Spring is in the air (and on my chalkboard)

Welcome to my Christmas Home Tour in Northern Ireland. Since discovering the wonderful world of blogging in 2007 this is my favourite post/link-up/carnival of the year. If this is your first visit here, welcome to my world! I love Christmas and Christmas decor and will share a wee bit of my home. First a bit…

Welcome to another update from our house swap adventures in Donegal, the beautiful north west corner of Ireland. Here are a few photos taken on our explorations around the area. We have dodged the April spring showers (including hailstones) and made the most of the dry spells when the sun shone. However, we didn’t manage…

This afternoon our kids spent the afternoon at our church learning about the Funky Fish Youth Cafe project in Cork. They baked buns, decorated fish and played all sorts of games including a variation of “Duck, duck, goose!” called “Fish, fish, shark!”. Later in the afternoon the parents and other members of our church were…

Last week I managed to escape the building work at home and attend the Invest NI Conference Design for Business. I arrived in plenty of time, and went for a short walk around outside and took a few photos to share with my bloggy friends. There were some twinkly white Christmas lights behind the huge…

Ok – maybe I went a bit overboard with the alliteration, but there will be a little bit of all of the above in this post. Now – for a non-apology. I am so tempted to start this post, as I start many of my posts, with an apology for not posting since…..I last posted!…

My latest iPhone photo shared on Instagram – White Rocks Strand (near Portrush on the north coast of Northern Ireland) the day after Boxing Day. I love this beach, whatever the time of day, season or weather! It looked particularly stunning this morning before church. Why not “pin” the image below! You might be interested…