GIY or Grow it Yourself……hopefully!
Check out our first attempts at growing our own vegetables!! I have a feeling GIY (Grow it Yourself) will become a significant past time in this house…….anything as long as I don’t have to have anything to do with DIY or DIE as I like to lovingly call it!!! We’re starting all our bits and [...]
The Loves of my Life
If you don’t know much about me, maybe this will help you to know me a bit better The Person: Stephen The Memory: The Tall Ships Race in Dunmore East, Co. Waterford in 2006 The Moment of the Day: The evening when Stephen gets home from work The Song: When You Were Young, The Killers [...]
Letter to my 18 year Old Self
Dear Therese, You’re 18 right? And it’s just about to become the new millennium – the year 2000 – just imagine!! This letter is from you, in 10 years time, when you’re 28 and and the decade is almost over. On December 31st 2009, I’m writing this letter to you to give you some much [...]
Thanksgiving & A Christmas Fair
Today is Thanksgiving, Yippee I hear the American’s cry! Happy thanksgiving to one and all….A time for family, friends and best of all….food. But this is traditionally the day to give thanks for all the blessings in our lives and for how fortunate we are. What are you thankful for today? Think about it. I’m [...]
The Best Pineapple Upsidedown Cake in the world!
So here it is. I threatened you with this recipe months ago but haven’t had the chance to make it or take photos of the results and yesterday I finally got around to doing it. Yes, it’s the best Pineapple Upside-down cake in the world (as I write the…. “in the world” bit, I think [...]
The Wonderful World of the Audiobook & Podcast
Happy Bank Holiday Monday. The sun is shining for a change and isn’t it wonderful! What’s even better is that it’s been shining for the last 3 days and it’s set to continue all through next week. I always say you’re guaranteed good weather the first week of June because that’s when Exams are being [...]
Holidays are the best!
It’s simply been too long. I am disgusted with myself that it’s been so long since I’ve posted. But here and now I’m making a mid year resolution to myself to post at least once a week. Indeed that shouldn’t be too hard now that the American visitors have long since headed home and our [...]
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