On Friday we went to Dublin. Lucy and her friend were going to see Florence and the Machine at the O2. Jono and I just went along for the craic. We stayed at The Gibson Hotel. It was too expensive to book it directly through the hotel's website so I booked it through Roomex.com. It's... Continue Reading →
A Day in Dundrum
On Saturday Lucy and I went to Dublin to have a look at Dundrum Town Centre. Anyone who knows me will know I'm not a shopper so I was a bit apprehensive about the whole shopping bit but I wanted to go to have a look around. I thought the shopping centre was brilliant. Really... Continue Reading →
Dublin in December
The kids had money for Christmas which was burning a hole in their pockets so against my better judgement I took them to Dublin to have a look at the sales. I think when it comes to shopping I have the bloke gene. I can't see the fascination in traipsing around the shops for hours,... Continue Reading →
Shopping in Dublin
I took the kids to Dublin last week to do some Christmas shopping. There's always a great atmosphere there and lots to see and do. We saw this lovely man who I think is the real Santa 🙂 We had to pick the day when there were a lot of protests on. So O'Connell Street... Continue Reading →
The weekend
Well it's been a bit of a week with one thing and another. The photo was taken from our drive on Thursday morning, I love to see the sunrise....we don't see that many of them though. On Tuesday Andy wound up in hospital. He only went to the doctors for a blood test, he's been... Continue Reading →
Rihanna in Dublin
Lucy won three tickets to see Rihanna in Dublin. So off we went 🙂 They were standing tickets and as Jono has problems standing for long periods of time we tried to see if there was any chance of getting seated tickets. We were waiting for a long time at the front desk in the... Continue Reading →