New York skyline magnets from Fish Eddys

The longest day of 2020 was the perfect opportunity to create a summer flat lay. I used just flowers from our garden, along with some scrabble letters. If you aren’t familiar with the tern “flat lay” it is defined as an image or a style of photograph in which a number of things are arranged on a surface and then photographed from above If you follow me on Instagram…

Quite a bit been happening since I last blogged. One lovely morning last week, we took the kids to the beach for a “photo shoot” (!!) for our planned christmas card. The kids tolerated me for so long, but then began to revolt! I promised it would not be much longer, but if I didn’t…

I love flowers, and how lovely would it be to win a beautiful bouquet. The lovely people at Serenata Flowers would like to send one of my blog readers a bouquet worth £30. (All the flowers in this post are £30 or less at the Serenata website) So ….. how to enter?Several ways – all…

You may or may not notice but I have not blogged since last Tuesday. It was not a planned absence from blogland, but sometimes it just happens. Did I miss much? So here are a few of the things I have been up to, and some lessons learned along the way: I attended a Pampered…

My son and I had a wee adventure this morning on the north coast of Northern Ireland. Armed only with the Geocache app on my iPhone and a very enthusiastic 10 year old, we headed out for a spot of Geocaching. If you aren’t familiar with it, Geocaching is a sort of treasure hunt challenge….

One of the many things I love about house swapping holidays / vacations, particularily in a non-touristy area is seeing life in other countries as it really is – not in a picture perfect manicured theme-park version of a country. We are staying on the edge of a lovely medieval french hill-top town, but it…