It is that time of year when hassled parents and reluctant kids hit the shops to purchase the new school uniform for their kids. It is both stressful and expensive, and with 3 kids, the part I dread most is the school shoes. Fortunately the only requirement is that they are black and fairly sensible!…

Faithful blog readers and friends will know I had been having  a few  many issues with my blogger blog. I created my blog on Blogger way back in 2007, when I hardly knew what a blog was. This blog originally started out with the catchy blog address of www.welcometomyworldjanmary.blogspot.com! You can read that first post HERE….

It is been ages since I blogged, and in what is now becoming a tradition, here’s what I have been up to (not excuses, just reasons……well, sort of excuses) : ladies night at church – we had chinese takeaway, lovely desserts, books, cupcakes and jewellery (mine) on sale, followed by an unexpected but hilarious “wee”…

It’s almost Christmas, so today I will share our planned Christmas Dinner menu … and I expect our main course is fairly typical of what will be served in homes throughout Northern Ireland on Christmas Day. The main event of course is the turkey and ham – we collected ours from the lovely Clare at Blackberry…