I'm delighted that Sligo has made it into the final of the Foodie Towns competition and I really love to see Sligo win but your help is needed, we need your votes and you can do so here. If you are wondering why Sligo should win the Foodie Towns competition here are my reasons. We... Continue Reading →
Facebook Competitions – a word of warning
Some of you may know I entered a photo competition in the hope of winning a new camera...I'm sorry I'm even boring myself with my wish for a decent camera! This one seemed like an easy enough competition. The theme was St. Patrick's Day and you had to get your friends to comment under your... Continue Reading →
Dinner Fit For A Poet – A Competition for Food Lovers
When WB Yeats won his Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923, he sat down to dinner in The Grand Hotel, Stockholm, Sweden with distinguished guests and members of the Nobel Academy. What they ate is now a mystery, as the menu for that year is missing from the Nobel Prize archive. Yeats Day, together with... Continue Reading →
My morning at TV3
It was a very exciting but hectic week. I got a phone call on Monday to say my photo was a finalist in the Ireland AM monthly photo competition - the theme was Love. I had to be in Dublin for 9am so I got up at 4am as I was driving and I wanted... Continue Reading →
Cars and competitions
Well today was one of those days! I went out to Gilbert the car this morning and it was as dead as a doornail. Andy was asleep so I decided to grab the power pack we had for jump starting the car and I started it all by myself!! So there I was doing a... Continue Reading →
Milan in May
As it's coming to the end of the year I thought I really should catch up on the blogs I should have written! This is the oldest one about our trip to Milan. I was lucky enough to win flights from Ireland West Trad. we could pick any destination from Ireland West Knock airport (except... Continue Reading →