Well we are all together for Christmas as a family once again. I went over to Athlone on Thursday to collect Lucy from college, she'd just finished her last exam for the year. Bless her when I arrived she had a gorgeous buffet ready for me, it was so sweet of her. On the way... Continue Reading →
Happy 2017
Well as you can see we celebrated New Year's Eve with much merriment. You can just feel the party vibe going on here. This is the first year in quite a while that Lucy has joined us, she saw how much fun we've had previously! Laurence, her boyfriend, also came along to join the festivities.... Continue Reading →
Merry Christmas 2016
I hope you all had a very happy Christmas however you spent it. It's been a roller coaster of a year and it was lovely to have a relaxing day spent with my wonderful family. Although we are still living out of boxes and bags we managed to get the Christmas tree up. We couldn't... Continue Reading →
So here it is Merry Christmas
I hope you've all had a wonderful day however you've been spending it. We had a lovely quiet day, ate our body weight in food - the usual. We also posed for the annual family photo - which started off serious and ended up like the one below. I'm sure normal service will be resumed... Continue Reading →
A belated birthday blog
I'm finally catching up on old blog posts that I should have written but somehow never got around to it. Back in June it was Andy's 50th birthday and also our 25th wedding anniversary. It was so strange because without us knowing we'd both gone shopping in the same shop! We both went to Lollypotz... Continue Reading →
Magic at Strokestown Park
I made a return visit to Strokestown Park as part of my Wild Atlantic Wayfarer project. Although Roscommon isn't on the Wild Atlantic Way it's one of the neighbouring counties and is well worth a visit. I didn't go on the house tour this time as I've covered it on a previous blog post. So... Continue Reading →