Fil Campbell & Tom McFarland

Such a sad day here in Northern Ireland saying goodbye to a true giant of a leader who was the instrument of peace here and a tireless campaigner for civil rights.   The peace process in Northern Ireland and the subsequent…

I love this monthly photo challenge run by Kate from I Live I Love I Craft.  These are the prompts for June   My garden  At the start of lockdown I was very enthusiastic about getting on top of our…

  So ... I've now done 34 countries on my Round the World Reading Challenge - hooray for lockdown :)   Only another 160+ to go ... and I confess I am dipping into my normal repertoire of UK/Irish/American books and well…

 

 

And yet more titles from my reading challenge ticked off this year so far.


Malaya
The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo ***

I picked this book up from looking at Reese Witherspoon's Book Club list and frankly it wasn't entirely…

Life is starting to slowly picking up speed again around here, with lots of the sessions moving online and our local craft shop opening up for a few days this week.  Like everywhere else, the parks and beaches are packed…

  Hi all, I promised to put up our YouTube link a bit quicker this time from our concert online on Monday night.   It's such a strange way to do a gig, but once we started to see some messages coming…

Some more titles ticked off from my round the world reading challenge.

These are two more titles from the charity book club  ShelterBox which I wrote more about in my last book review post.  

Kuwait

 The Pact We Made…

Hello everyone,   Just a quick note to let you know that Tom and I will be doing a short online set at 8pm Irish time this evening, representing our local folk club.  The concert will be available on You Tube…

Hello everyone,   How are you all coping with the continuing lockdown?  I'm finding that it's taking me even longer to get anything done and after 10 weeks I'm really relaxing into this pace of life. 

A few weeks back I…

 

I've been trying to take the time this month to get some much needed rest and blogging has fallen by the wayside again .... so I thought I'd at least try to jump in and join the Photo Scavenger Hunt…

 

Taken from the Letters With Wings Page    “And so, her name at the top left-hand side of the envelope; under it, the address of her prison” - Joseph Andras   For Poetry Day Ireland, in a difficult moment where…

I've been getting through lots of books on my round the world reading challenge since the new year and the lockdown has been helping me get through the pile lying by my bedside.   I've updated the list on the dedicated…