floating boater

My blogs

Gender	Female
Location	East Clare, Ireland
Introduction	Two blogs now. Floating Boater is mostly about our life on the waterways of Ireland on Winter Solstice, our timber cruiser. She's a Rampart 32 built in 1969 in Southampton. She was one of the last this size to come out of the Rampart boatyard – plastic was the material of the future. So a classic but with a definite sixties bent. Every summer we take off on the astonishingly varied waterways of Ireland and enter another, sweeter world. In between I tend my vegetables, look after our acre or so of garden in East Clare, write poetry, and teach and play flute. I occasionally have to do other paid work too. We're on the move from our present house and I have a new acre to begin. So Mucky Fingernails is the gardening wing. It's a record of the creation of a new garden, starting from an open field.
Interests	Writing, reading, playing tunes, sailing & cruising, growing vegetables and flowers, cycling, cooking.
Favorite Music	Paolo Nutini, Lúnasa, JS Bach, Tommy Peoples, Corelli, Aretha Franklin, Matt Molloy, Madeleine Peyroux, Joe Cocker, Paloma Faith
Favorite Books	Cat's Eye, Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, Martha Quest series, Shikasta series by Doris Lessing, Remains of Elmet by Ted Huges & Fay Godwin, Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín, Memoir by John McGahern, Crow by Ted Hughes, The Wrecking Light by Robin Robertson.