On the Grand Canal, Venice

My latest iPhone photo shared on Instagram

Sharing my daily iPhone photos on my blog

Sharing my daily iPhone photos on my blog

Ta da! …… after 14 years of living with a green carpet we detested, we finally have replaced it, and all the planned work of the last few weeks of work is finished. This is it just after the carpet was laid – so still a bit bare and this is how it looked just…

Although it was lovely getting the kids and the house back to “normal” routine after the Christmas holidays, we only had a couple of days to get used to it. Northern Ireland has been experiencing it’s worst winter in years, and snow which normally never lasts on the ground for more than an hour or…

Ten years ago today, I gave birth to my first child, Sarah, by caesarean section. She was 4 weeks early, and I was suffering from pre-eclampsia, but all was well, and we both got home on Christmas Eve. This photo was taken shortly after her birth, she lay beside me, eyes wide open but very…