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We recently visited Ulster to take my daughter to University there. We know the area so well, have been there many times, but the wonderful thing about the place is that it always shows us something new. On the road between the small village of Armoy and Gracehill Golf Club… Some of these trees are nearly three hundred years old. If […]
MoreI posted last week about the awful dangers water can pose, rivers and lakes, lochs and broads, oceans and seas. But water can also give great pleasure if treated with respect. Afavourite book of mine is “Wind in the Willows” by Kenneth Graham “The River,” corrected the Rat. “And you really live by the river? What […]
MoreWhen I was teaching as part of the English syllabus, students had to debate and discuss. I tried to choose topics which they would find interesting and engaging and have some opinion on. I tried all the usual topics, capital punishment, abortion, student grants, religion… I tried local issues, what should happen to the Tropicana, should Weston have a skate-park, should they build the Severn barrage… I tried […]
MoreMy children are getting ready to go off to university, my son for his second year at Salford University, my daughter for her first year in… Ulster! We’ll be flying with her across the Irish Sea to Belfast tomorrow, then staying for a few days at our beloved Portballintrae before she starts at the Coleraine […]
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Lois Elsden 