In case you are wondering about the title it's just that yesterday contained a lot of L words: Lucy, Leitrim, Lena's, Laurence and Longford and that would have made too long of a blog title! We've had a lovely week with Lucy back home for the mid-term break. It's been great having her around the... Continue Reading →
Music Night and Day at Carrick Water Music Festival!
Carrick Water Music Festival will take place in Carrick on Shannon from 13th to 17th July. Boasting 6 nights of live music with the best of Irish acts such as Lisa Hannigan, Zoë Conway & John McIntyre, Donal Dineen, Pádraig McGovern, Leonard Barry & John Tuohy, Mick Hanly & Donal Lunny and The Drawing Room... Continue Reading →
Sunday on the Shannon
Just a very quick blog for today. It's a day off the A to Z challenge. Today we headed to Carrick-on-Shannon to go to the car boot sale and have a look around. It stayed mostly dry while we were there which was nice. We didn't get much, there are too many traders at the... Continue Reading →
Bowling
We went to Carrick-on-Shannon today for the first car boot sale after Christmas. We were hoping it would be a really good one...but it was rubbish. The weather probably didn't help, it was misty and raining a bit and it was blooming cold. So we decided to go bowling, we haven't been in years. I... Continue Reading →
Spotted on my travels
Over the last week or so I've noticed some daft things. The first thing was the sign above in Lidl, Sligo. What a bargain! You save nothing! The next thing was these 'Self Eat' Easter sweets in Tesco, Carrick-on-Shannon. Self eat? Well who else is going to eat them? The thing I found the strangest... Continue Reading →
The Hunger Games
Yesterday we went to see The Hunger Games 🙂 We've all read the books and couldn't wait to see the film. It really was excellent, so great to see the book bought to life on the big screen. It wasn't as gruesome in the film as I thought it would be but I guess that's... Continue Reading →
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