Well, that really went by in a blink of an eye... I can't believe it's been a year since my last Happy Birthday! post (v5.0), and that my website first made an appearance all the way back in 2012. When I first started writing here I was so nervous and unsure whether blogging was for me at all; however, over the years it's become such an important creative outlet, even if I don't post over-regularly.
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Yes, a post about lighthouses! I've always loved lighthouses without properly realising, and I've decided that the time has now come to officially embrace this. I've accumulated some nice photos over the years and being back in Ireland has given me an even more profound appreciation of all things sea and coast. Lighthouses represent safety and refuge in the face of danger, and there's something both incredibly romantic and forlorn about them; they are often to be found all alone and isolated in the most precarious of locations, and have been built to withstand and endure everything the elements can throw at them. To enhance their allure, lighthouse keepers commonly manned these lights up to relatively recently, and it's impossible not to feel the utmost admiration for these brave men and women. Even the name of the organisation responsible for the majority of lighthouses around Ireland, the Commissioners of Irish Lights, is impossibly romantic...
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Really, it contains a little bit of everything, from a celebration of science and the English language to the joys of travel and the Shipping Forecast. The title ('Meanderings') is a fairly accurate description of its content: I write about different things as the mood takes me, but hopefully there's something in here for everyone... Categories
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