16 October, 2010



Thought for today:


The media cannot be blamed for the quality of their product if we keep watching and reading what they produce. 

Ferries:  All as normal today.
We recommend checking the ferry web site if you are travelling any great distance, click the link: Cape Clear Island Ferries.com

This blog is maintained by Cape Clear Island Hostel: www.capeclearhostel.com

Wet or Dry: 
Dry throughout the day.


Sunny or Cloudy:
Sunny and beautiful from the moment the sun rose over the horizon and will continue so throughout the day and into the evening.

Night Sky
Still clear last night and great for planet watching with Jupiter still resplendent.  Orion is a stunning site each night. The Milkyway is pointing southwest to northeast

Temperature: 
A mild start  to the morning but then warming up to hot at midday.

Windy or Still:
No wind.

Sea Condition:
Calm.

Tides  - approx: 
High:  00.33
Low:    06.58
High :  13.15
Low:    19.45
Using 24 hour clock

Collared Flycatcher possibly.
Barn Owl
Red Flanked Bluetail
Red Throated Pipit
Red Backed Shrike
Pied Flycather
Ring Ouzel
All on 10th October 2010, reported by John Lynch

Chickens x 5:  Maggie; Oraiste; Teapot; Billybob; Ginger  
Plumage: looking good (haven't moulted since I had them)
Billybob is looking good.
Eggs: 4

Flowers
Roses looking lovely  - pink and gorgeous..
Marigolds are huge and gorgeous.

Too many flowers to mention them all.

Vegetables from the walled garden
Lettuce
Onion
Carrots
Spinach
Cabbage
Beetroot
Potatoes
Planted turnips
We had tomato,carrot, and onion soup a few evenings ago and it was lovely mmmmm!

Water Shortages
Please use water sparingly as water is still rationed on Cape

Fishing:  
NA

Books:    Currently reading: 
Henry Martyn Field's History of the Atlantic Telegraph, published 1866:
The story of the heroic struggle to connect America with Europe. 

Terry Coleman's Passage to America, published 1972.       


Favourite Poems:

  The Passionate Shepherd to his Love (Christopher Marlowe)

Come live with me, and be my love;
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dales and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

And we will sit upon the rocks,
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.

And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies;
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;

A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair-lined slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold;

A belt of straw and ivy-buds,
With coral clasps and amber-studs:
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me, and be my love.

The shepherd-swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May-morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love.


     The Nymph's Reply (Walter Ralegh)

If all the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd's tongue, 
     These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee and be thy love. 

Time drives the flocks from field to fold,
When rivers rage and rocks grow cold;
And Philomel becometh dumb; 
The rest complains of cares to come. 

The flowers do fade, and wanton fields 
To wayward winter reckoning yields: 
A honey tongue, a heart of gall, 
Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. 

The gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, 
Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies 
Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten,— 
In folly ripe, in reason rotten. 

Thy belt of straw and ivy buds, 
Thy coral clasps and amber studs, 
All these in me no means can move 
To come to thee and be thy love. 

But could youth last and love still breed, 
Had joys no date nor age no need, 
Then these delights my mind might move 
To live with thee and be thy love. 

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