Rabbits! An “R” in the month.

“Rabbits!”It is the first of September.An “r” in the month.The year has turned.Those “r”- less months of summer, May, June, July and August.The months of warm bright sun and long, light evenings.Fade away now like summer memories.Snapshots in an album, all that is left of the summer.This grey, damp morning seems to bring gloom, the…

Aran Island Journey

The Aran Islands, they sound exotic, perched off the coast of Ireland, next stop Newfoundland. All I knew of them was the old black and white film, Man of Aran by Robert Flaherty. A dramatic soundtrack accompanying grainy images of rock strewn land, high cliffs and storm lashed coasts. Emphasising how hard a life it…