June 13 2001

Hello to Dave and Rosanna in the Normandy who have just joined the elite group of signatories of my guestbook. You know, this page is full of silly stuff about birds but it doesn't have to be all birds and occasionally I will wander off somewhere else. A Bird's Eye View came into my mind a while ago. Where would you get one of them while still standing on the ground. Well we went down the Mullingar road there last year and went on beyond Mullingar on the Ballymore road to the Hill of Uisneach. It is only about 600 feet above sea level at the top but because it stands in the middle of the flat central plain which makes up much of the acreage of Ireland, you get a most fantastic 360 degree view of the country-side around. For many many centuries the reigning Kings of Ireland held court here with their chieftons and subjects to bring in laws, carry out marriages, oversee sporting occasions etc.