jalex on May 28th, 2010

Yesterday I went to Sligo to run a few errands, to get the car serviced and to give myself the treat of having a Shiatsu massage. Fabulous!!  It was wonderful to be walking about enjoying the sunshine. After lunch in a busy river side cafe, I walked over a little pedestrian bridge to the other [...]

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jalex on February 21st, 2010

Word just in from Martino Newcombe and Tom Nixon of Trojan Horses that we can see them and their magnificent horses at work this coming Tuesday night at 8.30pm, RTE 1, on Ear to the Ground.  Do some home work by checking out their blog site in advance of the programme and you’ll begin to [...]

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jalex on September 5th, 2009

Next month Pro Silva Ireland is holding a forest trip at Baronscourt, County Tyrone. It promises to be a fairly packed event, both with people and with information and things to see. I’ll be writing more about it as the date (3rd October) draws nearer, or look on the Pro Silva Ireland website. We had [...]

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jalex on July 28th, 2009

One of the subjects that frequently comes up on this blog site is ‘clearfell forestry’. I wouldn’t be such an ‘anti’ if it was kind of 50/50 permanent forest/clearfell plantations, or at least a bit more balanced. It’s just that in the Cavan/Leitrim area where I live, there isn’t anything else. (Well, apart from two [...]

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jalex on July 2nd, 2009

Even though I’m back over a week from the Pro Silva Ireland trip to Holland, I haven’t been able to get my head around blogging about it until now.  I could say it’s because we saw so much in just two full days, – but that might give the impression that it was a hectic, [...]

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