A small clip of the Pond Park P6/P7 choir at their carol service (bbc radio ulster primary choir of the year)

We have now been back almost a month, and if I don’t blog soon about the rest of our trip I will have forgotten entirely! I think I’d got up to the Saturday, half way through our trip, and we had spend the afternoon/evening in Animal Kingdom, so I will take it from there. Sunday…

I have been experimenting with Macro (close up) photography and here are my pics for today. Which do you prefer? If you are a digital scrapper (and if not, why not?!) then check out The Meadow blog today over at Weeds and Wildflower Designs. There is a scraplift challenge with a great free template and…

It isn’t often my daughters’ taste in music collides with mine, but we are all fans of Taylor Swift. So when I heard last year she was coming to Belfast in March 2011, I knew it would be a perfect Christmas surprise. Last night the concert was on in the Odyssey complex in Belfast. Our…

On holidays a highlight for me is always a visit to a local market.  This morning we visited the market in Soissons.  The array of fresh fruit and vegetables, and they way they are displayed is wonderful.     We purchased some fruit (strawberries, raspberries, nectarines and melon) and some vegetables (broccoli, leeks and yellow courgettes) –…

Yesterday afternoon, we tackled and completed our Christmas card list. It is always something I approach with mixed emotions – going through the list, it brings friends and family to mind who we may not have seen for a while, those who have had a wonderful year (weddings, births, significant birthdays) and those for whom…

It’s been quite a different Christmas for us this year, with Mum now in a Nursing Home, but here is my Christmas 2014 recap. Mum is very content, and well looked after, but it’s not quite the same. To make the best of it, my husband suggested we do it quite differently for Christmas 2014….