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A week later than usual, we are back up to the cottage on the north coast of Northern Ireland. As our kids grow up, each summer is changing. This year one daughter is about to be a leader at Portballintrae CSSM, one daughter currently in Spain with Exodus, and our son as well as attending…

Happy New Year …. for the sake of Auld Lang Sang
We are settling in for the evening by the fire, planning to see in the New Year with our older two kids and a neighbour. We’ll watch a DVD then probably watch Big Ben in London strike midnight on TV. We don’t tend to go out on New Years Eve, and earlier today I was…

Home FROM the holidays! (and new kitchen reveal)
It seems like forever since we left home for the north coast of N Ireland for our Easter holidays. My son returned to Nursery School and my husband returned to his work. My daughters are moving into their new school buildings later this week, so for now their holidays continue. To celebrate we went to…

Halloween then and now in Northern Ireland
Many of my american friends struggle to believe that here in Ireland, before pumpkins were imported and widely available, we carved out turnips as lanterns for halloween! I thought I would share a few more of the differences between then and now Then Carving Hacking out the middle of a large turnip with a metal…

Tiny Talk Tuesday, and the tale of two sofas
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10 facts about me
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