• it just takes a nudge

    I had a rather low moment on Saturday. As I’ve mentioned the weather has been dreadful and Ireland has been battered by a series of storms (with yet another one arriving – on the 175th anniversary of Oíche na Gaoithe Móire, the ‘Night of the Big Wind‘, which was so ferocious it got its own title). A person can easily get overwhelmed by the bad news and start to observe obsessively the activities of flood plains – as if any one has any control over it! I’ve been managing to keep a lid on this, but late on Saturday evening the fuse in our house blew. A terrible time for…