Peonies and petals

It is hard to believe that this time last year I was being moved to a ward following my surgery to remove one of my parathyroid glands. You can read my pre-surgery story My surgery, and initial recovery So, how do I feel one year on? SO much better. I still have some bone pain…

Sharing my daily iPhone photos on my blog

The children all had saved money (with a bit of encouragement from us) to take to Disneyland Paris. Prices seemed very high, as the sterling is now so weak against the Euro, but they each came home happy with their purchases. In the midst of unpacking and mountains of laundry (which I decided NOT to…

As this month (and year) comes to an end, my ambitions to blog daily are waning, but I am perservering! This morning, with below freezing temperatures, I headed out to the sales at The Outlet, Banbridge, with my daughters and their Christmas money and vouchers just waiting to be spent. We all had sucesses with…

My latest iPhone photo shared on Instagram

It is a bit chaotic around here right now – we are a bit upside down, as we are starting to get some work done in the house new understair storage cupboard being built new hall / stairs / landing / dinning room carpet painting hall / stairs / landing new storage in the dinning…