At the end of the summer we wanted to do something fun as a family and this trip to Tayto Park in Ashbourne, Co. Meath was as much for Mommy and Daddy as it was for the toddlers. I'm going to save you a lot of reading time here, whether or not this is a great idea...
Do your mornings look like a scene from Lord of the Rings? Mine usually do. It's a whirlwind fight of the breakfast monsters in the cottage and I was yearning for a more peaceful calm wake up. This usually brings my mind into the cycle of "oh why can't the...
As September rolls in I always make myself a 'To Be Read' pile. It consists of all the books that I was going to read over the summer but never got around to and also titles that have been recommended to me or I've seen using the 'bookstagram' tag on Instagram....
As we fall back into our September routine here at the cottage, I remembered that I wanted to thank all of you for your continued support for this blog and podcast. So much has happened since September 2016 that I don't really know what to say other than thank...
Like many people who live in Ireland, I tend to overlook what is right on my doorstep. This summer we decided to do the Boyne Valley heritage drive. That's two adults and two toddlers exploring parts of Ireland's ancient east. I will say that Carol's book Echoes of...
It has been a while since I have posted a personal post and I thought this was a good time to catch up on life in the cottage. Last week, after eight years, we lost our rabbit Berry. To those of you who found my blog /podcast through Instagram it was probably a...
If you are stuck with kids over the summer holidays it's hard to find places to go. I hold my hands up and say that I have two toddlers 3 and 2 years old and they absolutely loved the Battle of the Boyne Visitor Centre. This is not a paid for post and this was just a...
Today is my birthday and I'm sitting in the garden listening to the birds. Watching them fly, have dirt baths and knock each other into the pond. In this quiet serenity, my mind always wonders. I don't know if this is something that everyone does but when my birthday...
Recently I got to photograph the beautiful Bealtaine Shawl by Carol Feller for Woollinn. You can read about the design here on Carol's blog and the exclusive Woollinn Kits and more importantly what the shawl stands for here on the This is Knit blog but today I thought...
I get asked a lot of questions about what I do and for a long time, I couldn't really answer. I would bounce between content creator, blogger, writer and lately photographer and in all honesty, I do all of those things. I'm paid for all of those things under the...