About Me
My name is Bernadette, I am married, have three children, and two dogs. I’m living in South Dublin, Ireland. I have a degree in History & Politics and a Montessori Teaching Diploma. Avid Reader, total Francophile, Love to travel, love the theatre, creative writing, walking, history, politics, poetry, furniture restoration, collecting old post cards, genealogy, visiting galleries, photographic exhibitions, and writing. Also make patchwork quilts, cushions, etc. Currently working on tracing my family history.
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gypsydoodles
August 14, 2011
postcards are also one of the things i’d love to collect. =) see you around here.
bernadetteryan
August 14, 2011
Great, will put up a post about the postcards soon!
gypsydoodles
August 14, 2011
woopey! can’t wait! =D
durrushistory
October 28, 2011
Hi,
Interesting blog, I also live in southDublin and have an interest in genealogy.
Best wishes,
westcorkdurrushistory
Bernadette
October 28, 2011
I am tracing my family history for the past year or so, was at the Genealogy event in RDS last weekend, got quite a lot of information.
nigel Fletcher
October 29, 2011
hello, I just came across your blog and thought about my visit to Dublin a few years ago, wonderful place. Although I have just moved to France I still miss some of those special places back in the UK and Ireland.
Bernadette
October 29, 2011
Hi, lucky you living in France, always wanted to spend at least a year there since I first fell in love with it when I was 16, a very long time ago! Love your dog, I had a retriever just like yours, died about four years ago. Had a look at your blog, great paintings, another thing I wish i could do is paint, instead I just admire other peoples!
nigel Fletcher
October 29, 2011
Where did you go when you went at 16, was it south, which is where I really wanted to go, but house prices are too high and a little over-run there, this area is very French and quite rural so you get the feeling that not much has changed over the years.
Bernadette
October 29, 2011
I used to go to Paris, then down to Menton in the south, I love the south of France, have been going on holidays there since 2005 to a little place called Villefranche- Sur Mer. I would love a place in France, but like you I find that houses prices are too expensive, so if I ever get to go it will be to somewhere cheaper.
durrushistory
October 29, 2011
Hi,
Re postcards the Belfast Telegraph’s website has an area devoted to old Irish postcards
westcorkdurrushistory
Bernadette
October 29, 2011
I just checked out that site, thanks a lot for telling me about it, its great, they have a fabulous collection of postcards etc.
fivereflections
February 5, 2012
hello
david in Maine USA
it must be beautiful in dublin!
Bernadette
February 5, 2012
Hi David, yes Dublin is a lovely city, I believe Maine is beautiful too. I think u follow my daughter’s blog, Journalitico.
fivereflections
February 7, 2012
I hope she has a chance to discover everything she is in pursuit of… she certainly sounds like an achiever.
Your Montessori teaching background sounds interesting – I can imagine how intellectual the world would become, if we could all discover the things we naturally desire to learn, at a very early age.
hope your winter is mild!
David
Bernadette
February 7, 2012
Hi, Yes she has always been an achiever, a bit of a perfectionist, and really hard worker! She just loves America, Her emails to me are just full of excitement about Washington, and what she is doing everyday.
Teaching Montessori was very interesting, great to get kids at the age when you can shape them a bit and when they are so willing and able to absorb everything. Winter has been very mild, no snow so far, unlike last year, looking forward to Spring! Bernadette.
fivereflections
April 28, 2012
hope all is well in your area. does it feel like spring yet?
David in Maine USA
Bernadette
April 28, 2012
Hi David, no not at all, no sign of spring, cold, wet, windy, and we have even had hail and snow showers! What’s it like in your part of the world? By the way, I love reading your Haiku,.
fivereflections
April 28, 2012
the nights are cool, but today it is sunny and lots of green and blossoms…
Bernadette
April 28, 2012
Lucky you!