Rose and lace

I love to decorate simple with the occasional vintage item and twinkly white lights. Ever since learning to type with 2 fingers on my uncle’s portable typewriter I have always loved typewriters. Can’t say typing was my favourite role in my early days of working in a bank, but now with laptops, phones and tablets,…

Quick post tonight, while I am watching the first episode of The Apprentice – here are this week’s lessons I love The Apprentice – and this year’s candidates look as eccentric as ever. Are you watching? Blue skies and warm sunshine – it has been so long, that I took my iphone photo for today…

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…

This week has turned out much more sociable that we envisaged it would be. Due to the wonders of Facebook,we met up with an old school friend and her family who were back in Northern Ireland on holidays.  Her sons and my son got on reallly well at the park while we chatted, drank coffee…

I can’t really call myself a blogger these days as I blog so intermittently! However, the christmas decorations are up, and my blog is calling me back. Faithful bloggy friends may remember, in the distant past, that I usually blog DAILY in December! Considering I only managed two posts in November, I might not that…

We have an english friend staying is a charity worker in northern Iraq. (She has been there for more than 10 years). This morning I took her into Belfast for a bit of sightseeing, shopping and lunch. We ended up in my favourite shop Avoca and had a delicious lunch in the Avoca Cafe. It…