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Just like a Winnie the Pooh story, yesterday was indeed a blustery day. Although just a few miles down the road or inland the wind was weaker, the strength of the gusts and squally showers at the front of the cottage would have taken your breath away. It was even hard to shut the front…

29 December – a wintry walk at White Rocks Strand
Another bright, chilly and blustery day – so we headed out this morning for a wintry walk at White Rocks strand, between Dunluce Castle and Portrush. The White Rocks strand becomes the Curran Strand or East Strand and it is possible to walk the whole way along to Portrush, but we didn’t venture that…

A review of 2017 ….. a different review
Since starting to blog almost 11 years ago, at the end of each December I usually write a post or two reviewing the past year. At first I would use the blog posts of that year as prompts to the significant events. When I began taking daily iPhone photos in 2013 for instagram they would…

Craft Storage – before and after
I have known for some time that my chaotic and messy craft corner’s days were numbered as Christmas approaches, and we will require the dining room for……dining in! (what a novel thought). Apparently this is unacceptable. With a trip to IKEA planned for last Friday, I got out their latestbrochure and came up with a…

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An eye opening visit
My Show and Tell this week is of a special painting of a special place in our family’s life. The scene is of Clifton, Bristol in south west of England and includes the Downs, the Suspension Bridge and the Balloon festival. We lived for a year in Bristol nearly 5 years ago. We had a…