Easter Sunday 31 March 2024

A lazy day at home planned for today, with some clothes washing etc. Being a bit hot and stuffy in our cottage, we decided to do a 20 minute walk on the road at the back of us. Just 3 minutes into the walk, Flashy discovers, sort of in the middle of a cow paddock, an ice cream shop/cafe. I guess the road down to an abandoned fort on the foreshore, gets a lot of traffic during the summer and on further observation, there were people about walking dogs and husbands.

We shared a very good vanilla honeycomb ice cream before continuing the walk. It’s open 11.00 am to 7.00 pm, so looking good for a coffee tomorrow.

There are some things that are just Irish. Like leprechauns at the end of rainbows and fairies doing all sorts of mischief. Well, we did see a rainbow the other day and it reminded me of the time as kids, Michael and I tried to find the end of one. We were told that at the end of the rainbow, we’d find leprechauns with a pot of gold. I think we took sticks with us to beat off the leprechauns and steal the gold. And fairies – well Lady P says “Flashy, it’s gin time!” Looking at my analogue Citizen watch, the little hand was just past four and the big hand on the two. Clearly a little early for the gin and besides I was reading a funny book. “A bit early eh?” “Nonsense, it’s past five.” No it’s not. Yes it is. No it’s not.” Well, blow me down, all the digital devices and we have a few, said it was 10 past five not 10 past four and hence, well past gin time.

How could Flashy’s watch be wrong? Impossible unless the fairies came in to the room while he was reading and mischievously changed his watch. They’d do that, you know. After much discussion and Googling stuff, we discovered that Ireland (Europe in fact) had that morning gone to summer time!