Main Archives
November 2014

• 09/11 - The Unknown Object.......
• 07/11 - The artists return, and so do I.......

September 2014

• 05/09 - It's Autumn at Ballyduff.......

May 2013

• 06/05 - It's spring at Ballyduff - 2013..............

April 2013

• 30/04 - Terre Blanche
• 30/04 - 30 April 1993
• 25/04 - Granola........
• 22/04 - Standoff..............
• 21/04 - Bonsais................
• 17/04 - Great activity...........
• 16/04 - 15 April 2013

January 2013

• 06/01 - I must stop this, but..................
• 05/01 - A recorded memory............

December 2012

• 31/12 - The Three Friars............
• 29/12 - My brother, Charles. 7 March 1938 - 16 December 2012
• 28/12 - Lime and lime kilns..............
• 01/12 - Clare sunset..........
• 01/12 - An evening walk to Coolroemore............
• 01/12 - As I mentioned..................

November 2012

• 11/11 - More autumn colours.........
• 05/11 - Autumn leaves.....
• 04/11 - Making shapes......
• 03/11 - A date in Kilkenny......

October 2012

• 29/10 - Scruffy, cold hens and other fowl............
• 28/10 - More Kitchen..........
• 28/10 - Early morning.......
• 18/10 - Spiders' creations?
• 03/10 - An insistent visitor.........
• 03/10 - Some progress............
• 01/10 - Inishbofin.............

August 2012

• 05/08 - Torment and torment relieved...............

April 2012

• 22/04 - Early mrning...................
• 04/04 - The Doyle's visit..............
• 04/04 - Ting Ting 2................
• 04/04 - Rural Ireland - The Inside Story

March 2012

• 28/03 - After the event...........
• 20/03 - It's Kitchen time...........
• 14/03 - Newspapers.....................
• 13/03 - I don't know how......but.........
• 12/03 - Rates Demand - Kilkenny County Council - 2012
• 11/03 - Back in the Blackstairs - again...............

December 2011

• 30/12 - Ting Ting.......
• 30/12 - Christmas 2011.....
• 30/12 - I know I've been misssing...again...but.....
• 10/12 - I was shopping in Lidel....

November 2011

• 19/11 - Gadgets..........
• 19/11 - Adjunct.................
• 02/11 - Well, well well 2...........
• 01/11 - The next outing..............

September 2011

• 26/09 - A glass vessel..........
• 13/09 - Crab apples and..............
• 04/09 - The Black & Amber - Cat.......
• 04/09 - The Observer 13 May 1945..............

August 2011

• 21/08 - Prudence the hawk............
• 21/08 - Out from under my stone........
• 09/08 - The brochure.......
• 09/08 - Influence or Plagiarism?...........
• 07/08 - It's Up and Running..............

July 2011

• 30/07 - Preparations are well under way...............
• 26/07 - Words.......
• 25/07 - Exhibition......an Invite to all.....
• 21/07 - Medieval Kilkenny.....
• 18/07 - A Midsummer Night's Dream................
• 16/07 - Our week on Beara - July 2011.............
• 02/07 - Off to Beara..............
• 01/07 - Recent work...............

June 2011

• 30/06 - After a hard day.......
• 23/06 - Blackstairs 3 or is it 4?............
• 21/06 - Irish Furniture..........................
• 12/06 - Fact is stranger than fiction.............
• 12/06 - The survival of the fittest.............
• 11/06 - What is done is done.....
• 08/06 - Tonight's the night...........
• 07/06 - Spring at Ballyduff - 2011
• 06/06 - I forgot to mention.........
• 05/06 - Coolmore and the Umbrella Tree.............
• 02/06 - May, a month of visits.............

May 2011

• 31/05 - Broody Irma...............
• 16/05 - Lemon Tree....
• 13/05 - We the Citizens............
• 13/05 - Exhibition..............
• 01/05 - Mindfield in Merrion Square............
• 01/05 - You don't know until it happens...........

