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Saturday in Boyle

12 Sunday May 2013

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IMG_1453Firstly Happy Mother’s Day to anyone celebrating it today. We had ours in March although I may bake a cake later….just because ;) The photo above is fitting for the day that’s in it. I was up bright and early to take Jono to the railway station yesterday as he was going to Dublin so Rocket-dog and myself headed to Boyle for an explore.

Lough ArrowDSCF8178On the way we stopped off at the Lough Arrow viewing area. The photos aren’t great because the weather was lousy but it’s a chance to go back another day.

DSCF8188Lough Key Forest Park was lovely to walk around (even with the showers). We saw a rabbit but it moved to quick to get a photo.

DSCF8201After the forest park we headed to the Farmer’s Market in Boyle.

Farmers marketI felt very sorry for the stall holders as it was such a cold, miserable day. I was delighted to meet June though who is a regular visitor to my blog and makes these wonderful plaques.

DSCF8226-003 IMG_1475-001My photos don’t do them justice. June has much better pics on her site. She also does commissions so if you are looking for a special gift for someone this would be just the job.

Rocket-dog at King HouseRocket-dog was very impressed with the market, especially as two people recognised him! He also liked the look of King House. The rest of the photos from our morning in Boyle are here.

Boyle Model Railway

11 Saturday May 2013

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8038948503_44d398cee3_b-1The town of Boyle is launching a model railway. I think this is a brilliant idea, we are big fans of trains in this house. They need help though, especially in the areas of making the scenery, assembling buildings, bridges, general art & craft work.
This is a great opportunity to get involved with a fantastic new venture in Boyle. If you can get on board with this project and help them make tracks you can get in touch with them on Facebook or twitter.

The Launch of Boyle Model Railway will take place on Saturday May 25th at 2.30pm at TrojanIT on Elphin Street. With Joe Duffy (RTE) as part of the Local Heroes programme to be aired on June 12th. All welcome!

Down on the farm

17 Sunday Jun 2012

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After my lovely visit to the Sathya Sai Sanctuary I popped over to Tullyboy Farm in Boyle. They have kindly given us a family pass for our Sligo Animal Rescue/Donkey Sanctuary raffle.

The farm was very busy with all the children getting a ride around on the tractor, it gave me a chance to look at the animals.

They have puppies, kittens, horses, donkeys, goats, sheep, pigs, deer and even an owl.

One of the piglets was crying….so I cuddled him and patted his back and he calmed down bless him. He was lovely…but he did pong (I’m just glad he didn’t wee on me!)

This lovely horse is called Charleville Lad, he’s a Connemara stallion and is a beautiful animal.

It’s a great day out for all the family. I really enjoyed my visit. The rest of my photos are here.

Back to Boyle

14 Saturday Jan 2012

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Thursday was the wrap party for Moone Boy in Boyle. I had a really rotten day, my mums dog took ill so I had to bring him to the vet. He needed surgery and I had to pick him up again in the evening. So although I had planned to bring the kids to Boyle I more or less decided not to go as I was really tired. I saw a friend of mine on twitter was going and had posted she was hoping to meet me. So I didn’t want to let her down and we went to Boyle.

I’m delighted we went because I got to meet my new friend and her family. It was lovely to meet her in real life as I’ve known her through twitter for quite a while now. The wrap party was held in Daly’s Bar and it was packed! There was a great atmosphere and there were pictures of Chris O’Dowd around the pub including one of him in the Boyle football team when he was a young lad.

The Rivulets were providing the music for the night. They were excellent. My camera was acting up on the night, hence the pretty rubbish photos.

Jono and Lucy were really pleased to meet Chris. Johnny Vegas also turned up but I think we left before he arrived.

It’s been a fantastic week for Boyle. There has been a lot of talk about Moone Boy and it’s great to see it being mentioned on so many radio stations and in the national and local papers. The Boyle people are really friendly and are delighted to think their town will be on TV soon. I can’t wait to see the show.

My friend took a video of Chris O’Dowds speech from the night:

The day I met Chris O’Dowd

11 Wednesday Jan 2012

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Firstly don’t look too closely because my face needs ironing! ;) I headed over to Boyle in Co. Roscommon this morning where I had read on Real Boyle that the filming of Chris O’Dowd’s sitcom ‘Moone Boy’ was taking place.

First of all I got to meet Steve Coogan who is also in the sitcom. He was very nice. During a short break Chris came over to say hello to the few onlookers that were there. He is such a nice man, no airs and graces on him at all. I have to say the people in Boyle are such a friendly bunch of people. I had a good chat with a few of them and especially with Sean who is Chris’s dad. He is a great photographer and takes some brilliant shots.

I thought it was really interesting seeing the show being filmed. I just saw a short scene filmed and they had to keep repeating it over again a few times. There are 6 big trucks full of equipment in the car park of the Royal Hotel including a catering truck.

Boyle is a lovely town and it’s nice to see the spotlight on the place and hopefully it will encourage tourists to come and visit.

I did a short bit of filming, you can’t really see too much because I didn’t want to get in the way.

King House, Boyle, Co. Roscommon

23 Tuesday Aug 2011

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King House is a magnificently restored Georgian Mansion located in Boyle, County Roscommon. It was built in the early 1700’s for Sir Henry King, whose family were one of the most powerful and wealthy in Ireland.

After its first life as a home, King House was converted into a military barracks in the 19th century for the famous Connaught Rangers regiment. At the end of Civil War in 1923 the barracks passed into the control of the newly formed Irish Free State Army.

Following many years as a merchants store, King House was saved from demolition in the late 1980s and restored to its former Georgian style by Roscommon County Council.

