The ostensible purpose of this blog is to rave about the delightful Courthouse Restaurant in Kinloch and the lovely Organic Centre at Rossinver (both in the far west of County Leitrim) but I also wanted an excuse to give an airing to some of the wonderful cloudscapes that County …
The wonders of honey
Honey is a truly wonderful substance - but Alex and I were reminded of just how wonderful it is a few weeks ago when we got an email with some truly scary images from one of our testers for the FreeFrom Skincare Awards. Her husband had had a really awful operation to remove a …
BT Fon
You may remember that some months ago I was having a fine old rant about BT piggy backing their '5 million hotspots' on the back of all of our wifi routers? Well, the subject has not gone away and a few days ago there was a comment added to the post from Barney LaCat and …
Gluten sniffing dogs
Who can ever resist a doggy story? Well, not many of us so, when you combine a dog with a feel good allergy story, you are away! We first tracked down allergen-detector dogs back in 2006 when we discovered PeanutDogs.com run by Sharon Perry at the Southern Star Ranch Boarding …
Judging the FreeFrom Eating Out Awards
I have just spent a fascinating two days working my way through the judges' comments on our entrants for the FreeFrom Eating Out Awards. And let me say right now that our judges did a sterling job! The forms were extremely long and complicated (much too long and complicated in …





