The weather here is absolutely glorious today so I have no intention of slaving over a dark and hot computer.
I will be out in the sun.
Everytime we get the first indications of winter losing its grip it fills me with surprise and with delight.

I remember in Easter of 1988 we decided that the time had come to brave a holiday in the north of Ireland.
We rented a cottage in Blaney which was just north of Enniskillen on the shores of Lough Erne.
On that occassion the weather surprised and rewarded us.
We had a beautiful, and unseasonal, warm week of constant sunshine.
There was a boat which came with the cottage so we spent most of the time rowing around the lake exploring the hundreds of islands there.

This is a photograph taken of the three daughters in a tree on one of the islands.
As it was 1988 Caitriona must have been 11, Eileen 8 and Deirdre 5