Birr, Ireland I’m typing this in our cottage in Birr, Ireland. We have no internet access here but I’m hoping to get wi-fi access from a hotel in town to send this. Ken and the girls are playing cards in the next room. We’re in a lovely little, old cottage in the grounds of a castle which is still lived in by the same family who have had it for 14 generations. The grounds are extensive and open to the public. Ken has been for a long walk both mornings and Lucy and I went for a walk this morning (and a fairy hunt, according to Lucy this is perfect fairy territory). So far Ireland is green, peaceful and a bit wet. A grey day yesterday but we went for a drive and found a castle
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