#stiltwalker

So it resumes.. if last weekend was a gentle warm up for Halloween, we are now onto the main event 9 days straight, with multiple activities in various parts of the country. Kicking things off with Bunratty

Parkrun day today, and it’s a bank holiday weekend. Irelands newest BHW in fact, which came into effect last year. Saint Bridget is Irelands 2nd patron saint, alongside Saint Patrick, and ‘Biddys day’

Day 2 of the Halloween gigs, which saw me passing the halfway point. Todays work started with 90 minute drive, followed by 3 hours of stiltwalking as the Devil (again). Then it was a quick scrub to remove

No parkrun for me today, I’m banned because I was too motivated to help people last Halloween I ran there ;-) Before setting out for 4days of Halloween work, I made a note of the mileage of the car.. Guess

It’s not often I’m the small one. A fun day in Limerick city with a troupe of 15 performers. 27 minutes to do Limerick Parkrun in the morning so my legs were well warmed up for the gig. This report was

It was a long day at work for me, and that’s not a tall tale! I got in the car at 05:00 & on stilts before 07:30. Spent the day meeting and greeting shoppers at a the opening day of a large supermarket

An 8ft tall Uncle Sam. I was part of the press launch for the 4th of July celebrations in Killarney this year. Wanting to do just to this iconic figure, I based the costume on the waxwork from Madam Tussauds

Another day, another gig. I’m usually in school on Wednesdays, but today I’m at college. University of Limerick ‘picnic on the plaza’ family day for staff. 3 hours of stiltwalking, very high 5’s, and

Most of my steps were done in my long form today.. on stilts, for a parade celebrating May Day. So 90 minutes of walking in a parade (including time milling about as all the various groups found their

Almost 21k steps today, but I only did about 1,000 of them on my own 2 feet. I was in full costume, and wearing wooden ‘peg’ stilts for the rest of them. You could call it the ‘leg day’ from hell! This

A Stilt walker. I have never seen one in my entire life. In movies and Tv, yes. I never thought that I'd feel excited to have seen one. This was taken in the new Dubai Safari.