Long-time Irish KC readers might recognise that this painting of an Irish Cottage (detail shown, click for full painting) comes from the Cottage Chronicles that […]

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At the time I invited guesses.
They arrived by email, by Twitter, and by sheep.
Where in Ireland was that cottage?
Most guesses were for Connemara but […]

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For the regular readers who may be missing the chronicles of my life in an Irish cottage, here’s a few photographs from the adventure that […]

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A hazy sunny day and another whole heap of silence. Until the dog starts barking at the sheep and I start shouting at the dog.
The […]

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It’s not the Mediterranean views of yesterday morning but the relentless parade of beautiful days continues.
30 sheep are sitting on the slope of the near […]

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It’s as if God is taunting me. The insanity of leaving such a wondrous world.
There are still no clouds when the dog persuades me down […]

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The earlier you get up the longer the shadow from the mountain. By the time the sun is high enough to reach the cottage the […]

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A beautiful, perfect day, if cold, the condensation slowly going from the windows. The sea a deep blue, everything in sunshine.
Except the cottage of […]

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It’s grey, it’s cloudy, it’s misty, but it all feels different now.
I walk outside with the dog beside me and I look at the headlands, […]

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A perfect blue square through the skylight as the steps of a dog on wood wake me.
Well, not a perfect blue square; it’s a […]

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Clouds. Rain. Soft, but rain. Like a heavy dark ceiling with a light fringe that drags on the ground and hides the view.
Over the hill […]

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Rain. Beating on the roof. Cold sloppy drops, without pattern. The ones you want to come in to a hot whiskey to. With somebody. But […]

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Wake up to a blue sky everywhere.
Everywhere else that is. Over my cottage is a large dark grey slab, and it is about to […]

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The dog reacts to the tractor first, running with blanket from bed to window. For the 3rd day in a row a vehicle is coming […]

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Misty morning. Or, if you prefer, rain without wind.
Hey, the smell is gone. The kitchen/living room/dining room no longer smells of dead rodent or water […]

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The first day in almost a week that the dog doesn’t get up before me. Grey and windy outside, but judging by the sea maybe […]

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Okay then, we’ll carry on with the cottage posts.
The cottage chronicles are the first things I’ve ever done on IrishKC that I didn’t actually plan.
I’m […]

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It is Saturday, but to know that I have to look it up on the computer.
Stillness. Blue sky, blue sea, green fields, green islands.
Let’s […]

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I can’t tell anymore if it’s raining or not. It probably doesn’t matter. With no need to cycle to the village the day won’t be […]

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A bright start. Raining, but a bright kind of rain. And the winds have gone. Yes I will cycle today.
An email from the landlord tells […]

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