Sligo Science Fair

The Science Fair took place in the IT Sligo today.  It was fairly quiet when we were there and I hope more people arrived later on. It seemed to be very poorly advertised, usually there is a timetable of the day on the IT Sligo website and in the local newspapers this year there was... Continue Reading →

These wings were meant to fly

Following on from my 'Learning to Fly' blog post I have more photos to share with you from my visit to the Sligo Aero Club. The plane above is a 1941 Piper Cub J3 it's in beautiful condition and looks exactly as it would have done when it left the factory all those years ago. ... Continue Reading →

Learning to Fly!

I had such a fantastic day today! I had two New Years Resolutions this year. One was to milk a cow the other was to fly over Sligo and take photographs. I'm delighted to say thanks to the kindness of people and to good luck I've completed both. I entered a competition on Facebook for... Continue Reading →

Canon 1100D

The lovely people at Canon-Ireland have lent me a Canon 1100D.  I got to have a play with it between the showers today.  The photo above is Glencar waterfall, I must remember to bring a tripod in future though. The camera seems to be really good in poor light, because it was fairly dark at... Continue Reading →

Fireworks in Fermanagh

I've often seen the Halloween Fireworks display in Enniskillen advertised but I've never got there.  This year we did and had a brilliant night! It was on Thursday (Halloween) and it was a really blustery, rainy day here in Sligo so we were wondering what it would be like in Fermanagh.  It was great though,... Continue Reading →

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