SPITTING IMAGE – Irish Style

You would really just have to laugh. You don’t need to be a photographer’s wife (like me) or be an expert at digital manipulation (on the computer.. you know Photoshop or similar) in order to see just how effective computer enhancements can be! If you live...

WRITING IN THE CHAOS

One of my new year’s resolutions this year, was to concentrate more on my writing. And as I was announcing this at home, I also bemoaned the fact that I do not have a dedicated writing space. I have since spent many house imagining exactly what kind of ‘writing space’...

WELL… HELLO… BLOG

STOP PRESS…I am really delighted to be now blogging for Hello Magazine’s website. So if you like reading my ramblings and musings and have a passing interest in the going’s on of celebrities, check out the Hello Magazine website – which I have...

Move over Soccer Mom – Here Comes a GAA Ma

Almost nine years ago, my youngest daughter Mia was born. I remember well a conversation I had with a nurse in the hospital who enquired as to how many children I now had. “3” I replied, “all girls.” “Oh”, she said, wondering if I was sad I did not have a son. “I...

Music in the Mountains

We had a wonderfully musical Sunday last weekend, thanks to our youngest daughter, Mia. Mia plays with Cumann Naomh Brid Music Group and they had their annual ‘Ceol agus Stroll’ day in Avondale House in Co Wicklow. The day began with Mass in our Parish...

Bollywood At My Door

I have missed the opportunity to get a photo of this… but outside my front door is a dark pink cherry blossom tree which has been at the height of it’s beauty for the last couple of weeks! As it’s beauty fades, it is showering the garden in pink...