I put this off til late and now I’m tired and I just want to go to bed already. Lazy Lizzie. It seems that summer is currently paying us a visit in Cork with a predicted heat-wave to hit us this weekend (bear in mind that a heat-wave in Ireland is when you hang your […]
I very nearly headed off to bed without doing today’s scribble, I completely forgot! Given it’s now 11.40 pm, forgive me but I’m not going to write much. I didn’t leave Dublin til 7 pm and with going out last night and walking all around the city today I’m really tired. I’m sure I’ll have […]
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 […]
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 […]
I’m sitting at the desk, blank page open ready to begin another blog post, with my head lying on my hands as I day-dream about what to write. I have literally no idea. Whatever follows from these two paragraphs will be as unexpected to me now, as it will be to you as you’re reading […]
We’re back home in cosy little Cork after our exciting adventures, tired and looking forward to sleeping in our own bed but also feeling a little unsettled. To be true, it’s been a year since I’ve been anywhere other than the quiet, gentle towns of Ireland’s south-west and I’m feeling delightfully stirred up by all the […]
It’s been a long looooong day and I am totally and utterly pooped. We walked our little feet off for six hours in the concrete jungle of Dublin city. In the pouring rain. With a crappy little umbrella that blew apart after five minutes (and there wasn’t even any wind!). 3FE was our first port […]
It was a lazy Sunday – I had done very little bar morning yoga and a shower and as the afternoon wore on I became very unsettled, firm in the belief that by not being productive I was somehow wasting my one precious day off. Now a Buddhist monk may well have sat on his […]
I’ve been very absent from blogging recently. Life has gotten pretty hectic, it always does coming up to Christmas, but especially if you work in either the retail or hospitality industry. The past two years I’ve worked in both simultaneously! And it seems likely to be the case again this year. But though it may […]
Given that I’m only a week back from India, I’ve quite recently experienced the joys of long flights and a disturbed body-clock and the general wear and tear of this exhausting activity that I love so much. Here’s a few of the more interesting elements of my journey home: the things travelling did to me… Required me to rise […]
Coffee and Scribbles 