All posts tagged bindweed

Bats, bindweed and several (almost) broken fingers

First of all, apologies for missing last week’s blog and many thanks for all your kind messages. As you can see from the picture, I have been quite incapacitated especially as I am left handed. It was one of those freak accidents where a heavy cupboard door that is supposed to be soft-closing slammed shut […]

Every day is a school day (in Ireland)

“Every day is a school day” is something I hear a lot in Ireland.  It startled me the first time but I think it shows how open many people here are to hearing new things.  Many adults I have known don’t like to acknowledge they don’t know something.  Perhaps they feel it is demeaning or […]