A Cocoon With A View

Back in the last weeks of February, which now feels like a hundred years ago, we here in Innishannon were busy planning what was  termed 'The Big Rake Off' of the dead grass on the long sloping bank beside the road coming into the village. Happily unaware of forthcoming events, we were totally focused on creating our wild flower bank: to get something like this going you need a 'metheal', a word w...