Thank you Rita Lee - the Ring of Kerry is special even for those who live there. Re the horses - the jumping season is now over and the flat season is beginning.

Thanks Ted for your interest. At the moment I am reading James Joyce's <A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man>. I'm going rather slowly with this because on the way I am relating information in it to that in <Ulysses>. For a change I frequently dip into <50 American Artists You Should Know>, Debra ...

Hi! Since I retired from a career in teaching (science and computers) I have spent more time reading those books that I always wanted to read but did not. All during the 1980s - and onwards from then - I read all the latest books on computers to the exclusion of others. Anyone remember <Killer Ultil...