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Sunday Morning on the Strand
One of our favourite family activities when we are up at the cottage is to go to Portstewart Strand. It is a beautiful long sandy beach, owned by the National Trust, with the stunning backdrop of Mussenden Temple, and the Donegal hills in the Republic of Ireland in the distance. It is one of the…

Celebrating in 5 star luxury and other lessons
To celebrate my husband’s birthday we had a night away at Culloden Hotel, Cultra without the kids. My husband has caught up my age ….. well for 3 months of the year anyway…. when he is as old as I am! Lessons learned this week: 1. Upgrades! When booking hotel I happened to mention that…

Water drops and a colourful walk
Today I spotted lots of water drops on the kids playframe in the back garden and thought they might make an interesting photo for Project 365. The weather brightened up so I walked to pick up my son from Nursery School. He was not too impressed at the prospect of the walk home, so we…

Lessons Learned – results, chefs, parties and talent!
This week’s lessons learned Nothing says summer quite like eating ice-cream in the back garden with the kids after school. I enjoyed having house guests again – it has been a while. Dave and Debbie and Joseph were passing through on the way from England to use our cottage on the North coast. They were…

Bonjour from Disneyland Paris
It has been a long day, so just planning to post a quick photo for now. We were delighted with our eldest daughter’s Transfer Test result for her Eleven Plus – she got an A grade. We were phoned with the result while we were in the departure lounge at the airport. Thanks to everyone…