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Link Love

I’ve never done a pure links post yet (shame on me), but since link love makes the blogosphere go round … and tomorrow is all about warm happy feelings (if you can get over the way the greeting card industry has ambushed this day and made it their own) here, for your pleasure, is link […]

The Perfect Pint: The Bulman Pub in Kinsale

Since becoming a mammy, I haven’t had as many pints of Guinness as I used.
Back in the days before we had to push a buggy, carry her majesty, or dawdle along at a pace only slightly speedier than a snail, we used to spend whole weekends hiking around the hills, mountains and country lanes of […]

Eden @ Bellinter House, Co. Meath

My gran is 93 and lives in a nursing home. She’s still very much up to date with world (& nursing home!) politics and while she’s quite stiff these days, she manages to get around with the help of her walking stick.
There’s not much she hasn’t already experienced, but she always loves an outing and […]

Great gift idea for foodies

Your Recipe Book is a beautifully designed personalised recipe book, full of recipes and messages from family and friends.
The idea is simple: Choose from four different book styles before inviting family and friends to submit their recipes and good wishes through www.yourrecipebook.ie Four weeks later, a stylish, hard backed and uniquely personal recipe […]

Next year’s veggies - the no dig garden

Just in from a great day in the garden. Not my own garden, but the early stages of a community garden training project in Kinsale. The aim is to learn all the tricks for preparing the soil and getting ready for planting and gardening organically now. Then by spring, when we’ll be busy keeping up […]

A Mexican Feast

It’s getting wintery out. The weekend is here and you feel the need to wrap yourself in some gorgeous comfort food. These recipes are just the thing when you have a bunch of friends coming over who are happy to pitch in. You can also do a stripped down version for mid-week dinner and if […]