April 2011
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Four day eat fest
Looking through my camera’s memory card after this Easter Bank Holiday weekend, a clear theme emerged: Food, and lots of it. From yummy barbecued lamb skewers and delicious creme brulée on Friday, to a rustic medieval lunch on Saturday, followed by a mini Easter egg hunt on Sunday. Lots of lounging in the sun and Continue reading
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Sunday stroll
If you’ve ever wondered what reward you might get for walking from Inchicore to Phoenix Park, this is it: Spicy chipotle chicken soup from the Taco Taco stand at the Epicurean Food Hall, and a giant 99, drizzled with either chocolate or raspberry syrup. Yum. Here are my Sunday companions, sis Kelly (32 weeks Continue reading
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Cuteness overload
Baby lambs! Donkeys! Daffodils! A recent trip to Airfield proved almost too much for even my well-honed spring cuteness meter. Who wants to do something new and different with a shot of a baby lamb? Okay, fine, I do, but it’s so much fun to take a picture of them simply, because they’re just so Continue reading
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The sweetness of doing nothing
While watching Eat, Pray, Love with the mammy last Sunday, I was reminded of the lovely Italian phrase ‘dolce far niente‘, which translates as ‘the sweetness of nothing’. It’s meant to sum up that pleasant idleness, that lovely chillaxed feeling you get while people-watching and sitting outside on a sunny day, or eating ice cream Continue reading