McAWilliams Photoblog

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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Sorry about the delay in this image coming up but we have been a bit bogged down with stuff, Paula’s aunt is in a critical condition in hospital at the moment, because of three aneurysms been found after she had a stroke. Also our house seems to have unwanted visitors at the moment, ants, and not crawling along the floor but coming out from the spotlights on our ground floor, so its been fun trying to tackle them.

Anyhow this is a photograph of the new, still unopened, pedestrian bridge that connects Bray to Enniskerry. It spans across the N11 dual carraigeway and looks fantastic as it goes from one side to the other with no supports except at each end.

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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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Bray always has a summerfest and one of the big attractions is the big wheel that is perched on the side of Bray Head, with a cliff to its side. Dodgy.

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The chippie along the Promenade in Bray, I tell you something the chips there are only fantastic, well worth a visit.

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Is this seaweed nuclear, I have never seen such green seaweed before, its nearly luminous.

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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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