Some more iPhone photos from Mount Stewart today

There was a beautiful sunset over the headland near our cottage the other evening, around 10pm. Here are a just a FEW of the many I took! These are straight from the camera, no editing apart from adding my watermark. The second photo was taken just from the end of our laneway, on my way…

It’s been quite a different Christmas for us this year, with Mum now in a Nursing Home, but here is my Christmas 2014 recap. Mum is very content, and well looked after, but it’s not quite the same. To make the best of it, my husband suggested we do it quite differently for Christmas 2014….

Sharing my daily iPhone photos on my blog

Today’s challenge (the month of daily blogging is nearing an end!) was to share an old photo, but I thought this would be an appropriate post to share a pencil sketch an artist relative (my Dad’s cousin, Elizabeth McEwen) did of me when I was about 7. Elizabeth is more known for her botanical paintings…

This Christmas I am pleased to have the opportunity to share the news of a Cookson Christmas on the Drama channel. As an avid reader growing up, I loved to curl up with a book on a Sunday afternoon (with my back to the radiator!). I was that child happiest with her nose in a…