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Dear Minister for Health & Children
Ms. Mary Harney TD Minister for Health & Children, Department of Health & Children, Hawkins House Dublin 2 Re: Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010 Dear Minister, I am a mother of three sons, and currently expecting my fourth child. I … Continue reading
Posted in Cork, Eve Richards, Family, Ireland, Parenting, Skibbereen, West Cork
Tagged children, freedom of choice, harney, homebirth, kids, midwife, Nurses and Midwife Bill 2010
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Wishful Duck Soup
We got given four Muscovy drakes. I was excited by the concept of yummy Christmas dinner and even though I had to drive home with them hissing like demons, in a precarious container, in the dark, I was happy to … Continue reading
Geese
We have lost our gander to a fox. All members of the family, human and otherwise are very sad. He didn’t have a name, but did have a great personality, and was very gentle. In the meantime, I am desperately … Continue reading
Rumoured Unicorn Sighting Reported In Don Valley
Toronto, ON – Amateur video depicting what could be one of the most elusive legendary creatures, the unicorn, has been captured on film by a Toronto resident. The video in question, shot by a local birdwatcher, Peter Hickey-Jones, shows what appears … Continue reading
Pigs & Black Pudding
When the darkness starts to infiltrate our early evenings, and the rooster starts crowing while it is still black in the morning, you know that autumn is coming in West Cork. The many elms around Friendly Cove are just starting … Continue reading
Posted in Biodynamic, Black Pudding, Family, Gardening, Pigs, Recipes, West Cork
Tagged black pudding, butchering, dinner, food, friendly cove, kids, pig
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Dreaming of Mars
After having a deeply intense dreaming session after the new moon this month, I had a look at my own transits. Of course the Mars/Venus conjunction is taking place right on top of my natal Pluto in the 12th house … Continue reading
Posted in Astrology, Gardening, Mars, Mental Health, Moon, Natal chart, Pluto, West Cork
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Broad beans
I finally get the gardener’s love affair with broad beans. For the last four years that I have been trying to grow these wierd plants, I have been continuously disapointed with the cropping. They grow up so large and high … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, West Cork
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Pigs and Solar Eclipses
I am going to tell you how Sunday’s solar eclipse in Cancer went: Our pigs managed to get out of the field they were fenced in. My husband had just put them in, and they were eating away, when our … Continue reading
Posted in Cork, Family, Saturn, Uncategorized, West Cork
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updates from Durrus
Having had the ‘ sex ‘ talk from my mother in what seems to be not so long ago, I was sniggering listening to husband and myself. We were trying to encapsulate such a complex thing for our three sons … Continue reading
Posted in Astrology, Family, Moon, Parenting
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relocation
Seeing as we are right in the process of moving, and following on from my last post, relocation seems to be in the air…. Relocation astrology has followers and disparagers. For my part, I think that the base is still … Continue reading
Posted in Astrology, Family, Mental Health, Uncategorized
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West Cork Astrology 