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Bits and pieces
This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!
Dark hedges
Sometimes you visit a place and you don’t have to have much imagination to find it atmospheric. Such a place is dark Hedges near Armoy in County Antrim; we visited there early afternoon on a bright through sunless day. Even with light streaming in through the trees and the occasional passing car it was an […]
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The missing gnomon
Was this a doorway, was it blocked up for some reason? It is on the south side of the church of St Nicholas in Uphill, the village where I live. I think the hole was for the gnomon of a sun-dial, the pointer which cast a shadow; you can see lines which would have indicated […]
MoreLatest copy of Scéal!
I received my latest copy of Coláiste na nGael’s newsletter, Scéal today; it’s always interesting and full of reports of what other groups have been up to and in this issue there was also an article on why Coláiste teaches Gaelic across Europe and why they promote it as a global language. I was turning […]
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Falling into the same exam trap
Am I a little dyslexic? I sometimes wonder because I have so many times totally misread something. I’m a great reader, words are my thing, and as a teacher I had to read millions and millions of words… so how is it that sometimes I still misread things? It used to happen in exams; I […]
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Lois Elsden 