cozy inside our cottage ("Sunset Cottage", Fenore, County Clare, 2006)

The wind could blow outside, the walls of this old cottage were thick stone, and an open fire helped too. At night, we could watch the stars and the moon through a skylight from the upstairs bedroom, unless it was cloudy and pouring down while we listened to the incessant rumble of the Atlantic waves below - only 40 metres away, just across from the road along our cottage. The power generator regularly tripped its fuse, so I had to brave the driving rain in the pitch darkness to get to the shed where the switches were. In the meantime, Thelma tossed another log onto the fire, but she warmed me more with her smile than any blaze in the fireplace. ..................................... ༺ "𝓢𝓾𝓷𝓼𝓮𝓽 𝓒𝓸𝓽𝓽𝓪𝓰𝓮" ༺ (𝓽𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓻𝓮𝓷𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓭 𝓲𝓽 𝓽𝓸 "𝓢𝓮𝓪𝓼𝓬𝓪𝓹𝓮 𝓒𝓸𝓽𝓽𝓪𝓰𝓮" 𝓼𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓬𝓵𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓪𝔀𝓪𝔂 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓱𝓻𝓾𝓫𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓻𝓮𝓮𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓼𝓱𝓮𝓭𝓼 - 𝓪 𝓹𝓲𝓽𝔂) ༻ 𝓲𝓼 𝓼𝓲𝓽𝓾𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓸𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 "𝓦𝓲𝓵𝓭 𝓐𝓽𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓬 𝓦𝓪𝔂". 𝓘𝓽𝓼 𝓶𝓪𝓹 𝓬𝓸𝓸𝓻𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓼 𝓪𝓻𝓮: 53.087053, -9.317449 (𝓲𝓯 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓬𝓸𝓹𝔂/𝓹𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓼 𝓲𝓷𝓽𝓸 𝓖𝓸𝓸𝓰𝓵𝓮 𝓜𝓪𝓹 - 𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓸𝓼𝓮 "𝓼𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓵𝓵𝓲𝓽𝓮 𝓿𝓲𝓮𝔀", 𝔀𝓱𝓲𝓬𝓱 𝔀𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓰𝓲𝓿𝓮 𝓪 𝓰𝓸𝓸𝓭 𝓯𝓮𝓮𝓵 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓬𝓵𝓸𝓼𝓮𝓷𝓮𝓼𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓐𝓽𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓬 -, 𝔂𝓸𝓾'𝓵𝓵 𝓼𝓮𝓮 𝓮𝔁𝓪𝓬𝓽𝓵𝔂 𝔀𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝔀𝓮 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝔂𝓮𝓭 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓼 𝔀𝓸𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓯𝓾𝓵 𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓹). ༻