And she is ready to leave for university….love her lots x

My latest iPhone photo shared on Instagram

One of our favourite family activities when we are up at the cottage is to go to Portstewart Strand. It is a beautiful long sandy beach, owned by the National Trust, with the stunning backdrop of Mussenden Temple, and the Donegal hills in the Republic of Ireland in the distance. It is one of the…

Couldn’t quite decide on which title to use for this post – so went with all 3!  It has been unseasonably warm here this week, so when the opportunity to take my camera to the park I thought I would share some of the the autumn colours here on the trees. This is my favourite…

I’m joining in with Five Minute Friday (5 minutes of writing on a given topic …. writing from the heart without editing, then joining in with other bloggers by sharing it over at Lisa jo’s The Gypsy Mama blog) This week the topic is QUIET GO I love waking early (usually) and as I lie…

GIVEAWAY AT END OF POST …read on…… As promised, a post about what we traditionally eat here in our family in N Ireland on Christmas Day. All photos from previous years – as although all the food is packed into the fridge, nothing has been cooked yet! My daughters now help to set the table…

At the end of our first full day in Paris we headed to the Champs-Elysees for some shopping / window shopping before going to view the Paris sunset from the Arc de Triomphe. Apologies for the overload of photos – all taken on my Fuji X100s Warning – it is quite a climb up a…