Eimear can't believe her dissertation is finally finished
on the first day of their outdoor season. It was beautiful, the sun was low over the field, the grass was sparkling and everyone was in a good mood!
And they had brought along a metal detector to help locate arrows lost and burrowed into the ground.
There were moments of drama when a couple of dogs and a guy on a tractor roared onto the firing range…. there is some excuse for the dogs, although the owner seemed to find it rather unreasonable when asked to call them away!
There were guys playing hurley in the field beside us. As the evening went on the only sounds that could be heard were the sharp slap of the slither on ash, and the thunk of arrows into the targets.
Bliss.