(Ballycastle beach, 20/6/20) Exactly seven years ago the first proper blog post on emeraldscribe was published. It seems a lifetime ago, and yet it is quite apt and timely […]
Just over three months ago today, the world as we knew it ended for me personally, and within a couple of weeks, most of you too. I flew home from […]
Tonight I begin with a few prefaces. First of all, as they say in my part of the world, “don’t eat me” if you disagree with any of this. We […]
HERE’S AN over 100-year-old Irish oak chair I had the priviledge of restoring this past week or so of further pandemic lockdown in Northern Ireland. It was thrown out for […]
SO BORIS is back to work. Prayers have been answered, one might say. (And as I’ve written quite openly before, I’m not politically a huge fan of Boris Johnson, but I […]
ALMOST forgot to post before the week is out. In the interests of integrity because I said I would, here’s a wee visual of how the pallet effort progressed yesterday. […]
THERE’S so much I could write about the last 10 days, in this covid-19 pandemic lockdown, but I’m going to refrain myself in this post. I will say here that I’m […]
TODAY’S POST almost hasn’t happened. But I decided to keep the discipline and fulfill what I wrote I would last time, of posting again “on Sunday”. One of the good […]
A VERY interesting unexpected thing is happening since I’ve started posting these pathetic wee covid-19 period blog posts. This blog site has been receiving new and unexpected traffic from China almost […]
SPRING HAS sprung here in Northern Ireland, and yet it’s hard to fully appreciate it since the whole country and entire British Isles are on complete lockdown now due to […]
Sixteen weeks on from the Redding accident I decided to vulnerably share about in April, the sun is gratefully able to be felt once again on my skin. Time can […]
My heart is very, very heavy ongoingly today, ever since I discovered almost by chance late on Thursday evening UK time, that my second home of Redding was about to […]
This will be my last post of the year, before closing the laptop for 2017 and enjoying Christmas mostly away from technology. I have driven home from Northern California to […]
Reflections on my summer pictures continued…number 4… Enjoy! (Dunluce Castle sunset, North Coast of Northern Ireland, in July 2017). copyright L. Dunlop
Continuing my own countdown to returning back home soon, here’s another stunning photograph I took in the summer of my beloved land, Northern Ireland. This is of White Park Bay, […]
Over the rest of December, as I prepare for going back home, I will be posting at least a few random posts about Northern Ireland, photographs or otherwise. This will […]
(Taken on Easter Monday, 17/04/17, Co. Antrim, N. Ireland. copyright L. Dunlop) “Three lambs a leaping…”
THIS very afternoon just two weeks ago I went round to pray for a local father figure, someone I respect and cared for very much, a real rock solid background […]
21st December in the northern hemisphere isn’t renowned for glorious sunny days, but today is a crisp, cold sunny one in the North Coast of Northern Ireland, so I thought […]
No place quite like the beauty of North Antrim, Northern Ireland. The days may be short this time of year, but the sunsets can still be stunning.
LAST WEEKEND I wrote of my authentic experience at ‘The Auction Room’ in Maghera, and told you about the great coffee, food and ambiance on offer to residents and commuters […]
THE UNEXPECTED ADVENTURES within this year, often because of the fierce adversity thrown in the beginning of 2016, (but not a surprise to my ultimate guide) have been quite amazing. […]
THIS DAY in 1963 saw the dark departure from this earth of a writer of incredible latent talent and ability, C.S. Lewis, who also happens to have been from the […]
FIVE WEEKS ago I posted a poignant article about a beautiful young lady who passed on to the next life. A bit of a ‘taboo’ subject, perhaps, but something close […]
