Boat building by the Lagan – great concentration required!

Welcome to another update from our house swap adventures in Donegal, the beautiful north west corner of Ireland. Here are a few photos taken on our explorations around the area. We have dodged the April spring showers (including hailstones) and made the most of the dry spells when the sun shone. However, we didn’t manage…

Sharing my daily iPhone photos on my blog

So here is the layout. It is of my middle daughter Jane in Lady Dixon Park, Belfast 2 years ago. I remember it was a lovely sunny Sunday afternoon (just as today), and there was a brass band playing in the park. The girls played with their skipping ropes while we sat on a blanket…

All these photos were taken on my iphone, after the St Patrick’s Day parade, and were just A FEW of the St Patrick-themed items available for purchase…… This bag caught my eye:  And I thought these Guinness refillable insulated coffee mugs quite clever Obviously this is where all the leprechauns buy their clothes Anyone for…

Today was another “at home” day with the kids. I put a few more finishing touches to the dining table, which I forgot to share with you yesterday, despite including it in the title. My middle daughter and I tied some Christmas baubles and some digi-scrapped name tags to each napkin with some ribbon.  …

Regular bloggy friends, tell me ……… do you, like me, look forward to these lessons learned? If I did not have this regular prompt to keep my blogging on track I may have disappeared over the edge into the bloggy abyss to join the other abandoned blogs out there. So thanks Jo-Lynne, without you I…