Claire's blog

The snow is still lingering in places, despite the fact it’s been raining most of today, and it looked beautiful for my birthday. I had a lovely time, spent fairly quietly with family. My grandparents came to visit for the day (I hadn’t seen them for about a year) and we caught up on family […]

It’s been snowing on and off all day, and now everythings covered with a light coating of snow. It’s my birthday tomorrow, so fingers crossed that it’ll last until then!

I hope everyone has had a lovely day, and received everything they wished for. We’ve all had a great time – finished preparing the house, opened our presents, had a marvellous lunch, played a game together, and now we’re sitting down to watch Doctor Who.

So my car (aka Danny) is now officially Irish – numberplates and everything. I felt a bit sentimental as they took the old plates off, and have kept them to put up on my wall 😥 The trips were all fantastic, and I’ve come back shattered (but happy!), and am currently cooking an enormous porkolt […]

Got up at 3.15 a.m. this morning! I was meeting the others in the centre of Galway to catch the 4.30 a.m. coach to Shannon airport, ready for our flight to Dusseldorf. The journey passed without incident – except for a lot of yawning! – until we landed. Then we discovered our flights had been […]

The Christmas Market at Patchings went very well, and I had a great time. We had tons of people coming round, but although they were spending we all noticed that the money was only really coming out for the small items, and very few larger, more expensive items were sold. Small things all add up […]