Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyaltov Pass Incident, Donnie Eichar
I first came across the Dyaltov Pass incident some time ago on Wikipedia, probably by following a link on the Wiki page “List of unusual deaths” The incident saw the…
Category: the world of childhood
The Berenstain Bears and the Moral Minefield – The Dabbler, Jan 2015
This piece arose from reading about two very heated responses to the Berenstain Bears series of children’s books and cartoons. The posthumous “Good riddance” to Mrs Berenstain in particular struck me…
McDaid’s Football Special Special Euro 2016 edition at the Happy Camper Cafe, Glenveagh, Donegal
A little late for Ireland’s participation in Euro 2016 – here are some examples of McDaid’s legendary drink in its natural habitat. Taken just by the wonderful Happy Camper Cafe which surely…
Little egrets
In the last few years I have begun to re-engage with birding after a long hiatus. I wouldn’t quite say I lost interest in my teens; more than birding became…
Côte de Granit Rose and Magheragallon
The Pink Granite Coast of Brittany, along Ploumanac’h is an enchanting, strange landscape. My then two year old leapt to his heart content up and down boulders, perhaps to a degree…
LINES COMPOSED A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY, ON REVISITING THE BANKS OF THE WYE DURING A TOUR. JULY 13, 1798
Five years have past; five summers, with the length Of five long winters! and again I hear These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs With a soft inland murmur.–Once again Do…
10% Of Our Potential and The Search for Something More
I have been working through the previously discussed The Search for Something More by Peter Hannan and the various exercises therein (this image which rather I posted rather cryptically is part of another…
Hommage á Ligne Claire Part 2 Review of “Tomorrow’s Guardian” by Richard Denning, SF Site 2013
This review was of a rather charmingly artless YA book written by a GP . I think my review gets across a certain enthusiasm while acknowleding that this is not High…
Séamus Sweeney 