the name of Dar Williams. I first saw her perform in 1996 in the Jazz Café in Camden Town in North London, again a few years later in the Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts and most recently a couple of years ago in the… Read more »