Bruce Springsteen in Kilkenny 2013

We went to the Bruce Springsteen concert in Kilkenny on Sunday. I’d always regretted missing him in Slane back in 1985 when I wasn’t allowed to go and considering he was only 17 miles away, I definitely wasn’t going to miss this. I booked the tickets back in February when I was dying with the flu!

We brought the children with us, their first concert and our first for a long long time. The sun shone (apart from one quick shower [...]

Irish Farmerette Goes To Wales

As you can probably guess by the silence here, it’s been a busy week. I went to Wales last week for a two day trip (more on that in a moment), then I was teaching in Co. Meath and then catching up on everything and getting ready for teaching my first online pinterest course over at We Teach Social.

The silage was cut while I was away! We started it on the Bank Holiday but it became misty so [...]

The #Farmerettes Tweet Up

Farmerettes at Cillin Hill MartIt was a dark, blustery and very unsummerlike day when I arrived at Cillin Hill mart for our #farmerettes tweet up. Organised some 2 months ago, the idea came from a couple of tweets and as always with determined and enthusiastic women, the date and venue was decided as the number of female farmers on twitter who wished to [...]

Day Out At The Beach

We haven’t had a day out as a family in ages, months in fact. ?The calving season is always busy but with the bad weather, farming has been more labour intensive with cattle having to be fed fodder and bedded instead of just being checked daily. ?We’ve got the heifers out now, we usually run them after the cows in the fields near the house so we can keep an eye on them to see which ones are on heat [...]

Craic in Cork

Back after a relaxing few days in Cork. We usually try to get away in January and go abroad if possible but this year neither of us were in the mood of travelling for 2 days plus it was going to be a tight window between selling bulls to the factory and cows calving so we decided to stay in Ireland. A load of bulls went on Wednesday morning just before we headed off.

After asking for recommendations on facebook, we [...]