New Year party pieces…

Heading towards the New Year and a New Years Eve party in the offing.  I can do with some tips on how to be a good hostess.  I am returning home from Mayo at about 2pm and I have to get the house ready and cook a meal  for six people by 7 pm…..aaagh. 
Not to [...]

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Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve 10. 20 pm just had a great visit from the relations, mulled wine, food, hot ham sandwiches, choccies lovely.  Christmas tree in the corner, lights on, jigsaw going, Santa talk with the kids, christmas carols…. traditions, chat.  Good  one. 
Happy Christmas to all…..

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Mentor ssession

I attended the mentoring session last Tuesday organised by Cathy Fitzgerald / Artlinks and Kilkenny County Council Arts Office. It was an extremely useful and informative session with many suggestions on how to further my artistic career, the direction to take with my work and where to go and how to approach galleries.  Cathy took notes on the [...]

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Sunday 7th Dec

New woodburning stove in and working well, all is toasty here.  Much needed in the cold weather.  The guys who put it in did arrive, eventually, only three hours late, but they did a really great job. A fine finish.                                           
Jon and I are just back from Cork having had a take out Chinese meal with son Tom to [...]

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New Stove

I am waiting for the guys to arrive to put in a new woodburning stove in my sunroom.  It’s like a freezer in there totally unusable until at least mid afternoon in winter unless I put on the electric heater, which costs an arm and a leg.  I am not going to hold my breath [...]

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