Way Out West

It has taken me almost four hours to get here today... from one side of the country to the other... and I noticed, once again, how the fields got smaller and stonier the further west I travelled... until I arrived here.

It was late afternoon and the light was failing when I took a walk around the town.

Westport looks cold and bleak in these pictures, but it really is a pretty town, with lots of nice shops and cafés. I found one absolute treasure trove of a shop that I would have liked to have bought 'one of everything' in... I almost did!

There are new spoons for the girls, cookie cutters for upcoming festivities, a cake tester with a pink heart (I truly have needed one for so long), a gas lighter for our sometimes dodgy stove, tea-time treats and a mug for Devo which reads " Sex and Mugs and Rock n' Roll" - I love it!

I'm tired and weary tonight. Soon I will go downstairs for something to eat... but mostly I'm looking forward to a big sleep...

A soft grey rain is falling outside my window and the weak and wintery light has left the sky.

Tomorrow I journey forth (or sort of back) to the shores of Lough Mask... more soon...