Tory Hill (Sliabh Cruinn, meaning round hill)

We have had to extend our stay in Ireland by a couple of days.  As mentioned in my last couple of blips, I'm currently rather unimpressed with the lawyers with whom we've been in contact. 

But we've also had to move to a new AirBnb - just down the road from the house we are buying, so convenient for Waterford tomorrow.  

We were up and off reasonably early, so decided to take in one of the loop walks kindly printed up for us at the Kilkenny Tourist Information.  Not that the printed sheet seemed to bear much resemblance to the actual walk.  But we made it to the top, where there is this large cross - apparently erected in 1950, which was some sort of special Holy Year.

Tory is (fortunately) not a political leaning of the hill, but a corruption of the Irish word for outlaw.  Some fascinating info here and here.  On the way up I got the view of the new bridge in Waterford that I've put into extras not bad for my little camera on full optical zoom.

We then continued on to our new accommodation.  We'd actually looked at this when choosing our accommodation for this stay, but decided against it as the toilet is downstairs and the bedroom upstairs, but decided that we could cope for two days.

We had an eventful first evening.  W proved the wisdom of our initial decision by falling downstairs the first time he had gone up.  A bruised and painful coccyx, and a rather good hole in the plaster work were the results.  We then went into Mullinavat for a bit of shopping, and to have a meal.  Later in the evening, half our lights went out.  Because we still had some light, I assumed it was a fuse in our accommodation, but when I rang our host, she told me that some of their power had also gone off, and there was an alarm going off at a neighbour, so it was presumably a regional outage.  And lo, shortly after that, ALL the power went.  We decided to retire to bed, though in fact the power came back on shortly after.  Though it seems to have done something to our heating, which now (Sunday morning) isn't working.

And also this morning our cooker isn't working, though it wasn't switched on at the time of the outage, so not sure why that has happened.

Oh well, it all adds to life's rich tapestry.