Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Tis the day to be Irish the world over. I remember being in Paris back in 2003 on Paddy’s Day, the Irish Pubs were so packed and wild you could barely get into them. Sometimes I think it’s more fun to be abroad to celebrate the day. When you’re here it […]
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Lately I always seem to do my daily scribble at the end of a long day and as a result, I’m usually tired and uninspired. Today is no different, given I woke at 6 am so I could drop Alex into town to catch a bus to Dublin, worked a full day in the restaurant […]
I don’t think I have a creative idea left in my body at this point. I’ve spent around 3 hours staring intensely at my phone editing photos. To be fair, the photos are pretty damn awesome. No exaggeration, yes I’m bragging, no I don’t care. I recently discovered a few tricks with my photo-editing App […]
Today I had a battle with my inner critic. It didn’t go well. I woke up tired from a busy weekend; a late night on Saturday meeting up with a creative business group in Dublin, a long day wandering around the city yesterday (and some fun meeting an old friend!) and then the bus journey […]
A few days ago, in TK Maxx (where I barely even glanced a the pretty notebooks, I was so good) I found a lovely hardback book documenting the life of the world-renowned fashion designer Vivienne Westwood. For some reason lately her name has cropped up a good few times so when I saw this […]
We went outside this morning into a real winter wonderland, everything buried in inches of thick, white powdery snow. Even the main road outside our house was pristine white, not a mark on it until we waded through it leaving our boots’ imprints in the pure white surface. Emma may or may not have visited […]
Snow is a funny thing, it transforms the landscape from normal (read dull!) to pristine beauty; fields and buildings covered in bright, clean white. The heavy blanket of snowy brings a surreal quiet to the daily rustlings and bustlings of nature, all sounds are muffled and muted. Each step over snow-covered grass provides the most […]
I came home from work this evening and had a cup of tea, and as I relaxed over Instagram, sipping on the hot rooi bos brew, boy oh boy did I crave something sweet. My head swirled with thoughts of Cadbury’s Dairy Milk Chocolate, sweet custard creams, crunchy caramel slices, rich soft brownies… The devil […]
I’ve almost missed day 57 – I mean, technically I have because I’m writing this at midnight on the 27th February, so I didn’t do one for the 26th… And yet I’m here, tired and sleepy, wishing to go to bed but sitting at the computer writing my daily scribble. I don’t have much to […]
Lazy Sundays… I’ve never experienced a better one. I spent a lot of my morning in bed reading a brand new book by the wonderful Marian Keyes (one of the few authors almost guaranteed to always make me laugh out loud and whose take on life is rich and authentic and utterly hilarious) followed by […]
Coffee and Scribbles 