I have just been looking at an article on how to make your blog interesting – and it said………………………………………. Make it interesting! Well, that was helpful.

I spent Christmas in Ireland – first a couple of days in Dublin, and then down to Cork. The highlight of my trip was feeding pigeons in Stephen’s Green (a park) in Dublin. A man was sitting on a bench surrounded by pigeons, and he was feeding them porridge oats; my son and I stopped to watch, and the guy asked if I would like to feed them. He gave me a handful of oats,and within seconds there was a pigeon on my arm, and another on my shoulder! The birds were very gentle, and happily, didn’t do what they are best known for, on me.

The guy said we could walk away with a pigeon, and it would fly back,so this is what we did;about 50 metres along the path, I bent down and lowered the pigeon on to the ground and off he flew – back to his keeper.We waved to the man and he waved back. Keeping it simple.