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Hello and welcome to McAWilliams.com the new improved version, but more about that later.

This photograph was taken up on the new bridge which connects Bray with Enniskerry, which opened last week. I am getting home at 7pm ish so I decided to try a traffic zooming by type shot, I think this worked quite well, anyhow onto the main story.

As you may well know, Movabletype 4 proved to be a big headache for me, so much so that I decided to change platform all together and move to Wordpress. I thought it would be easy enough, how mistaken I was the install etc was fantastic and to be fair to the Wordpress programmers they aint lied about the fact it is quite easy. My problem was how I used Moveabletype over the years.

I coded all the templates in Movabletype myself and as such used the default entry page in a strange way, I had also created custom entry fields using a plugin for the likes of meta keywords and descriptions etc, these fields unfortunately did not transfer to the database I had to create for Wordpress, and in the mayhem I lost all the details I had spent years entering.

So with Wordpress I had to start from scratch all that remained from the old site were the entry details and comments but all pictures keywords descriptions for 411 entries had to be re-entered from scratch, hence the delay.

I am using a theme for now but will be modifying this to get some originality back into McAWilliams.com, and what do I think of Wordpress, well as I told Caitriona tonight I aint looking back.

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Oct
28

Bray seafront clouds moving in

Posted by McAWilliams under Bray, Sky
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Jesus what a week, Rebecca gets over a chest infection then comes down with conjunctivitis, then I get the vomiting bug things start breaking down at home and life cant get any worse.

Well looking at the clouds coming in over Bray it actually could get worse and did today, started of beautiful with sun and a bit of a breeze then down came the rain, etc etc.

Well thats what happens in Ireland.

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Aug
19

Forest Pathway

Posted by McAWilliams under Bray, Nature
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This is my new walkway home from work since I found a new bus route to take me home that saves me 40 minutes commuting. More can be found about this amazing bus service over at another blog I contribute to.

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Aug
12

Bray Seafront summer fest big wheel

Posted by McAWilliams under Bray
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Another photograph taken down at Bray Seafront, this time while summer fest 2007 was on. Bray holds this event every summer during the month of July. It all starts with a huge fireworks display and concerts. The concerts keep going throughout the month aswell as a large funfair down on the promenade itself.

This big wheel has been a huge feature of the festival for many many years, and has even made its way to this photoblog before, way back in 2005 when I witnessed the dodgy wheel for the first time, alas this is the last time Bray will witness it as it shall never return again.

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Aug
08

Bray seafront driftwood

Posted by McAWilliams under Bray
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This was a huge branch that was washed up on Bray seafront. As soon as I saw it I just had to get a shot of it, I hope you enjoy it.

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Jun
17

Rough Seas

Posted by McAWilliams under Bray
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Well Rebecca is on the mend, yippee! so I should be out and about with the camera again yippee yippee!

This is a shot taken some time ago down at bray seafront when the waves were absolutely mental.

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Apr
25

Throwing Stones

Posted by McAWilliams under Bray, Fun
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Two friends of mine called out today and down to the seafront we all went, this is a photo of Terry and his 2 kids throwing stones into the water on bray seafront

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