Grand Canal from Rialto Bridge, Venice

This year we made the same teacher gifts as last year for my son’s teacher and classroom assistant. For each vase you need a straight drinking glass about 30 new pencils per vase (more than you think!) some blue tac a glue gun (I assume most glues would work, but I like to live dangerously!)…

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…

I seem to be staying on a pink theme – today some pink shoes. I was at a clothes swap party at a friend’s house a few weeks back, and got these virtually unworn Skechers. I love them, especially the little daisy attached to the laces! This morning at our church Toddler Group it was…

One of my favourite places to shop, browse and photograph is St Georges Market in Belfast. This morning there was an additional St Patrick’s feel to the market, and I snapped a few photos of products being sold in celebration. Not quite sure what our patron saint would have made of them, but it was…

 Can you guess what this is?  Read on!  I am starting my lessons learned this week with two I forgot to include last week! Exams and results are almost as stressful when being sat by your kids. My daughter may disagree! We were very proud of her results anyway irrespective of who found it more…