On Tuesday we went to visit King House, I’d been some years ago with the kids and to be honest it hasn’t changed at all but it’s interesting and best of all this year it’s free to visit. As always I took plenty of photos which are here.

Just a word of warning, watch out for the dungeon ;)

After King House we went to Aunty Bee’s coffee shop just across the courtyard. I had a lovely snickers cheesecake….which I should have taken a photo of but didn’t. I would say if you are going to King House try to go on a Saturday morning and you can see the farmer’s market as well. Also it’s free to park on the street opposite the house, so that’s handy to know.

Off the rails and nuts ;)

07 Thursday Apr 2011

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Well Off the Rails on tour in Sligo was on TV last night. I went around to my friends house with Lucy and we watched it together as we were all in the audience. There was a lot of cringing going on. To be honest they didn’t show a whole lot of Sligo. We were at the filming for four hours. It was all going very well and I didn’t think we’d be shown until right near the end and you can clearly see me in the background pulling the most gormless look possible.

If you are in Ireland and have nothing better to do you can watch the show on here (blink and you’ll miss me).

If you aren’t in Ireland and you want to see a small bit of the show (with us in the background) have a look here:

I had to bring my car to Boyle today. It’s been running a bit rough I thought. I’m mortified though because I said to the mechanic about ‘Revving the nuts off it!’  He just looked at me.

On the way to Boyle I stopped at the Gaelic Chieftain which is a sculpture along the N4. If you want to find out more about it click here.

Boyle is a nice little town. I took a couple of photo’s while I was waiting for the car to be fixed.

Toward the light

18 Tuesday May 2010

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Toward the light, originally uploaded by magnum_lady.

Well today was a very interesting day. I had an appointment booked with ‘Psychic Anna’ in Boyle.

While I was waiting for my appointment I had a look around the Ardcarne Garden Centre…..it’s a lovely place. The staff are very friendly and there is a great variety of all kinds of plants and goodies for your garden. So it’s well worth a visit.

Anyway on to my visit to Anna. She is very ‘normal’ and there is nothing scary about being in her house. She has four lovely dogs, two of which fell asleep on me! There is a fountain in the corner of the room and on the stereo a cd of nature sounds are playing which is very relaxing.

Anna chatted to me about the dogs and then explained it gave her the chance to see who walked in with me. She said Margaret was there but was helping a newer spirit come through. Margaret was my nan.
Then she said the newer spirit was my dad. She said he was very happy, if he’d have known how great it was he’d have died sooner…lol. That really would have been something my dad would have said.

Anna also read tarot cards and angel cards for me. She told me how clever Lucy is and how strong Jono is. She said Dad is not just walking now he is running…..which is great because he couldn’t walk before he died. He noticed the photo mum had framed of him as well which was only done in the last couple of weeks.

It was lovely to have the reading and nice to know dad is so happy. I know a lot of people don’t believe in spirits and psychics but I’ve had a lot of things happen to me that can’t be explained so I do believe.

Christmas at Tullyboy Farm

12 Saturday Dec 2009

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Jono meets Santa, originally uploaded by magnum_lady.

Andy is still in hospital so we’ve been in to see him twice today. In between that I took Jono to see Santa at Tullyboy Farm.

Jono is really too old, but what with his surgery looming he wanted to go and we are glad we did. He had a lovely day.

As well as meeting Santa and getting a pressie, there was Mary, Joseph and the donkey trying to find a place for the night. A bright star led them to the stable.

Also the elves were in the workshop making toys.

Mrs. Claus was wrapping presents. The children could stir the Christmas pudding and make a wish. There was hot chocolate, mulled fruit juice and mince pies.

One of the elves disappeared and we found him asleep in Santa’s bedroom (Santa wasn’t there!) We all had to shout at him to wake up.

Then we all got a ride around the farm on Farmer Matt’s tractor and ended up in the hay barn searching for snowballs and throwing them at snowmen.

All in all it was a lovely afternoon, well done to all at Tullyboy. There are more photos here.

Wishing and hoping

22 Friday May 2009

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Well so much to tell you and where to begin?

Firstly Jono has finished school (yippee!!!) He just has to go back for 4 exams but no more lessons. Are we pleased? Yes we are!!! Although I do feel older then ever that my first born has finished school. To add insult to injury the child benefit wrote and said as he is almost 16 and won’t be at school then the benefit is meant to stop, that was news to me.

Lucy had her prize giving today and got a certificate for good behaviour and conduct, she was most put out as she thought she should have at least been given a pair of shoes! Anyway she just has 3 more days of school and then that’s first year over….it’s flown by really.

I had to go to the docs the other day about my migraines, I’ve been having them for years but they seem to be getting more frequent (my age I guess) anyway for the first time in my life my blood pressure was normal! I put it down to the fact that I am sleeping in a blue room in this new house, I read in a magazine that blue rooms can lower blood pressure.

Yesterday I took mum to see the psychic. I went off to the Forest Park in Boyle while she was there…..but I wasn’t going to pay 4 euro to park for about half an hour so I abandoned the car (not Bertie by the way, mums car Betty) and then lost the bloody thing and ended up running like a mad woman trying to find it. That’ll teach me for being so tight!
Anyway mums reading went well, the psychic told her all kinds of names including my dads….but she said dad is in shock after his illness and isn’t ready to speak just yet, so that was a shame. My nan was giving out for me being called Val and not Valerie….aparently she doesn’t like me being called Val. Too bad really, my nan didn’t have much time for me at all.

I decided to empty my handbag today, I have a habit of chucking coins into the bottom of it….do you know how much I found?? 165 euro! That’s mad, no wonder my bag weighed a tonne and my arms resemble Geoff Capes!

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