April 2011

• 25/04 - One more time..........
• 25/04 - A small voice said.........
• 03/04 - A 'vide grenier' find.............

March 2011

• 31/03 - Olargues and The meaning of the world according to Susan................
• 31/03 - .......And the cat of Marseillan................
• 30/03 - The saga of the Thezan cat..........
• 29/03 - The church tower of Thezan..............
• 20/03 - Another week in Thezan...............
• 12/03 - Alcove cabinets in beech..............
• 02/03 - Election - 4......................
• 02/03 - The first day of spring.........
• 01/03 - Libya 2..............
• 01/03 - Carol Hawkins..............

February 2011

• 28/02 - Election 2011 - 3
• 27/02 - Election 2011 - 2
• 26/02 - A visit to the dentist................
• 23/02 - Libya......................
• 13/02 - Back in the Blackstairs...............
• 11/02 - Election 2011...........
• 11/02 - The brilliance of Helen..............
• 11/02 - The line was down.................
• 01/02 - Marmalade................

January 2011

• 24/01 - The Christmas Book..............
• 21/01 - 20.01.11 - A day to remember?..................
• 14/01 - Bench stops................
• 14/01 - Extraordinary eggs............
• 14/01 - Dead elm and living Beech trees................
• 12/01 - Jude the carpenter............
• 09/01 - Oh dear, Oh dear, Oh dear..........

December 2010

• 03/12 - Pailhes to Pailhes - A good walk........................
• 03/12 - Lemon trees in the cold................
• 01/12 - China Berry Tree.................

November 2010

• 29/11 - Thezan - Day three..........
• 28/11 - Well, well, well.................
• 02/11 - Calling a pharmacist from France.............

October 2010

• 31/10 - Kitchens.......................
• 30/10 - In the skip.......................
• 30/10 - Halloween...............
• 26/10 - First doubts....................
• 26/10 - The Flaggy Shore and more..............
• 23/10 - The Geffrye Museum and the Middling Sort................
• 20/10 - A walk in the Blackstairs................
• 09/10 - St. Canice's partial eclipse................
• 08/10 - Grasshopper.......................
• 08/10 - Egg Storage.........................
• 05/10 - Shattered..................
• 04/10 - Another wine attack..............
• 02/10 - More Eggs...................

September 2010

• 30/09 - The question is................
• 24/09 - A Government for National Recovery?..............
• 23/09 - Clearing the Mill - 1.................
• 21/09 - A memory stirred..............
• 20/09 - The Excitement of It!...............
• 20/09 - A Day out.................
• 08/09 - Homing Hens...........
• 08/09 - As promised..............
• 08/09 - What a relief...............
• 03/09 - Opinel knives...........

August 2010

• 29/08 - Another Fly....................
• 24/08 - An evening walk over the Arrigle...............
• 24/08 - Another Furnituer alert..............
• 23/08 - The Fly Attack................
• 17/08 - Information...................
• 16/08 - The Spider & the Fly.............
• 12/08 - For your information 2............
• 11/08 - Yet more hens................
• 02/08 - Roof Day..................

July 2010

• 31/07 - Freedom..........
• 27/07 - July at Ballyduff.............
• 25/07 - For your Information..................
• 15/07 - More fowl talk...............
• 14/07 - Canada - Rockies animals 1 - Wapiti.................
• 13/07 - Last of the hentalk............
• 12/07 - My girls.......................
• 09/07 - Hen update......................
• 09/07 - This caught my eye 2...............
• 05/07 - Jack O'Hare - Final comment..........
• 04/07 - Jack O'Hare.................
• 01/07 - Hens and henhouses...........
• 01/07 - Normal sevices to resume........

June 2010

• 17/06 - Broken promises.............
• 08/06 - A 'Sussex chair' in Canada...........
• 07/06 - I'm back.............

