Mostly I want to keep this blog site jargon free and low tech, but on this post I thought it might be useful to paste up my own notes which include a few facts and figures for those who are interested in more technical details:   Het Loo Royal Estate After a good breakfast we piled [...]

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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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jalex on June 17th, 2009

Two friends of friends are visiting Ireland from Australia and they’ve been staying with me for a couple of days.  We spent Sunday together and I brought them for a visit to the Organic Centre in North Leitrim.  Three reasons: – 1) It’s a great place.  Against all the odds, the Organic Centre was started [...]

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