Berries and blossoms

I was delighted to have the opportunity to choose some summer fashion items from the fashion online retailer JD Williams for review on my blog. After much deliberation (there was so much to choose from) these are the items I chose. From Womens Tops I selected this Joanna Hope Print Kaftan   I loved the…

This will be a short and somewhat bittersweet post tonight. Photos taken with my NEW Canon 500D – an early Christmas present. I NEVER remember snow like this In other news, unfortuantely my daughter, who will be 13 tomorrow, has had to postpone her birthday party due to the continued snow and atrocious road conditions. …

In my search for some appropriate Irish-themed prizes for the St Patricks Blogging Carnival (I did mention that before – just a few times!) I came across this piece of natural (un-bleached) linen. It was quite a large piece, and at first I thought it might be a table centre piece. I love linen in…

A selection of my Janmary Designs crocheted necklaces delivered to Ballynahinch and Castlewellan this morning. Which is your favourite?

There is a tradition of panto (pantomime) which I am realising is almost unique to UK and Ireland – so thought I would enlighten (!) the rest of my readers from around the world what it’s all about! Why? Because our church is putting on a show – a panto, next week, in our local…

I know it was only last week, but Christmas Day seems a long time ago now! I have not yet shared anything of Christmas Day itself. The kids got up at the civilised hour of 7am, not too bad in our opinion. Everyone was delighted with their gifts, especially Sam, as he had been concerned…