Author Archives: Steve McDonagh

Fade to Grey

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Steve McDonagh

I pass this wee house  when I  go for a walk through Castleroe on the banks of the Bann. I can vaguely remember it in better days, when it still had a roof, but even then I don’t remember if … Continue reading →

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N’ere cast a clout till May is out

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Steve McDonagh

Out for a wander today on the wee back roads on the outskirts of home and as I wandered I was reminded of this poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins Nothing is so beautiful as spring— When weeds, in wheels, shoot … Continue reading →

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Weekend Walkies Again

Posted on April 18, 2010 by Steve McDonagh

I really am quite impressed with “Cardiac Trainer”  for Android Phones, it is free in it’s basic form, which is more than ample for what I want it to do which is basically record where and how long my dander … Continue reading →

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Sunset

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Steve McDonagh

There are evening when nature makes you stop and HP ohhhh

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Steve’s contribution to the UK Election

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Steve McDonagh

I cannot let the build up to the UK elections pass without having a useful pie chart on the old Blog. Here you go and please note it is WAY more useful than the guff you get from the main … Continue reading →

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Laundry leprechaun threatens strike action!

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Steve McDonagh

Yesterday the Irish Association of  House and Garden Slaves met to discuss the deepening crisis taking place in the McDonagh household. Their Laundry Leprechaun is threatening to go on strike if the problem of Inside -Out items in the laundry … Continue reading →

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A week using the HTC Desire

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Steve McDonagh

Part of last weeks anniversary of Steve V1.0 I upgraded my trusty Sony Ericsson Telephone which had kept me in contact with the world for the last 5 years . You can hardly say that I am bleeding edge when … Continue reading →

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Weekend Walkies

Posted on April 11, 2010 by Steve McDonagh

OK this weekend was ( shock-horror-climate-change-probe ) actually lovely weather, blue skies, sunny and not windy at all. It has to be said at this point that this is not unknown in April in Northern Ireland just REALLY REALLY rare! … Continue reading →

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Sunday Dander – The Circuit of Portstewart

Posted on April 4, 2010 by Steve McDonagh

It being a Sunday and there being a big yellow thing in some blue sky, I took myself off for a dander at 9:30 this morning. I took with me my new “birthday toy” a bridge camera, not quite and … Continue reading →

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Righteous curmudgeonosity and car park eittiquette

Posted on April 3, 2010 by Steve McDonagh

Okay tis one’s birthday today and it is one of what many people call “special” as it has a zero at the end. Now to me being completly divisible by 10 is not really an occasion for applause and rapture. … Continue reading →

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