Spring has sprung in Wallace Park Lisburn

Welcome to my autumnal show and tell. While gathering leaves, and enjoying the glorious recent Autumn weather, I have also been collecting various other nature items with my kids. We have found conkers, beech nuts, acorns, berries, toadstools, leaves, twigs……. We brought home a selection (but not the toadstools) and arranged them in a bowl…

With the kids all off school, and as we are avoiding all possible retail experiences, we have done some baking. Yesterday we made brownies (yes, actual baking, including an oven and all that!) and they were delicious. Today normal service has resumed in that our baking today is a no-bake recipe. This is a classic…

While delivering some more Janmary Designs jewellery to the lovely Doris and Jeannie shop in Anne Street, I made the most of some time in Belfast, and visited a few of my favourite shops – which include Paperchase, Avoca and Cath Kidston. This new ric rac pattern is everywhere in the store – china, purses…

 How was your New Year’s Eve? We tend to stay in on New Years Eve with the kids, and as our daughters are teens and now stay up with us, I thought this quote by Bill Vaughan was appropriate “Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when…

At www.JohnLewis.com they are asking parents to share their Christmas “Rules for a Perfect Family Christmas” and plan to compile a huge list of them early in December. This post is my contribution. Being a bit contrary, I prefer to call them traditions…….  Rules are just asking to be disobeyed, but traditions sounds much more…….something?!!!…

Love tulips – a promise of Spring