Technology, church music, bicycles, and life in Ireland
Dublin is my adopted home. I’ve lived here since I moved to Ireland in 2007.
Some people in Ireland consider the 8th December as the ‘official’ start of the Christmas season. Why is that? Because it was traditionally the time when people started preparing for Christmas, and a time when people from the countryside visited Dublin to do Christmas shopping. But why the 8th of December? Well, it’s the Feast … Read more
What else would you do on New Year’s Day except to get up in the early hours of the morning, while it’s still dark, and take a hike up into the Dublin mountains to see the first sun rise of the new year? 2020 has been a horrible year, what with the COVID-19 thing, and … Read more
Some building works started on Dodder View Road in Rathfarnham last week, and I was curious to know why they were happening. Dodder View Road doesn’t appear on Google Maps for some reason, but it’s a section of the R112 road that runs alongside the River Dodder from the Rathfarnham Shopping Centre / Springfield Avenue … Read more
I’ve been thinking lately that it would be great if Dodder View Road would be permanently closed to traffic. The route – shown as R112 on most maps – runs alongside the River Dodder between Terenure and Rathfarnham. Along it’s 1.2km length, between the Rathfarnham Shopping Centre at Fairways and Rathfarnham Road, there are no … Read more
I often pass over the stepping stones on the River Dodder to access Bushy Park in Terenure. On days like today, when there’s been a lot of rain recently, I can pretty much predict that the river level will be high, and make the stepping stones flooded and unusable. But other days it’s harder to … Read more
I’m very lucky to live near to Bushy Park in Terenure, Dublin. It’s a great park with loads of amenities, and is also a park full of interesting places to explore. One of the parts of the park I love the most is the area alongside the River Dodder between Terenure and Rathfarnham. In this … Read more