Scarecrows interrupt plotting...

Monumentally distracted from writing today by the extraordinary Durrow Scarecrow Festival. I'd meant to go for a few years now and never quite made it, so I was determined to do so this year. I also have a project (half-academic, half-creative) percolating in my brain to do with Irish Folk Gothic, and I rather thought the tip could be classified under - and therefore justified as - fieldwork.   The festival is nothing short of amazing. There's an official 'contained' scarecrow village in the