Photo was taken yesterday at Millstreet Country Park, Co.Cork (Irl)

A Traditional Crafts and Blacksmithing Fair took place over the past four days in Millstreet Country Park. It was an outstanding success with huge crowds enjoying lovely sunshine and coming to view a whole variety of crafts and traditional skills on display.

Thought on Monday – May – 07/05/2012

‘The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that and live that way, you are a really wise person.’ ~Euripides

There was a big turnout this weekend for the Traditional Crafts and Blacksmithing Fair which took place in Millstreet Country Park. The beautiful fine weather was a huge help but there is massive interest today in how things were done in the past. Technology advances have been quite incredible in recent years and it has made life so much easier. But sometimes these advances have been so fast, that the way of doing things in the past was quickly forgotten. This is all changing. The way of doing things in the past was clearly simple and down to earth. It always met simple needs of warmth, food and shelter. There were fewer pressures, less stress and people were much more content with a simple and relaxed pace to life. Today people realise that we may have left something behind in all our advances. We are now searching again for those bits and pieces that can and will bring balance to our lives. It is not something buried in the past but very much within our reach today.