73 Sandhills

Here are a few pictures of the single bedroom upstairs. It’s what would traditionally be called the “box room” but it’s actually quite spacious. Considering that Sylvia uses it as her reception room – it has shelves, a table and chairs and one of the water fountains she sells – you might expect it to [...]

Hopefully we’ll get to visit the Delta Centre this weekend. They have a really beautiful garden where there is always some new detail that catches my eye. I especially love the sculptures. It’s only up the road from Sandhills – we just need to make the time.

This day last week we had the local elections. Sandhills is on a border so half the estate votes for one area and half the other. We were able to vote for the town council and the county council. There are a number of websites that gave information of the elections – including one I reviewed on [...]

As the house is in the middle of the town we don’t get much in the way of rabbits or badgers. Sometimes we have to make our own or wait for something unusual to fly in.

The brownshill dolmen is just up the road from us. It’s a nice place to bring the dog for a walk. The spooky photo happened when our camera was not working properly – I think it’s kind of cool. Click on the photos for larger versions.  

SLÍ AN CHROÍ is one of our favourite places to go for a walk. It’s so peaceful and has loads of nooks and crannies to make every walk different.

Before we returned to Ireland we already had a site purchased in Ballinacarrig – close to where my parents live. We knew all along that we would be moving and selling our home in Sandhills. That’s part of the reason why we have nice neutral colour schemes rather than bright pink and green like some other [...]

We get a lot of birds visiting in the garden. It’s been interesting to see how in the first months we had almost no birds – presumably due to the building work that was going on. Now we get sparrows, swallows, blackbirds, magpies, starlings, thrushes, crows (including smaller hooded crows) and a number of other [...]

Here’s a map of the estate itself. It’s a large estate but the layout makes it feel much smaller. At this stage we would be very familiar with most of the people on our street. The other neighbours we tend to meet on the central green area or during residents association meetings. Number 73 is [...]

Yet another of the hidden treasures nearby – Duckets Grove. I’m not sure if the dog is allowed off the leash so shhh! don’t tell anyone.

For those of you that don’t know where Sandhills in Carlow actually is – here’s a map. Basically it’s on the Hacketstown road – right behind the new SuperValu.