Botanic Gardens, Belfast

It was a cold and frosty morning as I headed to the Titanic Quarter in Belfast. The Titanic Experience will open on 31 March 2012, just in time for the 100 anniversary of the Titanic tragedy. The whole area was ignored and neglected for many years, but in recent years has seen major redevelopement. So…

Sharing my daily iPhone photos on my blog

100 posts – that sneaked up on me. I had planned to do something special for my 100th post, but I guess blogging on Christmas Eve will have to do! Posting early as I have lots to do today, including making my stuffing, clearing the dinning room so I can find the dinning room table…

For 2013, as well as taking a daily photo on my iphone, I plan to have a weekly series on using your iphone – hence iphone Friday! I will share a few of my images from each week and also include a review of some of my favourite iphone photography apps, and maybe some other…

This week the challenge is to share a photo which doesn’t contain a face! With a daughter who is becoming more and more camera shy, this is not a problem for me, as I have lots of photos like this: This one was taken on the beach in Portballintrae, and those are new gloves! I’m…

Ta da! …… after 14 years of living with a green carpet we detested, we finally have replaced it, and all the planned work of the last few weeks of work is finished. This is it just after the carpet was laid – so still a bit bare and this is how it looked just…