North Atlantic Skyline - - Photographs from the west of Ireland (Galway, Mayo, Clare, Limerick, Roscommon and even Leitrim)

Banjaxed, Pt. 2

Eircom blamed lightning for my phone outage;it was probably just a coincidence that there had been lightning last week. They could have just as easily blamed a plague of locusts, for all they knew. This week, either my ISP or hosting service is on the blink (haven't figured out which, yet). It never rains but it pours... Only metaphorically, though. In real life, it is still a scorcher (Apart from Malin Head, which yesterday recorded a temperature only 3 degrees warmer than Iceland). Tuam managed to buck the trend by suffering from flash floods (clean the feckin' drains, lads), but elsewhere, the sun shone, and the temperature neared thirty degrees.

I trudged all the way to the promontory fort above Portacloy in North Mayo yesterday to have a good look at the Stags of Broad Haven. Alas, the haze was against me. I did however get bitten by midges, flying ants and a particulary sneaky horsefly (it waited until I was about to take a photo, and landed on my shutter finger as I clicked). And of course, I got roasted. Be sure to make the most of the weather this weekend. We'll be looking at the rain for long enough.