It’s all happening down in SW19 at the moment. I cannot believe that another year has come (and gone) and those of us who do not watch a game of tennis from one end of the year to the next are once again preparing to be captivated for the next…
It’s the funniest of quotes that stick in your mind for an age. I didn’t even know who Robert Strauss was when I stumbled upon this quote several years ago. It didn’t matter. The words resonated with me, logic and humour in equal measure: “Success is a little like wrestling…
Show me a parent who hasn’t almost ripped their hair out over what cars seat to purchase for their precious cargo and I’ll show you a liar! There is so much to consider and so many options out there that it almost would make your brain fry. From the type…
You say tom-AY-to, I say tom-AA-to…..let’s call the whole thing off!!!!!!! Right no need for such rashness here folks. Lets just all calm down. I do have to admit that the words of this song were ringing through my head a few months back when several friends and I arrived…
Let’s set the scene: 1st born’s 1st year on Earth: “Oh would you look!! She’s smiling….quick get the camera ….quick…snap, snap, snap, snap….Oh maybe it wasn’t a smile but I got it!! *hangs immediately printed photos of windy baby on wall. “Right we’re off to my mother’s for dinner…..it’s her…
The witching hour by definition is a time, deep into the evening, at which creatures such as witches, demons, ghosts, and gremlins are thought to appear and to be at their most powerful. Black magic is thought to be most effective at this time. We have a witching hour round ours. Usually…
In an effort to up my steak game, I packed my bag (and camera!) and off I went to my first day back at school….. cookery school that is, in the Kinsale Gourmet Academy on the grounds of Ballinacurra House. To be honest I wasn’t that familiar with the school…
Lazy like a sunday morning as the lyrics go eh? Weekends in our house mean one thing. Beer Parties……oh no, wait! That was in 2005, not 2017. Old habits and all that, eh? Nowadays whilst we are beginning our days roughly around the same time as we ended them a…
There’s a smell of summer in the air round these parts. The clouds have momentarily parted and a few desolate rays of sunshine have managed to sneak on out through those grey winter skies. On feeling the warmth on our pale winter skin, we go a little crazy. Out with…
The threat of baring some flesh in the warm summer time air is looming. It’s time to get up & at ’em. That extra 5% that you give this time of year. Yes, it’s upon us and if you can’t beat them, then join them! I’m a self-confessed fitness addict…
Our house are big smoothie fans – there’s a good place to start this post. True Story: Hubster: “Wiiiiiiifffffffffeeeeeeee, I’m covered in a strange, suspicious looking rash! I don’t like it! It’s not itchy but I’m…. I’m…. I’m not comfortable with this whole situation……..what have you done to me?? I’m dying…yes,…
Darby O’Gill has nothing on me! He may have taken on an army of leprechaun’s but I have a battle of wits with my own set of little people EVERY SINGLE DAY. And my army of smallies are all geared up for an unsurmountable amount of fun & Paddywhackery this St…
Someday I am going to go into my kids bedroom to get them up for school. I say someday as it’s always a pre-dawn start here! But should this occasion arise I fully expect to see 1st born has morphed into a pig overnight. The child eats ham in EVERYTHING. Ham…
Sometimes attack really is the best form of defence. Weekends in February, my friends, is one of those times. The gloss has long gone from our hard thought out New Year’s Resolutions but the threat of the sleeveless tops and poolside swimwear is much too far away to instil any…
Those Roman’s had the right idea. “mens sana in corpore sano” – a sound mind in a sound body So did Pheidippides, who ran the 1st ever marathon. Maybe he was spreading news of his country’s victory over the Persian’s or maybe, just maybe his kids were wrecking his head…
It would be a lie to say that I am a die-hard football fan! A gross exaggeration to put it mildly. I can, however, explain the offside rule, neatly and succinctly (I spent 4 years qualifying as a PE teacher immersed in everything sports related so it would have been…
We are the family that doesn’t go on hotel stays. Self-catering all the way here folks! And believe me it’s not for the need I feel to cook! Nothing would make me happier than a break from it all. When The Connacht Hotel in Galway invited my crew and I…
“1st born likes her pasta plain and the sauce next to it. 2nd born likes her mixed together and with cheese on top. 3rd born hates everything right now but put it out anyway as the day I don’t is the day I’m well & truly beaten. 4th born will…
Last night there was an epic stand-off between a bar of dark chocolate and I. No matter what I did I just kept meeting his gaze across the room. There he was just strutting his stuff around my counter top, all sea salt and caramel. No respect for the…
MotherFool Defn: crazy, sleep deprived, coffee fuelled, anxiety ridden female with crazy hair. She is most commonly found with food & other partially digested substances splashed across her clothing & always puts her offsprings needs in front of hers. She is constantly in need of more time and help. When…
