The Little Book Of Swinging On A Gate (ANOTHER LITTLE BOOK FROM BALLYYAHOO 2)

All I want is to stay here in Ballyyahoo, but have way, way more craic! To be really honest, I think Ballyyahoo would be way better if a few scary things happened every now and then. Last time there was a bit of craic around here was when my cousin, Kevin, did up a load of posters on his computer, and spread them all over the town.

Even rusty old gates have their good points — they keep the cows from coming in and eating our garden, and stop my mother from going mad. My mother, like a lot of mothers in Ballyyahoo, goes mad now and then. She says cattle eating the garden drive her madder, but she says it was me swinging on the gate that drove her mad in the first place. She hates me doing nothing. She says that I should not be spending my whole life swinging on a gate, like some kind of eejit.

She also says that I should be helpful in the community, so she tries to find me things to do. But, apart from doing boring jobs for old people, like digging their gardens, and cleaning their gutters, even my mother finds it hard to find things to do around Ballyyahoo. My mother says that there is absolutely no witch in Ballyyahoo. Rumours are great craic. Everybody loves rumours, and everybody loves adding a bit more scandal to a rumour. When Sergeant Sid gets a bit bored, most people stay indoors, because he likes to invent new crimes and laws.

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Some of his new crimes are things like — looking crooked, smelling like you fell in a cow-pat, picking hazelnuts without a license, and eating chips the wrong way up. Last week he even decided that wearing odd socks was a crime. I had to spend hours doing it as well because he wanted to see his face in it. Come to think of it, we only really have half a Gard! No, it means we only have Sergeant Sid from nine to one. In the afternoons, he goes to Ballyuseless. I think he probably goes to bed and dreams about them. You see, since nobody knows where Ballyyahoo is, nobody knows where to bring the pipes.

Sergeant Sid had been really, really bored and set up a roadblock to catch robbers, murderers, and psychos. Not a juicy one but a boring one.

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Still, when one rumour stops in Ballyyahoo, another one starts. Ballyyahooians are pretty good at making things up. My teacher says that fact can be stranger than fiction.

If fact really can be stranger than fiction, then it must be true about the witch in Ballyyahoo. I asked my parents, but they just laughed. Auntie Aggie said that if there was a prize going for starting rumours and making things up, the people of Ballyyahoo would win it, and then they started arguing about whether the Mick the serial killer rumour was better than the Banshee rumour. Auntie Aggie said the Banshee rumour would win the prize — hands down! My dad was an immigrant from Wicklow in Ireland and he met my Liverpudlian mum at a dance.

But I loved writing stories and spending time sitting up in bed, or sitting on the doorstep; making up a world I liked better than the one I was in.

Between writing diaries and short stories I never really stopped writing. However, I became more serious about it after a marriage break up in the nineties and returned to education to study film and television. After leaving college I wrote and directed several award winning short films. These were screened both at International Film Festivals and broadcast on television.

I also produced and directed documentary for television in Ireland. There is lots of information, learning material and extras for both parents and children to supplement these books here at www. You can listen in the car, or when out walking, or even when you are too tired to read. I first became aware of the power of listening to books when my mother was dying of cancer. She was too ill to read and so we […] The post Audible Books — loving listening.

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Inspirational poems — persist. Inspirational poems can lift your spirits when you are feeling low. One of my favourites is the one below. We can struggle with motivation. One day we […] The post Inspirational poems — persist appeared first on. The Stinging Fly Stories Anthology. But the Stinging Fly has not just survived but has thrived. As you can guess I love nature. I built this Ballyyahoo website to encourage children to get out and about and explore the great outdoors. I live in Galway, near the beautiful Burren and I go walking every day.

I bring my camera along to capture what I see so I can share my pictures with Ballyyahoo. Christmas in Freebie Land. For me, it has flown in a torrent of words and I have managed to produce two full-length books, two novellas plus a host of short stories. This is a contentious debate as there are many who feel that just being able to write a book is enough. But I have read some books that should never have been published because the quality of the writing is so bad and they are completely unedited or proofread.

Biddy, The Witch of Ballyyahoo, loves to go walking. She always starts off with a walk down the lane you see on the right. She loves following the little trails and paths through the woodlands of Ballyyahoo. She says you never know where they might lead. Not much goes wrong in Ballyyahoo but if something does you can b. The stories include links to other fun stories and photographs about the characters and nature of Ballyyahoo If this is your very first visit to Ballyyahoo you might want to start at the beginning: Click here to read the 1st episode.

If you have read episodes one and two then read on for episode three. Learn what happened to Maggie Many Cats and the lost kittens of Ballyyahoo. Cat care — this is Episode 2 Click here to read the 1st episode of this story: Baby Kittens arrive in Ballyyahoo. Cat care is very important and Maggie Many cats really cares about her cats.

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One day, Maggie found some abandoned kittens in the Witchy Woods. She took them home, fed them carefully and made sure they were lovely and cosy in her warm kitchen. You can read about the day Maggie found those baby kittens here. The kittens seemed happy and healthy but Mag. Baby Kittens Arrive in Ballyyahoo — Episode 1. But sadly, not everybody cares for them. A few weeks ago, when she was out looking for hazelnuts and blackberries in the Witchy Woods she found some baby kittens.

The poor little things were hiding among some ferns. Ducks are happy in Ballyyahoo and none are happier than the ducks that live in the garden of Cori-the hen woman. Cori feeds her ducks on barley, oats and other grains. She also has a small pond as ducks need plenty of water to swim and preen.

These ducks are free range. Other ducks are not so lucky. Many of them are kept in sheds with no room to roam about. Disaster strikes Ballyyahoo when Santa and Rudolph turn up on Christmas Eve and instead of leaving gifts, they steal all the presents away. Kevin and Gerry try their very best to save Christmas. Other Species of Irish Deer. There are some species of Irish deer in Ballyyahoo but all of them are the fallow deer and you can read about them here. The Sika are fairly small and the males stags weigh between 50 and 60kg.

For Cori-the-hen woman there was more than a surprise when Tweetie was born.