Ah, Sligo! That is an evocative name for me. When I'm not playing photographer, I play the flute, and I have attended several times a summer flute festival in Nova Scotia, called Boxwood. There I have met and heard some wonderful flutists from Sligo, playing Irish traditional tunes. Mesmerizing music.
As for the good old wet darkroom days, I well remember a transitional moment when I had acquired a copy of Photoshop, a scanner, and a small Epson printer, and I was trying hard to learn how to deal with numbers and sliders, etc., in Photoshop, trying to get digital prints from scanned negatives that might be good enough to show people. In frustration I often gave up on Photoshop and went back into my darkroom to make some "real prints."
On one such occasion, I was just checking the first wet print, considering how to burn and dodge to improve it, when it suddenly occurred to me that what I wanted to do would be so much easier in Photoshop.
And that's how I went over to the Dark Side, and bought a digital camera soon after.
Cheers,
Eric