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To fiddle with that famous line from Oscar Wilde – “To lose one queen may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose two seems like carelessness.”
And that’s exactly what it was – complete, unmitigated carelessness. A new baby came into the house on the first day of spring this year. In [...]
Sometimes it takes quite a bit of effort to buy Irish. Not the kind of effort that entails convincing yourself of its merits or finding the extra cash sometimes required for local products – just the simple act of finding these local products in the first place.
You can tell by the slight smile on their faces. A kind of a half smirk that gives nothing away, but the fact that life isn’t bad. Another sign is the lack of moaning; a group of people that can be quite vocal when times are tough, they’re keeping very quiet at the moment.
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Half a very hard sliced brown pan, four or five apples too withered to eat, a heel of old cheese and some lovely ham that somehow got lost in the back of the fridge and a tub of yoghurt that sat there, unopened, for far too long. That’s what ended up in our bin [...]
About Me
About 10 years ago, I did something I never thought I would and returned home to live in my native county Kilkenny. Myself and my family set up home just one mile outside a beautiful little village called Johnswell. And we’ve never looked back.For a living – I work as a freelance broadcast and print journalist. I’m a presenter on Ear to the Ground, RTE Television’s farming and rural affairs programme, write a weekly column for the Kilkenny People newspaper and recently co-devised a new Irish reality TV programme – ICA Bootcamp.
And for fun - I keep bees, grow all my own fruit and vegetables and putter around my polytunnel.
Helen Carroll
Kilkenny, June 2011
The 3 Acres Bees
The 3 Acres
