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Wednesday, 6 August 2014
Tuesday, 5 August 2014
I bought a lovely picture of Hemingway house in the airport on the way home from Key West. It is a print of a painting by a local artist. And it was only about $7....seriously cheap imo. So today I got around to getting a frame for the picture - in Ikea!The frame cost €4.50 A little bit of paradise at home in Dublin. I love it.Now I just need to pick a nice place to hang ...
Monday, 28 July 2014
Enid and I went to the closing night of Dirty Dancing last week and it was a really great night. First we went to Tribeca in Ranelagh. We love this place. A glass of Malbec and a hamburger - I have never ordered anything different here!!!!! Even though everything else smells so nice and looks so good I just can't resist the hamburgers. They are the best hamburgers I have ever eaten - and that includes America.Dirty DancingOverall...
Sunday, 20 July 2014
David and I went for a nice breakfast in the The Twelfth Lock this morning. It is a cute little building situated on the banks of the Royal Canal (at the twelfth lock!!) and it was particularly picturesque in today's summer sun.David had the mini breakfast - one of everything - sausage, rasher, tomato, black and white pudding, and tea and toast. I got two poached eggs and rashers plus a coffee and toast.It was all very nice...
Tuesday, 15 July 2014
Sunday, 13 July 2014
I was at my friends Caitriona and Stephen's wedding yesteday. It was a lovely relaxed day and evening - a very cool wedding held in the beautiful settings of Horetown House..Unfortunately my phone (i.e. my camera is still out of action) so I don't have photos of all the nice touches at this wedding that I would like to show you :-(So this is me all dressed up for the wedding. You can't really see it in this pic but my hair was styled...
Wednesday, 9 July 2014
I did something really really stupid and left my iPad on the train on Monday morning.How the hell did I do that?!!!! Well let me explain.In Dublin we have this free newspaper (the Metro) which I was reading on the train. I had my iPad on the table also and when I finished the newspaper I put it on top of the iPad. I then dozed off for a few minutes...I sometimes do this on the train :-) And while I was starting to doze off, I actually...
Wednesday, 2 July 2014
Well hello there!I have not blogged for a while for a combination of reasons.Firstly I was on holidays in Key West, Florida so I always I would do less blogging than usual over the last two weeks. However I could not connect my laptop to the wifi so unfortunately there was literally no blogging whatsoever.Secondly, the night before I was flying out my phone, which I use for taking photos and immediate uploading died a death*. So I took a lot of photographs with dad's camera, and I now have them loaded on the laptop, but now I need to arrange...
Sunday, 8 June 2014
Enid (of renovating lpa) and I arranged to meet our friend Alice for brunch in The Gibson Hotel this morning.We had a good old catch up :-)And the food wasn't half bad either!First up a little amuse bouche Strawberry yoghurt smoothie and little fruit and custard pastry.These were a really cute teeny tiny size. I put my ring on the plate to show the scale - the first photo I took made them look huge.Starter We ordered...
Saturday, 7 June 2014
We had a nice night out on "the southside" last night. Myself, Enid, David and Ciaran ate out in Roly's Bistro in Ballsbridge - the cafe part.I have eaten in Roly's a few times, a long time ago...must be about 8 years ago...and was interested to see that they have added a cafe and bakery to their stable. We chose the cafe as our venue as we were looking for somewhere a little more casual then the (beautiful) restaurant. The...
Sunday, 1 June 2014
This weekend is a long weekend in Ireland which means no work on Monday, hooray! Friends of ours hosted a festival in their holiday home beside the beach in County Wexford. All the essentials, car packed up and ready to go.The theme of the festival was "Tedfest" which is a celebration of the tv comedy show Father Ted so we all dressed up as different characters from the program. Myself and Aileen were "lovely girls" and Sue was...
Monday, 26 May 2014
Have you heard the latest on KK and K? Apparently they are currently honeymooning in Ireland!Article in one of our national newspapers.Here in Ireland we pride ourselves on having a bit of fun and our sense of humour. We also like gently ribbing or "slagging" other people, and I did laugh when I saw a joke newspaper (a bit like The Onion) and the joke article they ran about Kim sightseeing in a famous cave: read it h...
Enid and I were at a great festival yesterday selling a few bits and pieces - teeshirts, wallhangings and bric brac or as we were calling it "tat" :-) We made sure we brought the essentials with us - big flask of boiling water and tea and coffee! I hung my wall-hangings from the gazebo and I think they looked pretty good. But sadly I made no sales... I think they may have been priced higher than people expected to pay at a music...
Wednesday, 21 May 2014
I haven't been sleeping great lately :-( so have been trying different things to help me. David has (rightly) said that I should do more exercise. So this evening I planned on getting off the train one station early and walking home. It's not a long walk but it is just so boring of a walk!When it came to the early station I sooooooo did not want to do it. Even though it was a lovely sunny evening I really had to force myself...
Saturday, 17 May 2014
Yesterday, I was at an event in the lovely Scholars hotel and restaurant in Drogheda. It's a lovely old building with fantastic wood pannelled wall covering - it was originally the Christian brothers's convent. We were situated in private room off the dining room, with two of the above long tables. Look how they folded the napkin! Like a little dinner/tuxedo jacket. So cute. I'd love to learn how to do this. My starter...
Friday, 16 May 2014
From the Green Ribbon website:See Change, the National Stigma Reduction Partnership and our 90 partner organisations are rolling out a month long national Green Ribbon Campaign to get people talking openly about mental health problems in May 2014.More than 300,000 green ribbons will be distributed nationwide free of charge to spark a national conversation about mental health in boardrooms, break-rooms, chat rooms, clubhouses, arts venues, college campuses and around kitchen tables throughout Ireland. Our aim is to make the month of May every year...
Monday, 12 May 2014
Anyone ever tried toothpowder? It is supposed to be great for getting coffee, cigarettes (although I do NOT smoke!) and wine stains off your teeth. Apparently it is so strong that you should only use it twice a week. I am going to try it this evening for the first time. Let's see how I get on.&nb...
Sunday, 11 May 2014
My laptop has been broken for a week or two so I have not been blogging.It is in for repair and it seems to be more serious then originally thought :-( So I am waiting to see when I will get it back...plus how much it will cost.I am in the country (Co. Limerick) in my mother in laws house and I am using her latop so I will try squeeze a few blogs out nice and quick.It was quite stormy all night, and then this morning I was woken by a cow mooing. Funny. You don't get that in Dubl...
Saturday, 10 May 2014
Friday was an exciting day because we collected the final component of our room décor - our new tv unit. We finally settled on getting a piece custom made from Table Lighting Chair in Dublin and it is divine!!!! But I am getting ahead of myself - let me go right back to the start of the story and how we ended up with the piece we ended up with. So! As you know I am a big Ikea fan. The vibe (mid...
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