It's that time of the year …… for Christmas peppermint bark

Unlike the christmals carol, we in fact saw over 20 tall ships, and not on Christmas Day but in August in Belfast harbour, where amongst other things, they built the Titanic! Yesterday was the day we chose to visit the Tall Ships Maritime Festival in Belfast, along with 100,000 other visitors. One of the many…

Sharing my daily iPhone photos on my blog

For the last few weeks I have taken my camera with me to some of the local parks and captured some images – here are a selection…..     Do you have a favourite photo? So what signs of autumn are there in your world?

There was a beautiful sunrise this morning. This was taken about 8.15 am here in N Ireland. Snow is forecast for tomorrow, and in South East of England they are experiencing lots of snow today. My dh is away in South West England today, and I am praying he gets home before the snow reaches…

For a long time I have been wanting to paint some of the many pieces of shiny pine we have in our holiday cottage. As we have refurnished rooms at home, the obsolete pine furniture (we were married in the early 90’s – LOTS of pine!) has gradually moved north up to the cottage. Of…

My latest iPhone photo shared on Instagram