House, Churchtown, Hook Head

Many times I’ve battled wind, rain & more on the 14.5km from Kilbride to the Hook Light. Today was close to perfection on the bike - the lightest of southerly breezes, good light & nice warmth.

Given my very limited assembly skills, I am feeling quite proud right now.

Out the back, once the haggard

Oh dear.

(It’s the other way round)

Gateway, Clonlard #Wexford

Wednesday 19 June, Kilbride, Battlestown #Wexford

22.51 #Wexford

Shell-strewn Duncannon beach #Wexford

Kilbride, Wexford, Tuesday 18 June

For Toby, car trips are something to be endured.

Off to Wexford’s Hook peninsula tomorrow. But the holidays they start now.

17 June 1653: Oliver Cromwell summons #Scots Lords #otd to #London for a discussion of a union of #England & #Scotland (BM)

17 June: d. c. 510 St. Nectan possibly Irish-born Welsh hermit at Hartland #Devon (RKnights)

17 June 1555: John Feckenham #Benedictine Dean of St Pauls #London preaches at a requiem for Juana 'La Loca' of #Castile #otd (RMFAB/BM)

17 June 1603: b. Joseph of Cupertino, #Franciscan (Conventual) saint in Copertino, Apulia, Kingdom of #Naples #otd

You have to love a floating flying friar

17 June 1580: Robert Persons #Jesuit head of the mission to #England arrives in #London #otd disguised as an army captain (British Museum)

17 June 1553: Edward VI (d. 6 July) alters his 'devise', leaving the throne to Lady Jane Grey #otd (NPG)

17 June 1613: Princess Elizabeth Stewart is solemnly received with Frederick V at Heidelberg #otd

Effigy of Don García de Osorio, in the tradition of the work of Gil de Siloe, Castilian, made perhaps in Toledo, c. 1499-1505. Originally placed in the church of S. Pedro at Ocaña. (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)