Don't throw stones ...

....at glass houses. This could be part of my Irish vernacular series though it's certainly not typical! This amazing building nestles behind the trees. It was built in the 70s by an architect and is meant to represent a ship. It is a suspended building and made of glass and metal. Inside, from what I can see, it's very open plan - even the staircase is somehow free standing and made of glass. Apparently, when it was first revealed locals were horrified and threw stones at it! I quite like it. It's a bold statement but I'm not sure I'd want to live in it. All the glass has to have blinds and you'd either be roasting or exposed. Pretty difficult to heat too in the winter. It's a holiday home and the owners keep themselves very much to themselves.

Wild gales and torrential rain in the night and we woke up to no electricity. Not even a cup of tea!! And a cold wash. When I returned at lunchtime the place was full of electricity vans and blokes with blue hard hats. A cable had fallen down on our land and only three houses were affected. We're back on grid now. Still pretty windy, bright with squalls of heavy showers and suddenly much colder.

Travellersjoy is just popping round so we can finalise our winter card selection. We're just doing a few possible images for Christmas - yes, plenty of robins and holly.

Arthouse tonight is 'Little White Lies'. It 's French and has all the reassuring elements of a good French movie - 'fun,fine wine and seafood .... but tensions are simmering just below the surface'. It will of course involve impossibly chic middle aged persons clustered around a dinner table, having existentialist discussions; some will be having clandestine affairs and someone will commit suicide, and the children will be ignored and moody. It doesn't have Juliette Binoche in but it do s have the woman who played Piaf, and very good she was too.