Time with the family and time on the beach …. a few of my favourite things

Sarah requested a beach walk on her birthday, so Runkerry was the perfect spot. No better way to celebrate 23 years of Sarah!




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Sarah requested a beach walk on her birthday, so Runkerry was the perfect spot. No better way to celebrate 23 years of Sarah!




Just settling down to watch the Christmas Day episode of Downton Abbey, and to update my blog on our Christmas Day. The time agreed upon for getting up was 7.30 am, and one excited 9 year old managed to get to sleep last night and contain his excitement until about 7.25 am! Everyone headed down…
In case you are wondering why I seem to be blogging about random parts of my life – I am taking part in a challenge to blog on specified topics each day for the whole month of May. Over 20 bloggers are taking part, and you can join in at any stage. So…..back to today’s…
This month my eldest daughter turned 18 (eeek!) and I thought I would share here with my bloggy readers a few of the creative ideas/tips I had for the decor etc. Signature Canvas Guest Book I purchased a plain wooden 18 from ebay, and thanks to several coats of silver paint and then and a layer…
One of my favourite things to look at over Christmas is Christmas trees, so of course I could resist visiting the Christmas Tree Festival in Lisburn Cathedral. I have heard of Christmas Tree festivals before, but this was the first one I had the opportunity to visit. The sign outside informed us that the “Journey…
Join us for the big beach clean-up here in Northern Ireland on Friday 11 May 2012? image from www.mcsuk.org There are two venues here : Hazelbank (near Belfast) and Portstewart Strand (see my photo below) There are several reasons to get involved : clean up the beach for a couple of hours provide Marine Conservation…
Welcome to my world of hyperparathyroidism! Normal blogging service will resume shortly, but decided that this would be an appropriate time to try to share what’s been going on around here recently. The stones, bones, moans and groans will be explained, if you care to read on! About this time last year I started having…