The Lagan Canal, Lisburn – my iPhone photo for today

For my picture today, on a cold and damp Monday, I have chosen my bright stripey brush and dustpan. I love it’s bright cheery colours, but I have to confess it is not the best at sweeping the floor and collecting the dust! However, it is so cheery and fun that I am reluctant to…

Top 10 Places (off the beaten tourist track) to visit in Northern Ireland Northern Ireland has many great places to visit – but often some of the most beautiful places are overlooked by the majority of visitors …..and here are a few….. with a few of my photos Ballintoy Harbour A lovely wee harbour, beach,…

At the end of our first full day in Paris we headed to the Champs-Elysees for some shopping / window shopping before going to view the Paris sunset from the Arc de Triomphe. Apologies for the overload of photos – all taken on my Fuji X100s Warning – it is quite a climb up a…

This week on I Heart Faces the photo needs to be of a portrait on a beach. As I have spent the last 4 weeks within a mile or two of numerous beaches here in Northern Ireland, the main problem was choosing just ONE! I have gone for this one – my eldest daughter, jumping…

How do you feel about September? ….. for me it is more like the start of the new year than the 1st of January, so this quote by Gretchen Rubin seems particularily apt. September is the other January Gretchen Rubin For me September is ……. start or back to school / university church organisations begin…

I was given the opportunity by Tesco NI to receive some local food and drink to create a picnic. Here is the delicious spread I received including Skea eggs, Dromona cheddar, Ballyrashane butter scallions (maybe in your houses they are spring onions but here they are scallions) and lettuce a selection of prepared salads, pate…