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It was raining when I left Bundoran this morning. It rained all the way to Derry, where we filmed a sequence about Ireland's forestation for the Blueprint series, and it's still raining outside now that I'm back in Belfast after a three-day expedition. The Blueprint team have been to Donegal, Leitrim and London/Derry this week. While Tony Blair was leaving office on Wednesday, we were in boats on Lough Melvin trying to find traces of Arctic Char 150 feet below us. Then we headed for Bear Cave in county Leitrim to see the place where the remains of the last bears in Ireland were found a few years ago. The National Museum of Ireland reuinted a nearly-complete bear skeleton with its burial site and we all helped piece the bones together -- it was like a Blueprint team jigsaw puzzle.