The walk from the school bus to the front door is taking an awful lot longer than it did last June. (Yum)

Lovely to see all the bees buzzing around the vegetable garden in the sun. Nice to have some company while weeding!

The meadow in front of the Lodge is in full bloom and a joy to behold! The roof is also in full bloom and blending in beautifully with...

The summer holidays are here. All is lush and green with long swishy swashy grass and wildflowers in every direction including up on the...

Pretty cloudscapes reflecting in the lake, brightening up our day!

While some of us have forgotten it's Spring thanks to all this dismal weather, the birds are cracking on with things. Undeterred by all...

Simply stunning time-lapse footage of the Northern Lights at Lough Mardal this week taken by photographer Noel Keating can be seen...

What a magical night! The Northern Lights mesmerized us here at Lough Mardal and across most of the North West last night. So many tmes...

Valentines Day may have passed but love is still in the air... and on the bog, and in the fields, in the ditches, in the puddles and on...

Some photos of the beautiful Winter scenes the Arctic Airmass gave us here at Lough Mardal this week.

It's all go in the meadow. This little cuckoo flower is proving popular!

And in a flash there was colour everywhere. The colour of summer! The wildflowers have started popping up everywhere now, each few days a...

We've had a pretty prowler over the last couple of evenings making lots of squawky noise and venturing right up to our window. It's...

What another beautiful start to the day as we continue enjoying this mini-heatwave. An ethereal fog hanging over the lake, early morning...

Canada Geese are back on the lake again. As its name implies, the greater Canada goose is not a native species - in Ireland colonisation...

A lovely find by the girls - the Common Garden Tiger Moth - we usually see the caterpillars munching on ragwort but don't often see the...

This heron, a regular visitor here, is usually very hard to photograph, let alone record on video. I manage to capture him today though...

Quite a few large birds are circling Lough Mardal the last few weeks as the lake shoreline has become a breeding ground for frogs - they...

Lovely to see the return of the Canada Geese. They usually nest on one of the small islands on the lake. Our journey to school has been...

Leaving the house has been so much simpler the last couple of days - no ten minute rummaging for hats, scarves, jackets, wellies (oh...