I thought I would share this recipe with you, it is one I use regularly and is a great favourite in my house. Today I just needed a chocolate fix, and had nothing to satisfy it in the house, so I baked these cookies in no time at all, ten minutes to prepare and 15 minutes in the oven. Recipe. 1/2 lb of room… [Read more…]
January 24, 2012
Today my daughter is doing her first big assignment in Washington on Capitol Hill. She has been on the Hill, as they say , since 12 noon American time today and will be there all night until Obama finishes his State Of The Union speech. Then she has to get interviews with certain Senators and get the opinions of various other people… [Read more…]
January 15, 2012
One of the great pleasures for me at Christmas is receiving presents of books, or book tokens. Every year without fail I get a lot of books,always books from my children, my husband, and my mother. There is nothing quite like putting them on my bedside table, and deciding which one to start with, then… [Read more…]
January 14, 2012
Yesterday afternoon I had the pleasure of listening to an astronaut from NASA speaking for over an hour. He was in Dublin to talk about his time on the space station. He name is Dan Tani, and he was speaking at the Young Scientists Exhibition here in Dublin. A wonderful event held every year. I went with… [Read more…]
January 13, 2012
I intended adding these old post card images to my last post, however my internet connection was playing up and it was taking me forever, also I have one finger bandaged up and a poultice on it to try to draw out a splinter that just will not budge, so typing is not so easy! Any suggestions… [Read more…]
January 13, 2012
I came across these post cards today at the bottom of a basket full of old documents, old newspapers, and much more.They are reproductions of the original post cards or images. They have been reproduced by the National Photographic Archive, of the National Library of Ireland, a place I love to visit, as it holds the most wonderful photographic Exhibitions. … [Read more…]
January 28, 2012
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