I have some great news for you all.

I am giving you all a holiday.

In less than a week’s time this site will be dormant.  No longer will you have to rush to read my latest daily drivel.  No longer will you have to rack your brains trying [and failing] to come up with witty comments.

So what’s the story, you ask?

I’m getting outa here.

I’m getting a little weary sitting here starting at the mountains with the sea in the distance, so I am going somewhere where I can stare at the sea with the mountains in the distance.  It’s a subtle difference, but it is a difference nonetheless.

I shall be heading South.  If you take a look at a map of Ireland, I shall be down there in the furthest recesses of the bottom left corner.  To say it is remote is putting it mildly.  I shall have no Interweb there, and I doubt if they have even heard of it in the area.  I’ll count myself lucky if there is electricity.

I’m going there for a few reasons.

My prime objective is to do nothing.  I’m quite good at that but I intend to perfect my technique.  In the event I fail, I may do some photography.  Or I might do a little writing.  Or I may just sit on the rocks at the bottom of the garden and watch the Atlantic waves wash over the rock-pools.  Though knowing my luck it will be more than likely Atlantic breakers washing over the garden and into the house.

I like it down there.  I have spent more holidays down there than most people have had hot saunas.  I know the area almost like the back of my hand [assuming I have been so bored as to spend my time studying the back of my hand?].  In fact I have harboured dreams of living there.  It’s quieter than here, and the climate is a little milder.  It’s about as far as anyone can get from officialdom and rumour has it that the water isn’t just diluted fluoride.  So I may spend some idle time looking at the property market down there.  Last time I was there I did the same and liked what I saw.

I would miss Spanner, Pullit and the gang but they have their own Spanners, Pullits and gangs down there who by all accounts are as eccentric as the mob here so I think I might fit in well.  

So how long will this holiday last?

God knows.

Provisionally it’s for a couple of weeks but that can be extended.

Who knows?  I may never come back.