Carrick-a-rede rope bridge

Sharing my daily iPhone photos on my blog

Having had great success with Annie Sloan chalk paint on a shiny pine bookcase, so now it was time to target our hall table. Since last year and our hall makeover – changing our internal doors, adding some built-in storage and putting in a new bookcase, we really liked our hall, but had yet to…

We usually arrange our home exchanges through www.homeexchange.com So far in the last few years we have been to Dublin, Boston & Cape Cod, Galway, France and Donegal. This summer however, we have arranged a swap with an old school friend of mine, who now lives in an historic old mill in the Cotswolds. It…

As this month (and year) comes to an end, my ambitions to blog daily are waning, but I am perservering! This morning, with below freezing temperatures, I headed out to the sales at The Outlet, Banbridge, with my daughters and their Christmas money and vouchers just waiting to be spent. We all had sucesses with…

I have had fun remembering some of the places I have travelled – here are a selection As kids we spent holidays in Portrush (in N Ireland), and Achill Island (west coast of Ireland) and then to “the Continent” with my family – we started in a rented tent in France, then we progressed to…

No, not the classic Audrey Hepburn film from the 1950’s, but my husband and I will be in Rome at the end of May to celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary! Could we actually be THAT old? I don’t feel it, but the facts don’t lie On 12 June 1992 I said I do (that rhymes!)…