Tag Archives: Northern Ireland

Day 1 was generally successful, but Day 2 got off to a baddish beginning. For a start, it rained: not the horizontal skin-piercing stair rods I’m used to in the Fens, but the gentle, soft rain of the west. It’s … Continue reading →

It was back at school sometime in the 1950s and I can remember standing in line while the music teacher conducted us through that lovely Irish air ‘The Mountains of Mourne’. Well, I woke up this morning – bright and … Continue reading →

This next Time Team will be a challenging one. It’s in Northern Ireland, an area not very familiar to me (my mother’s family come from and still live in the south) and it dates to that rather problematical period in … Continue reading →