So Dermot, is it Carrick -on- Shannon or -in- Shannon that my ancestors lived?
Thanks for the well wishes, I hope you dry out soon! Is that the remnants of Hurricane Ida that just missed us in Gulfport last week?
That's the place Tim, and a lot of the town is in the Shannon at the moment. You got out just in time

The lows have been rolling in off the Atlantic for a month now, bringing lots of rain. There are times that I wonder what we're doing on this soggy bit of land off the west coast of Europe.