Nothing is neutral and neutral is less than nothing

"Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

Elie Wiesel - writer, Nobel laureate

Track of the day

Knowledge of Beauty by Dexy's Midnight Runners

Promo shot by Jack Hazan of Solus Enterprises

Track of the Day - from Donegal

Black Night by Moya Brennan from Signature LP

Rings a Bell - today's Happiness Experiment entry

Sitting by the lapping water of Lough Corrib at Ballinduff Bay



Gardening (in Maud's front garden, with D)



The angelus ringing

Driving rain - yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

The Burren - travelling across from Gort to Kinvara



Seeing Mark and Sadie Hand and family again (after two years) in Galway (at Maud's new home)



In driving rain, walking along the Flaggy Shore near New Quay, Co. Clare, as featured in Seamus Heaney's poem Post-script - there were indeed swans in the lake

Track of the Day from Galway

Danny Boy as interpreted by Christy Moore

But come ye back when summer's in the meadow

Magnetic moments - today's Happiness Experiment entry

Playing in the pool with D - Lahinch, Co. Clare



Magnetic Music in Doolin - picked up records by Karan Casey, Kate Rusby and a live Christy from last year at the Point



Church bells in An Leacht

The Old Country - yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Setting foot back on the Emerald Isle after more than a year - seeing my niece Orla



Starting a new book - William Boyd's new novel Restless



Playing drawing games with N on the plane - he created a terminator of Man Utd supporters