That was the week (and weekend) that was!
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That was the week (and weekend) that was!

Haven’t been blogging for about 10 days, so getting caught up. It has now been a week since we had THE MOST GLORIOUS WEEK of warm sunny weather – it will probably be remembered for many years to come as “THAT week in June of 2013”! It illustrates how poor our weather usually is that…

Peace Camp 2012 at Benone Strand, Northern Ireland
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Peace Camp 2012 at Benone Strand, Northern Ireland

Peace Camp is part of the London 2012 Festival, and is described as “A coastal installation celebrating love poetry and landscape“ It is happening from 19 – 22 July in 8 coastal venues in the UK. Here is N Ireland, although we are closer to the White Park Bay installation, I chose to go over…

Summers End at Downhill Strand, Northern Ireland
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Summers End at Downhill Strand, Northern Ireland

This afternoon we headed over to part of the North Coast of Northern Ireland which we don’t visit so often, the beach at Downhill, just beyond Castlerock. Downhill beach is a 7 mile stretch of golden sand from Magillan Point to Mussenden and apparently is one of the longest beaches in Europe. It was a…

Birthday Aftermath!

Birthday Aftermath!

I had a lovely birthday since my last post, so let me share how it went. My kids arrived into our room at 7am with armfuls of pink “Happy Birthday Mum” balloons, card and presents – including a new lens for my Canon, a necklace and cards. Breakfast in bed was served – tea and…