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Podcasts and girls’ road trip

On Saturday Sibéal and I headed to Dublin for a flying visit. The purpose of our trip was to meet baby Aoife, who’s less than a fortnight old and sooooo cute. Congrats again to Teresa and Craig and big bro Kieran. Though the car journey from Bandon to Dublin is now hugely improved and much [...]

Irish Blog Awards 2009

I love this time of year. Its when I get to discover and have a gawk at a huge selection of new to me Irish blogs. Get thee over to the list of nominated blogs on the Irish blog awards site for a gander. Am especially enjoying perusing the best food/drink blog, great variety. Am [...]

This week I have been mostly eating….

Brrr, its been cold so I’ve resurrected this recipe and am loving it this week. I appreciate recipes that are quick and easy to carry out and this one definitely fits the bill. Red Lentil Soup Ingredients: 1 onion 1 carrot 1 celery stick Couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil 1 clove of garlic 1 [...]

Tea set painting fun

Paint a tea set from Galt Sibéal recently turned 5 years old and one of the presents she received was a “Paint a Tea Set” from Galt. Its very cute, a miniature tea set containing white ceramic tea pot, jug, sugar bowl and 4 cups with saucers. Also included is a paintbrush and a range [...]

If you love chocolate….

Spicendipity Chocolate Brownie Mix Hurrah,  the Spicendipity site is open for business. It looks gorgeous and theres a great selection of spice mixes, sauces, baking mixes and gift hampers. In addition, a very helpful recipe section which gives plenty of serving/cooking suggestions and examples and is therefore excellent for people like me who are culinary [...]

Schoolbook shopping made easy

www.schoolbooksonline.ie My 3 primary school going kids got their book lists for next September a week or so ago and having learnt my lesson from previous years of leaving their purchase till August, I decided to get it all done and dusted now. Our local bookshop will eventually get all the books in, but it [...]

Green with envy

Today my sister has been torturing me by sending me the following photos from her phone: Yep, she’s in Wimbledon and I sooo wanna to be there too. Its been years since I’ve played tennis but most of my teenage years were spent doing so. I loved it. The McEnroe vs Borg years of Wimbledon [...]

Indiana Jones and Lego – a match made in heaven?

Indiana Jones and the Lost Tomb Lego 7621 One of the presents that Oscar received for his recent 9th birthday was the Indiana Jones and the Lost Tomb LEGO set. Thanks to Auntie Emer, this was perfect as it combined his love of LEGO and the hype of the moment that is Indiana Jones. I [...]

Fun in the sun

Just been messing about this morning with online photo editor PIXENATE. Its excellent. I used it to upload, crop and Warhol-esque this basic photo taken at the playground recently. It was really easy and straightforward to use and I love the end result. Coolo, am really looking forward to using the wordpress plugin to enhance [...]

Watch those pennies and the pounds will look after themselves

A favourite saying of my mother’s which I believe she got off her father, my grandad Joe. photo credit: ArchiM What brought it to mind was a new website: FrugalIreland, recently launched by Deborah with contributions already from Maz. With tips on how to save money and ways to spend it more wisely and make [...]

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