Gillian Corcoran
There is always something beautiful to behold with @lostforestjewellery, where Gillian Corcoran shares her nature-inspired jewellery collections that combine native wildflowers and organic curiosities foraged from the fields and hedgerows of the Cavan dairy farm she is happy to call home.
Instagram Inspiration: There is always something beautiful to behold @lostforestjewellery , where Gillian Corcoran shares her nature-inspired jewellery collections.
But her account is also an ode to Mother Nature herself in all her glory – whether it’s a glossy blackberry hanging beguilingly from a briar or the delicate span of a tortoiseshell butterfly wing. Whoever said that diamonds were a girl’s best friend got it wrong.
Picture of the week: Luke and Grace Wall flying a kite on the family farm in Co Limerick. \ Martha Bermingham
Half an autumn’s morn’
– by Tom Power
I stood and watched the combined move through a field of corn,
it cut and threshed that field of oats in half an autumn’s morn’;
I watched the tractor move in close, the ripened grain to take,
I listened - but alas, in vain to hear the corncrake.
To my mind then came a vision of that field of long ago
and all the work it would take, that field of oats to grow.
Two horses, man, one sod plough, and the field turning brown,
off, off, come in, words you’d hear, and seagulls circling round.
then you’d start to harrow, and that would keep you fit,
all day long you walked behind, as the horses chomped the bit;
Manure, and then sower, and half the work was done,
and you prayed for Aprils showers, followed by summer sun.
Coming across the valley, carried on a gentle breeze,
the sound of the reaper and binder circling the field;
As the standing corn got smaller, of the bundles there were more,
they were gathered by the workmen into stooks of four,
from stooks they would make stacks, that was a special skill,
as a youth I learned to make them, I could make them still.
Once more they’d tackle horses, this time to pull a cart,
The corn was hauled to the haggard, and on the rick they’d start;
and when they had it finished, sure they felt a little proud,
you would see them walk around it and survey it from the ground.
Soon would come the thresher and give two days threshing corn,
but now; now they cut and thresh in half an autumn’s morn’.
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What your max waist measurement should be in cm if you are 160cm tall (5ft2) to protect yourself from type 2 diabetes
Sometimes it’s better to make your own pastry bases – for example, a shortcrust, hot water pastry or sweet sablee, in my opinion, is always better when handmade.
That said, shop-bought pastry can be just as good, if not better, than what you can make at home.
Puff pastry takes a lot of time and effort, and there are some great chilled or frozen options out there.
The same goes for filo pastry if you enjoy desserts like baklava or Greek-style spinach and feta pies.
If you can, when buying shop-bought pastry bases, look for those made with butter as opposed to margarine.
This is especially important in puff-pastry, where butter is practically the star of the show.
From our cover star, Nuala Moore.
You don’t have to test your limits, life does that
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A Week in the Country
A week in the Country
Gillian Corcoran
There is always something beautiful to behold with @lostforestjewellery, where Gillian Corcoran shares her nature-inspired jewellery collections that combine native wildflowers and organic curiosities foraged from the fields and hedgerows of the Cavan dairy farm she is happy to call home.
Instagram Inspiration: There is always something beautiful to behold @lostforestjewellery , where Gillian Corcoran shares her nature-inspired jewellery collections.
But her account is also an ode to Mother Nature herself in all her glory – whether it’s a glossy blackberry hanging beguilingly from a briar or the delicate span of a tortoiseshell butterfly wing. Whoever said that diamonds were a girl’s best friend got it wrong.
Picture of the week: Luke and Grace Wall flying a kite on the family farm in Co Limerick. \ Martha Bermingham
Half an autumn’s morn’
– by Tom Power
I stood and watched the combined move through a field of corn,
it cut and threshed that field of oats in half an autumn’s morn’;
I watched the tractor move in close, the ripened grain to take,
I listened - but alas, in vain to hear the corncrake.
To my mind then came a vision of that field of long ago
and all the work it would take, that field of oats to grow.
Two horses, man, one sod plough, and the field turning brown,
off, off, come in, words you’d hear, and seagulls circling round.
then you’d start to harrow, and that would keep you fit,
all day long you walked behind, as the horses chomped the bit;
Manure, and then sower, and half the work was done,
and you prayed for Aprils showers, followed by summer sun.
Coming across the valley, carried on a gentle breeze,
the sound of the reaper and binder circling the field;
As the standing corn got smaller, of the bundles there were more,
they were gathered by the workmen into stooks of four,
from stooks they would make stacks, that was a special skill,
as a youth I learned to make them, I could make them still.
Once more they’d tackle horses, this time to pull a cart,
The corn was hauled to the haggard, and on the rick they’d start;
and when they had it finished, sure they felt a little proud,
you would see them walk around it and survey it from the ground.
Soon would come the thresher and give two days threshing corn,
but now; now they cut and thresh in half an autumn’s morn’.
80
What your max waist measurement should be in cm if you are 160cm tall (5ft2) to protect yourself from type 2 diabetes
Sometimes it’s better to make your own pastry bases – for example, a shortcrust, hot water pastry or sweet sablee, in my opinion, is always better when handmade.
That said, shop-bought pastry can be just as good, if not better, than what you can make at home.
Puff pastry takes a lot of time and effort, and there are some great chilled or frozen options out there.
The same goes for filo pastry if you enjoy desserts like baklava or Greek-style spinach and feta pies.
If you can, when buying shop-bought pastry bases, look for those made with butter as opposed to margarine.
This is especially important in puff-pastry, where butter is practically the star of the show.
From our cover star, Nuala Moore.
You don’t have to test your limits, life does that
Read more
A Week in the Country
A week in the Country
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