Because of the mild weather lately people have been out cutting the lawns since well before St Patrick’s day. This is the first mow that our garden has got this year.

This is Belfast author Tony Macauley doing a reading from his book “Paperboy”  at St Patrick’s Academy Dungannon. It was as part of an event jointly organised by The Peace Factory Dungannon and The Conflicts of Interest  project of which I am the coordinator. (Taken with an iphone hence the dodgy quality)

It’s springtime in Ardboe Co Tyrone. This is the Killmaskelly Road close to where my  father and my sister and her family live.

Campaigners against The Household and Water Tax protest outside the Monaghan office of the local Fine Gael TD Heather Humphreys.

This is Seamus Heaney’s Head which is in the foyer of the new Lyric Theatre Belfast. It’s by Philip Flanagan. My favourite Heaney poem is Mid Term Break

Mid-Term Break

This is the cast of “The Vagina Monologues” which played at The Craic Theatre. Lynda Bryans, Olivia Nash and Laragh Cullen. Lynda was a well known broadcaster journalist and presenter on UTV live news programme for many years. The last time I met Olivia was about six or seven years ago when I got a job as an extra on the BBC comedy “Give My Head Peace” Olivia played “Ma” and in the scene four of us were members of her 1970’s band “The Lenadoonettes”  We played our instruments wearing balaclavas!! Laragh up until recently was a drama facilitator at Craic and has appeared in a number of our productions. She is an exceptionally talented actress.

Spotted this Victorian Post Box embedded in a old gate pillar on the Grange Road outside Cookstown Co Tyrone.  The “VR” just above the letter slot indicates its from pre 1901.

This old fashioned red phone box is on the Annaghone Road between Stewartstown and Cookstown. With the mobile phone these will soon be a thing of the past.

This is Barry Kerr one of the finest multi instrumentalist, songwriter and artists in the country. Barry was appearing in Tony Devlin’s play “1981” at The Craic Theatre on wednesday evening. The only instrument that Barry doesn’t play is the fiddle. His sister Laura is the fiddle player in the Kerr family and she has warned him that if she sees him with a fiddle in his hands there would be trouble!

Barry recorded his first solo album at age seventeen he has gone on to tour the world (he is just back from Australia) both as a solo performer and in the company of artists such as Cara Dillon, Phil Coulter and At First Light. His songs and compositions have been recorded by the likes of Karan Casey, Flook, Beoga, Brian Finnegan, Damian O’Kane and Kate Rusby. As a painter he is fast becoming an important figure in contemporary Irish Art,exhibiting at home and abroad to high critical acclaim. Check out his website Barry Kerr.com