cherry season in NI

On my walk yesterday, I found that the cherries growing at the side of Springfield road were at their perfect stage of ripeness.

Had a snack... 

Updates

 Just now updating my blog. 

Besides being away from it for too long, many of the links were obsolete. I've just got rid of a lot of them. I had a very long list of links to other blogs that I used to follow, a lot of them no longer existent. Rather sad. I spent many hours at sites such as Next Wave, etc. I'm surprised that archaeologists weren't using my site to study the history of the Internet!

Also I've added links to a couple of my more recent books.

I should issue a disclaimer: I don't have an obsession with rats. It isn't lost on me that two of my recent series include "rat" in the title. Only the most recent series features actual rats. Had I written Rat Queen first, I wouldn't have named the earlier series Rats in the Cellar. That one isn't about rats at all, but only as a metaphor.

Limerick Time

Reinventing the Wheel

  when willie reinvented the wheel

  we all laughed and called him a schlmiel

      then it so happened

      that he took out a patten

  now it's his licence fees that make us reel

French

  A lass named Polly McKenzie

  Took French, because it was trendy

     When asked to romance

      a gentleman from France

  she went into a parles vous frenzie 

  Parisian life he offered, she took it,

  but now, she's a pity to look at

      'cause dear Polly, poor wench

      all she'd learned of her French

  was 'silver plate' and 'mercy bucket'