Ahagouna

The sun is back but so is the easterly wind and it's bitterly cold. We've cancelled tonight's book club bash, nervous of the tiny untreated roads and the temperatures are said to be falling to between -5 to -11!
I nipped into Durrus to get a few essentials and stopped off to blip the only arch I could think of! This was the original road from Ahakista to Durrus before the coast road was built in the mid 1800s, and this little bridge has been here for a good few hundred years. This townland is called Ahagouna, Ford of the Calves, and the old stepping stones can still be seen behind the bridge. The white building behind is nostalgic too for that is the old St James' National School where I worked for a good few years until we moved to our posh new building next door. Having lain vacant since the school departed, someone has bought it and is slowly doing it up. Bags of potential: two big rooms with high ceilings, fireplaces, dado rails, terrazzo floors, original coat hooks and some very dodgy loos. 
And thank you for the good wishes for Himself, he's feeling much better today  and shall attempt a macaroni cheese for supper.
Edit: and it's the Geminid meteor shower - going on now, wrap up warm and go and take a look - Met Eireann is recommending you wrap up warm in a sunlounger. Huh!!!