Glory Days ...

I learnt a lot about myself this week ... I learnt that I tend to take care of others and neglect myself. I learnt that one thing that hu...

9 Weeks today and I will be in SA ... count down and hopefully a trip to London before that for my dear friend Tracy's 40th!!!! Life is...

Americans Viewpoints on South Africa from Harold Schenk on Vimeo .

Pule Mofokeng Photography :   Stunning photos of a "Traditional wedding" in South Africa! I stumbled upon this blog and had ...

I park my car in the back streets of D8 just South of the Liberties, this morning I was a bit earlier than normal and managed to get a par...

New Blog Title for a revamped blog ... now just to get the time to blog!

A friend asked me about my blog last night and we decided I was "All blogged out" but am I , every now and again I still feel lik...

Just like summer never arrived, Winter is proving to be exactly the same, it's been between 12 and 17 degrees most of last week. I...

Friendship ~ None of that Sissy Stuff Are you tired of those sissy 'friendship' poems that always sound good, but never actually...

Gallery: KwaZulu-Natal snow : "Widespread snowfalls interrupted morning routines but South Africans did not mind - they took to the in...

One of the guys at work today was telling me he was going to the "Galway Races", as it is Galway festival time, and he recommende...

One of my favorite singers of all time, I somehow new she was going to join the likes of Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morr...

A very special friend sent me this today and the words are just so true ...  Before you say “I can’t” Make sure you’ve already tried. B...

I never blogged about the most important thing that happened to me this year.  Well I have to go back to when I was unemployed and looking ...

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Inspiration Line - Daily Inspirational Quotes - Friendship and Love : "In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. ...

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon...but that we wait so long to begin it

This morning I was thinking about what I really miss from home, and the first thing that popped up was decent Pizza.  There is no one in t...

I thought I would share one of the Dance songs we do at Zumba, awesome class again tonight!

Tonight I was at the Gym doing my 20 laps or more before our Boot camp aerobics class, when in waltzes the skinniest girl I ever saw, long b...

Funny thing, being in Ireland for 10 years now makes me think that when we were living in the rat race, we were always working and life real...

Someone sent me these photos today, which I had to share with you because they are absolutely awesome, they were taken of t...

So I went, and I had so many flashbacks, firstly I can't dance, secondly I have absolutely no co-ordination - but I did it.  The guy who...

Well after our walk along the cliffs to Greystones, I have become a bit more motivated with my exercise. On Sunday I went off to the poo...

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I was amazed at the new Google Earth, that actually shows you the house quite clearly almost like a photograph but in 360 degrees because yo...

Today was one of those days where you weren't quite sure what the weather was going to do, but we took the chance and packed a picnic ba...

I suddenly realised on Wednesday the 21st of June (Longest Day of the year) that I had been in Ireland for 10 years.  I remember the day so ...

“ Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it. ” “ This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you wa...

“This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips...

How I managed to get D out of bed by 8 on Sunday, God only knows but we managed and we left the house by  9:10 a.m. to meet Lisa in Bray by ...

I was just thinking what an amazing life my child has, she has been around the world, she has traveled extensively, and she really does have...

This morning I was in the kitchen listen to Radio Nova   as usual except this time we were childless, Em had a sleep over at a friend while ...

Well the main aim of the concert was to go see Def Leppard, but after seeing them in Belfast in 2008 I thought last nights gig was not that ...