Nestling bird family necklace by Janmary Designs

If you have visited my blog in the last month, you probably could not have escaped noticing I was hosting a bloggy carnival! If you weren’t here in the last month – why not??? Here are a few things I learnt during the process 1. It is hard work2. It is lots of fun3. Practice…

Welcome to my first ever hosting of a blogging carnival. I hope you will enjoy your visit here. Even if you have no obvious connection with Ireland, as the sign about the Guiness Museum in Dublin says Growing up here in Northern Ireland, I never really celebrated the day. We did not get the day…

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 As a child I hated having a birthday during the school summer holidays, as my friends always seemed to be away, and by the time we got back to school my birthday seemed a distant memory. There was one advantage though – you were never subjected to “the bumps”. Did you have the bumps as…

Sharing my daily iPhone photos on my blog

After having to be rescheduled from a sunny friday in May to a damp Tuesday in June, the organisers were not sure how many volunteers would turn up for the Marine Conservation Society Big Beach Clean in assoctiation with Marks & Spencers Forever Fish Campaign However they needn’t have worried – the turn out was…