Many thanks to all those who came out to walk yesterday. Beautiful day and beautiful walk in good company. Claudine would have loved it. We'll update you with how much was raised for CFR in the next few weeks. Thanks to Bríd for photos (small selection below) which capture the beauty of this part of Clare.
The weather was one of the many topics of conversation. It was unnaturally mild, more like a day in Spring rather than January 1st, with scatters of daisies and dandelions covering the fields. I was reminded of the mild morning and daisy-filled fields while watching the weather forecast after the 9 o'clock news last night where the forecaster Siobhán Ryan observed that the extreme weather conditions in 2018 were caused directly by human action. On the first morning of the new year, here was direct evidence for climate change along the beautiful Flaggy Shore. It's incongruous to feel so terrible about seeing daisies and dandelions growing in a field but it is a sharp reminder that the world we live in is a limited resource. This is it folks and unless we change now, it will be lost to us. What a loss it will be.
Wishing you all good walking for 2019 and hoping you make it your year for change.
