Springing up from sleep:)

It has been a long time since my last post, October I suppose it was, just after I moved into my new mobile home... Being April I can say I have survived a winter in a tin box:) Actually, it was more than survive, since as far as I remember the places I've resided in since leaving the family nest, this one had the most potential to be warm, once the stove was going, everything was fine and toasty.Minus a good bit of draft from the floor, but I'll sort that for next winter:)
I slowly made the place more and more comfortable, and once I accepted the fact that it'll never be perfectly finished, I'm happy:)
Painted the place nice and green so it'll blend in, startes some vegetable beds (well, amazingly the weeds already have taken over...), the place at the moment is a little vegetable nursery. The winter also brought broken chimneys, broken shower, gas leak, waking up at 4am by a carbon monoxide alarm, driving on ice, water freezing inside overnight,tipsyly fixing disconnected pipes flooding the place after the thaw-out on christmas night at 3am, cosy fires, and other random events.
Had a short trip to Hungary in January, and a few little ones up the country.
The days on the farm have turned from playing cards into planting hundreds of globe artichoke plants out to the fields and the likes, exciting times!
I've also started to do a bit of home help work nearby, and in the midst of it all, have a temporary housemate for a few months, a lovely pup called Uisce.
I might as well fill the rest of the space with pictures, they're so much more exciting than words!
They're kind of in an opposite order, newest to oldest.

Uisce guarding the door

The green mobile home, note the little propagator under big window

Climbers getting ready. They'll be covering the tin box with their lovely flowers

Apple mint revival: I thought I chucked some dead plants into the ditch last autumn....

Welcome at the door by lavender and forget-me-not

Runner beans and mangetout ready to go into the ground

Uisce resting after a day's work

The creche

Paws getting closer and closer. They have a very special friendship!

The coolest dog in the coolest dog basket

Oisin with Squeek and Uisce

Snowy Sligo mountaintops

Hungarian style stove in Mayo

When Uisce was little

Dusk in the woods, Koszeg mountains, Hungary

My little brother and me

Pantry

After Christmas Eve dinner....

Making Mezeskalacs

Guest couch, Vicky waking with the cats

Blackbird on the hawthorn

Cosy cat by the fire

Snow at Gort na Nain

Full moon rising

When you can't decide who shall sit on the rocking chair...

New Beginnings

The living room-bedroom with the magical stove which makes the place nice and warm


View through the living room window, onto my little start of a garden. Note Bubble the cat on the very very makeshift compost bin...

The cave. Partly painted. It'll be all green soon enough:)


View from below


So, this is it, my new home, wow, I'm lucky , very lucky, have a cosy little place to myself, all on a lovely organic farm owned by lovely people, abundant in veggies and eggs, and all for a day's work a week. Come visit.:) It was a long move, jeez, all the packing, painting, moving, unpacking sealing, whatever, and the rest of stuff what was going on, but anyhow, I'm slowly settling down and establishing a bit of a good routine.
Tell you more the next time!

The last day of August

Mum's back yard

My niece Anna

My sister and her 2 kids

In action

Mum



My little niece, Anna, discovering the joys of painting:)


Can't believe how quickly this month has passed!I'll try and document the happenings of it all. Since my last post, the sun returned whilst I was still visiting Hungary, so I made sure to soak it up as much as possible - it was a great 10 days altogether, spent with family and friends, little ones and old ones. Hanging out, walking in woods, smoking pipe by the river Danube, meeting the soundest 98 years old lady, playing with my niece and nephew, drinking great hungarian wines and the rest. Here's a few photos from those days.

The coolest 98 year old lady!

My dear friend Iza

Made a new friend too

Watching cartoons





I came back home on the 14th, and been very busy preparing and recording with the band for over a week, then and in the meantime preserving veggies from the garden, picking blackberries, and getting -at least mentally- ready for the move to my new home.
Here's some photos of the recording and whatever else I find.

Rax

I'm back in Hungary at the moment for a visit, and yesterday a few of us went to the Alps in Austria for a hike. It was wonderful, not very visual though as we were walking in clouds all day.
Here's a few photos.

The Magical Yew Woods of Killarney

I went to Killarney yesterday to visit my friend Aileen and took a walk in the magical yew woods. They certainly feel like the tree of death and rebirth when you're there.
Here's a few pictures.