Tough winter ahead

Irish proverb:
If the front gate gets a woolly scarf, the heating oil merchant is having a laugh.

This is Ri Meehan at work. She is one of the artists taking part in the Anaesthetic intervention in and around Dun Laoghaire.
I will make sure to check them out.
I must say that what she was up to really caught my eye and I saw many passers by doing a double take.
My feeling is that she'll have a fairly sore back tonight, but one has to suffer for ones art.

Something else totally unexpected happened during my lunch break.
I saw gardai (members of the Irish police) running!
And even more than the 4 squad cars with flashing blue lights and stationary helicopter above, this was a truly beautiful and breathtaking sight.
One could tell that many breakfast rolls and idle hours spent in the squad car had passed between that youthful photograph of a happy bunch throwing their navy blue hats in the air upon graduation at Templemore and that mad dash to apprehend suspects. I don't know if the gardai have recurring sprint training, but these two would have been classified as "coronary risk level red (dark red)"