Pickie Pool, Bangor

This week on Shannon’s blog there is a great Works for Me Wednesday, which is all about great toy recommendations. I don’t know about you, but I LOVE all types of wooden toys, but actually they are not in my “most popular with the kids in our house” category. Here are a few that have…

100 posts – that sneaked up on me. I had planned to do something special for my 100th post, but I guess blogging on Christmas Eve will have to do! Posting early as I have lots to do today, including making my stuffing, clearing the dinning room so I can find the dinning room table…

I am back with another review of 2015 – this time I am collecting all the various ways I decorated our home this year – often just a few wee seasonal touches, sometimes makeovers involving chalk paint and more …. read on …. Vintage sewing machine (it still works!) and twinkly lights Decorating with candles…

Today was the funeral and thanksgiving for my mum’s eldest brother, John Colville.  It was lovely to hear the memories of him and tributes paid movingly by brothers, sons, friends and colleagues. My memory of Uncle Johnny was of him playing the piano, impressively and effortlessly, without any music, on a Christmas evening, at the…

Sharing my daily iPhone photos on my blog

Sharing my daily iPhone photos on my blog