Hurray it’s May! Second vaccine received todaynon-essential shops are open againcafes and restaurants can serve outside and…. we can head up to the north coast! Thankful! What are you thankful for?

Tonight I will start my post with my latest LO, using Chere Kaye’s Joy of the Season. Full credits can be found at DST and if you want to read the journaling you can find it there too. For today’s photo, after numerous attempts, I finally took this picture – enjoy!

This afternoon our kids spent the afternoon at our church learning about the Funky Fish Youth Cafe project in Cork. They baked buns, decorated fish and played all sorts of games including a variation of “Duck, duck, goose!” called “Fish, fish, shark!”. Later in the afternoon the parents and other members of our church were…

My daughter and her friends, as part of their Young Enterprise business at Wallace High School in Lisburn have created a lovely Northern Ireland calendar featuring seasonal scenes around Lisburn and beyond, for their company Staple Stationery There are scenes from Wallace Park, Castle Gardens, Lisburn Cathedral and more. Many of the photos taken by…

With only 2 weeks left before school uniforms and new school shoes need to be ready, we are enjoying spending time at the cottage. Nothing very exciting, just relaxed normal. Weather has not been wonderful, but when it is dry we tend to end up on a coastal path or on the beach. On Sunday…

My latest iPhone photo shared on Instagram

We have had pine dining room furniture since we moved to this house in 1998. The time has come for a change ….. with Annie Sloan chalk paint (of course!) I will be sharing our progress on this blog – looking forward to seeing the finished result.