May 2010

• 30/05 - They grow wild in the Rockies................
• 27/05 - A little glass object..............
• 26/05 - Believe it or believe it not...............
• 23/05 - The only problem is.............
• 16/05 - Bread
• 15/05 - The weekend get-together................
• 08/05 - Well if it isn't the ash............
• 06/05 - The Sussex Chair revisited............
• 05/05 - Chairs and Chairmaking...............
• 04/05 - Spring at Ballyduff 2.............
• 02/05 - The German mousetrap

April 2010

• 27/04 - Bat update...............
• 26/04 - Maggie, Tom and Mick.............
• 25/04 - A busy week..............
• 20/04 - Spring at Ballyduff...........
• 17/04 - This one's for you Sinead!............
• 17/04 - Where have they gone?..................
• 15/04 - A small bit of trumpet blowing............
• 13/04 - VICTORIAN FURNITURE
• 03/04 - Another memory stirred.......
• 02/04 - Stirring memories.........
• 01/04 - Did I speak too soon?.............

March 2010

• 27/03 - Our weekend in Belfast.............
• 26/03 - Attention, Attention............
• 26/03 - What is Design? or The 'Mission Statement' of a Commission Designer and Maker
• 18/03 - Off to Belfast..............
• 18/03 - Have I heard good news?.........
• 14/03 - It set me thinking..........
• 12/03 - Half way....................
• 07/03 - These caught my eye...........
• 04/03 - Frosty fields at Ballyduff...........
• 02/03 - Le pont romain et Moulin a bled.............
• 01/03 - The quayside at Agde.......

February 2010

• 28/02 - Killing time..........
• 25/02 - A stroll in Pezenas..........
• 24/02 - A Vide Grenier in Roujan.........
• 23/02 - Apologies, apologies.........
• 17/02 - Minister, I am less than happy and I could be getting cross....
• 17/02 - New Yorker...........
• 17/02 - Sunday in Languedoc...........
• 17/02 - Dispatch from Thezan.........
• 07/02 - Old things and New things......
• 04/02 - James O'Keefe 1850-1923............
• 04/02 - Teaching Days One and Two arrive and pass...
• 04/02 - A scolding!.........

January 2010

• 18/01 - A good weekend.............
• 17/01 - Wax enquiries......
• 17/01 - I'm afraid it's me again minister.........
• 10/01 - Snow at Ballyduff.........

December 2009

• 30/12 - How could I have doubted you, minister?
• 26/12 - Cats.....
• 26/12 - Cnristmas Cards, Friends and...............
• 13/12 - Kilkenny House
• 13/12 - One of my favourite finds...

November 2009

• 27/11 - Irish Country Furniture 1
• 27/11 - Just to let you know minister...
• 25/11 - A happy coincidence....
• 23/11 - My thanks to my mentor and my instructor....
• 21/11 - The timber drying experiment...
• 21/11 - The two Merrions
• 20/11 - More water...
• 20/11 - Our little river in spate
• 16/11 - Kilkenny Limestone
• 15/11 - Thomastown's Shopfronts
• 14/11 - This is Home

 
From the Workshop Archives
March 2011

• 12/03 - Alcove cabinets in beech.............

September 2010

• 08/09 - The History of a Furnitue Commission 6 - The Last Post......................

August 2010

• 24/08 - The History of a Furniture Commission 5 (little) Progress report...............
• 17/08 - The History of a Furniture Commission 4 - The Visit................
• 12/08 - The History of a Furniture Commission 3.....................

July 2010

• 27/07 - The History of a Furniture Commission 2.............
• 24/07 - The History of a Furniture Commission - 1

May 2010

• 05/05 - Chairs and Chairmaking..............

March 2010

• 26/03 - What is Design?...............

December 2009

• 13/12 - Kilkenny House

November 2009

• 16/11 - Kilkenny Limestone
• 15/11 - From the Workshop
• 15/11 - Thomaston's Shopfronts.............