Recent content by mountainy man

I have decided to poke my head above the parapet and say that I would be in favour of a "Thanks" button as I am a man of few words and am not near as knowledgeable as a lot of you guys and most of the time I just read threads without posting as I don't have any thing much to add to them. It...

I read about these a few years ago but they were silly money so forgot about them, now that they have dropped in price I think I will get one as my only source of heating is the stove. Thanks for posting as I had long forgotten about them.

I really enjoy these shows, Tales from the green valley was amazing stuff and they keep up the standard, as was said above Colonial farm would be good stuff Ruth is the perfect woman, that is all, goodnight.

It looks like a cultivar called "joseph rock", It has good autumn colour and the berries seem to be left by the birds till all others are gone, tis a nice tree but I prefer the native one though. Very good year for rowan berries.

Good stuff, best of luck, have been working on my cottage since 2006, its not easy! also that wouldn't be considered a cottage here in Ireland but don't worry call it your castle if you want. I have subscribed and looking forward to reading more.

Hi Niels, 1- Common vetch 2- Yep cleavers 3- Looks like ground elder 4- water cress (water looks a bit manky!) 5- I am not certain but looks like Snow in summer,Cerastium tomentosum , probably a garden escapee. Hope this helps

A site for Irish maps, they are overlaid and can be flipped between to see the changes over time, earlist map is the first ordnance survey in 1836. also includes aerial phohography. http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,591271,743300,0,10

You are welcome, I like plant quizes.

It's also called phesant berry, Its a shame that the hymailayan balsam is so invasive as its a lovely plant. I know a tributary of the Shannon not far from here and in the summer the banks are infested with the stuff, the mind boggles with how the hell it got there.

No. 1 is Himalayan Honeysuckle (leycestria formosa) definately a garden escapee http://www.pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Leycesteria+formosa No. 2 is a euphorbia amygdaloides (wood spurge) possibly purperea No 3 not a clue although it has a look of a clematis about it.

Looks like a lovely place. Not Gooseberry but Elderberry.

I really like the look of that, all I know about Finland comes from that monty python song!

Thanks folks, will chance it so, yes cyanide I couldn't think of it at the time. If it kills me I'll come back and haunt ye ;)

Hi folks, I have some sloe gin and vodka made two years ago and the sloes are still in the bottles, I was disuussing this with a mate of mine and she said that the stones can make it poisonus if left too long in it. So seeing as you guys/gals are the experts, whats your opinions on this...

Good luck with the move over, Killala is a lovely place, I know it well my grandparents had a shop there in the 1940's, as for jobs you probably know that Ireland is a bit up the creek but there are some jobs out there, but you will be in competition with the other 400,000 odd jobseekers! You...