Memorial mass for Tim

Another mass is scheduled for Tim, in Dalkey Catholic Church on Saturday the 15th September at 6pm, as his name was not included in the previous mass due to an oversight by the priest's secretary.

Lucy In The Sea With Diamonds...

... or perhaps emeralds! She has been blowing our minds at the vico for the last few nights, with her spectacular green phosphorescent light show.
The following description of the phenomenon is from the Trinity Education Centre:

Dinoflagellates are microscopic single-celled algae which float freely in
oceans and waterways throughout the world.  They are a major part of the
phytoplankton which is at the base of most aquatic food chains.

Not all species of dinoflagellate are bioluminescent but some are.
Normally there are so few of the bioluminescent species in the water that
we do not notice that they are there.  However, dinoflagellates sometimes
produce blooms in which a particular species overproduces and becomes very
very abundant.  We don't know exactly why the aquatic ecosystems become so
over-balanced and this is an area of 'hot' research.  In some cases it
appears that the blooms may be the result of excess nutrients in the water
from human activities.

So they may provide further proof of the "human activities" floating by at the Vico from all those nappies!
(c.f. Richard Shakespeare quote in Irish Independent from the Seapoint Raped Of Blue Flag post.)

Seapoint Raped Of Blue Flag

"All the time, it was...we finally really did it!!
You maniacs! You blew it up!
Ah, damn you! God...damn you all to hell!"

Irish Independent Wed 5 Sept '07

Horizontal red line is maximum allowable pollution!

Subsequent readings also failed to comply.

What can you say, only it's not surprising!

Baywatch 3/Sep/07

The Vico board was once again used to offer assistance to a swimmer who had gone a bit too far out and been carried towards the island by the streams. The swimmer, who would probably have been fine, was very glad to take a rest on the back of the board and be towed towards home for a short distance while recovering his strength.
This blogger has placed an order for a can of red surfboard paint and some tight fitting red T-shirts, with expandable waists, following the swimmer's friend inquiring if i worked there!
Seriously though, had the board been up the hill were Mick Dunne suggested it should be "hidden", the launch of this operation would have been much slower, with possibly a worse outcome for the unfortunate swimmer.
My point is that we really MUST have group solidarity if the council decide to relinquish their disinterested stance on the Vico again, and insist that the board be removed.
Individually, we are but the links of a chain - join us together though, and we can anchor that board to the Vico.

A Few Friends in Dalkey 27 Jan '07

Bren, Steve, Fergal, Santi, Rabha, Dermot, Jim, Tamara, Tim (Late), Francis (photographer), Mike (off in the sun!)

Two Umbellifers

Yarrow and wild carrot - both with umbrella shaped flowerheads.

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