Sunny Sunday afternoon in our back garden
Finally sufficiently warm in the back garden this afternoon, and we managed our second BBQ of the year too!

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Finally sufficiently warm in the back garden this afternoon, and we managed our second BBQ of the year too!

We’re home from our half-term break – 2 nights in Manor Country House, Fermanagh and 2 nights up at our cottage on the north coast. As requested, especially for Andrea, I’m sharing some more of the inside of the Manor House. There’s going to be lots of photos and just a few words. The entrance…
So the downstairs cloakroom makeover is complete! Great to have all work done – no more workmen noise and dust. Was never quite sure what the house would be like when I came home, but now the house is our own again. Here is was before So nothing too dramatic – just replaced the sink…
Regular readers of my blog know how much I love taking photos, so when contacted by Hello Canvas (the largest photo on canvas website in Ireland) and given the opportunity to have one of my photos turned into a canvas, I didn’t hesitate. Here is the image I chose, in all it’s glory! Not perhaps…
I managed to catch my live-wire son in a rare moment of calmness and contemplation on the morning of his first day of Primary School. This week the I Heart Faces theme is “Back to School” , and although (as usual) I have lots of photos of all 3 kids, this is the one I…
Right now I am….. Seeing – my laptop (!) and I can still see some of the garden in the dusk outside – still some light in the sky despite is being 10.20 pm, I love the light mornings and late light evenings. Hearing – the TV on low (the news – I always like…
A week later than usual, we are back up to the cottage on the north coast of Northern Ireland. As our kids grow up, each summer is changing. This year one daughter is about to be a leader at Portballintrae CSSM, one daughter currently in Spain with Exodus, and our son as well as attending…