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Storm Fionn was a lively little devil last night - much rattling and roaring. A large Persian puss came into the conservatory to shelter and terrorise the locals! 

A day of pootling and doing useful things. I went in search of a well and there were roads works where I though it was, either that or a Lidl has been built on top of it.  I will have to return. 

This is the description of how the well originated (kindly translated from Irish by Finola):

The Magic Well
There is a … well beside Donemark and the people of that place have a story about fairies that would be seen in that place in the course of each night long ago. She asked everybody who saw her a question and if he didn’t answer the question she murdered him

A lot of people fail(ed) and the people of the parish were afraid of the sprite.In the end, the queen of the place heard the story and she put out an announcement that she would marry the man who killed the fairy.
She was a widow. She had a son also but she …… him when he was very young. He lived in the mountains and he had no knowledge of his people. He heard the story about the fairy and one night he set out to track it down. When the prince came, the fairy put this question to him
Something with four legs under him in the morning, two feet under him at mid-day and three feet under him in the afternoon. What is it? “The life of man” said the man “infants, grown people and old people.” He was right.
With that, the fairy went away and a well arose out of the place where it had been.
The queen and the prince got married But a couple of days afterwards she found out that it was her own son and she threw herself into the well. When the prince heard the story, he went mad (queer in the head).


Blimey! What an amazing medley of Irish tales, traditional fairystory and Greek Tragedy. I believe the Sphinx asked the same question of Oedipus and he too got it correct with grim results. There is a theory that the Irish are originated from the Greeks - proof here of course!


Today's abstract courtsey of Ingeborg's challenge - not that mysyerious but some nice colours and patterns.