Dawn comes in Cork

Now it's gone

In snow and frost

Boxing Day Birthday Girl

"To sneer at intellectuality is madness. If a person does not develop his mind he is denying his humanity. For there are only two really human triats - the heart and the intellect. To the extent to which a man does not develop his mind (hence also his heart), he is unhuman, not a man, unmanly - however much he may be a 'he-man.' Since being in the garicultural world, no subject has so continuously and so spontaneously presented itself to me as the problem of education. Up till now the powerful Few have not wished to encourage the Many to become aware of Mind, and most obligingly, the Many have therfore despised it and sneered at 'book-learning.' But we have to pay so dearly for the faculty of mind that if we do not make the best of it, we might just as well be animals. This gift is our specific means of becoming more - alive. Two things are essential to the rela life of man, and neither can be supplied by Act of Parliament: love and intelligence - all else is the machinery of life."
The Worm Forgives the Plough by John Stewart Collis  1946

Christmas morning

 No ridiculously early mornings in this household, on any day come to think of it. The stockings are left in the sitting room the night before so no child is disturbed by the bulging lump at the bottom of the bed. Everyone, adults too, gets a stocking with about seven presents in each and we open them at the same time with many oohs and aahs.

Irish Christmas

 Visiting Cobh with HoF and Laura. This is where many left Irish shores for Ellis Island and a new life. It was also the last stop for Titanic.

 The view from Laura's house in Cork. I loved watching from my bedroom window.

 I feel a painting coming on when I look at this one.

After a morning browsing shops and art galleries we two girls had lunch in the English Market. I hope I get to visit Cork again one day, so much more to see. A great place to be at uni.