Hello! Glad you found me - and welcome to my personal site again. This website is here to keep in touch more easily with family, friends and, well... the world really.

As it rebuilds after the disaster of early 2008 when my internet host service (MD Webhosting) went into meltdown, you will at first find just old material that might help you catch up with where I am; other, more up-to-date comment should follow. It will, however, be simpler than the "Joomla " version you may have seen in late 2007. I came to see that the content management software did really make it easier to manage the content, but looking after the software had to become a new, major hobby. No thanks!

But if you have a problem with the site, just mail me.

Real life doesn't divide into neat sections, but I'm trying to do that here so that you can find your way around. This is the Home page.

The Diary has some much older material, mostly consisting of snapshots, some of which have reincarnated through different versions of this site: January 2007 refers to when I made the update; it contains pictures from a trip we took to Oxford even before Sarah left Ireland, Christmas in Sydney, our wedding, trip to Fiji, the house we bought in Leichhardt, family pictures, Trudie's 90th birthday bash, and another Christmas - it's just catching up on the job of posting some pictures. 2005/6 retrospective has a few pictures from that period, while 2005 update is a few more general pictures from then. The first few 200x years mainly has pictures of animals and of the house I had built in West Cork. Finally, 2000 and before  is really old. The pictures are mainly related to when I first went to live in Ireland.

Under Music you'll mostly find stuff about Irish music sessions.

In the "Joomla" version of the site I had a section on Dharma, relating of course to Buddhism - there is a lot more Buddhist activity here in Sydney than there was in County Cork! However that material will (in due course) be going back to the Chagchen site.

I also plan to restore a couple of slightly less public areas, one for family news and one for the Old Folkies from the Baker's Arms.