9 December – a visit to Santa in Lisburn
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9 December – a visit to Santa in Lisburn

Although we don’t over emphasise Santa in our house, he is still part of our Christmas traditions. However he doesn’t get the credit for the biggest gifts on Christmas Day – we give the main present ourselves! When the kids were smaller there was usually a visit from Santa to the church toddler group (usually…

That was the week (and weekend) that was!
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That was the week (and weekend) that was!

Haven’t been blogging for about 10 days, so getting caught up. It has now been a week since we had THE MOST GLORIOUS WEEK of warm sunny weather – it will probably be remembered for many years to come as “THAT week in June of 2013”! It illustrates how poor our weather usually is that…

What I learned this week
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What I learned this week

I’ll get straight down to my lessons learned ….we have had probably our coldest but driest beginning of April ever – sun shone every day (which doesn’t usually happen!), no April showers. LOTS of blue skies! and stunning sunsets.  ….wee spring lambs are very cute ….when a new French restaurant (The French Rooms) opens in…