Roadside garden

The weather continues wild and grizzly, only slightly warmer with rain now rather than sleet. Stir crazy, I bunged on my waterproof trousers miss sensible and sallied forth. The wind is coming in from the east and Kitchen Cove, normally so calm, was rumbustious.  Mindful of Flower Friday, I liked this little arrangement at the side of the road, complete with shells and cyclamen - hanging on in there. Our garden is currently underwater and biblical amounts of the wet stuff are forecast for the early hours of tomorrow morning.

A few excitements today. The first was a fascinating email from a young man in St Petersburg who was investigating Irish saints!(see it's  not just me  Well, one in particular - St Olan who is big in a select corner in North Cork. The young man was doing a thesis on the possible arrival of 7 Egyptians to Ireland in the 7C who brought Coptic Christianity with them. He wondered if St Olan was one of them and what did Irish people think. Well, speaking for the whole of Ireland (!) I suspect the general opinion is St Olan is a proud Irishman but ..... there are some people who think he was Egyptian The reason being in front of his holy well is a massive standing stone. (are you still with me?) On that standing stone is some Ogham writing and this has been rather fancifully interpreted by some as being Here Lies Corpmac/Olan the Egyptian, or something close. Actually it probably refers to the son of a chief whose name is not quite decipherable. And to confuse matters even more, the standing stone is not in its original position. All info duly posted to Fyodor.

The second excitement was I got two dodgy phonecalls from Tunisia - no I didn't answer them.

The third excitement - we have a new washing machine.
Quite enough for one day.