Tiger Moth

Found this Garden Tiger moth on Ken's front doorstep today, never seen one before

Keith & Keith …

Keith Booth, Timmy's Uncle from New Zealand meets his great nephew and our son Keith Norris for the first time …

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Erin on the Dolmen Stone

We also visited the Dolmen Stone in Carlow which is a 5000 year old Neolithic tomb and Erin decided to do a bit of mountaineering ...

Erin on the stone, the top stone is about 150 tons

Erin is dwarfed by the huge stone and 

is not too keen on heights ...

Clancy's Bar Traditional Irish music night

The inevitable sampling of the black stuff mixed with a bit of the diddly da fiddle music turned into a great night out :)

Diddly da heaven

My brother Ken

The boys, Ken, Keith & Timmy

Angela & Keith

Ailsa & Angela

Vicarstown

Vicarstown is a remote village in Co. Laois, it's more accessible by canal barges than it is by road, so we took a day out exploring, we managed to get about 30 minutes of photographs and exploring all the boats before the heavens poured down yet again ...

Erin

Angela

Ailsa

Exploring the boats

Keith's hair is so white it blends in with the skyline

The Grand Canal

Keith & Ailsa on Vicarstown bridge

Erin

The Wet and Windy Wicklow Mountains

This was our first outing, myself, Angela, Erin, Aisling, Keith and Ailsa decided to take ourselves up to the mountains, as we rose higher it decided to get wetter and wetter so first of all we went to the local hotel and got a good feed, then we ventured out into the 800 year old monestary ruins and it rained and rained and we got soaked to the skin and left for home after about 20 minutes, oh dear not a good start :)