Category Archives: Family

When I was little I think from age 4 – 8 or 9 all I wanted for Christmas was a pony. Then when I was 9 it switched to knee-high boots, although I didn’t actually want knee high ones, I wanted ones like Julia Roberts had in Pretty Woman. Pretty sure I shouldn’t have been […]

…..A Whiskey distillery??? I know, on paper this was one of those ideas that should NOT have worked out. Alcohol, a distillery tour, 4 young kids.  It had all the elements to be a complete disaster. But armed with a supervalu voucher that got 1 adult in for FREE, we set off 20 minutes down […]

Dudes. Google ‘things to do in Ireland’ and Clonmacnoise comes up as one of the top 10. Its literally 5 minutes drive from my house. Cool. Its a monastery /ruined castle/ graveyard and visitors centre /shop attraction on the banks of the River Shannon.We visited last week when Nanny Barry came to stay. Hiiiii nanny […]

As promised Im starting the house tour with the guest room/office. I feel like I need to start with some back story. When we moved over here we did it ourselves, as in me, Mr Clev, and his nephew, in a transit van. So thats basically 6 peoples worth of stuff in a transit van. […]

When we walked around Portlick on Monday we walked through this gorgeous bluebell wood, it was lovely, and the sun was out (briefly, but it was out). It was a total Kodak moment, so I started getting everyone set up in order to capture a ‘great’ photo of my 4 little lovelies. I STILL am […]

What a wash out. Ok well it wasnt that bad I guess, but I know from facebook that England had way better weather than we did here and IM SO SO JEALOUS!!!!! I love it here I really do, but there is nothing quite like an English bank holiday at the beach with everyone jammed […]

The weather since we moved has been ‘interesting’ as in, sunny but not hot, or just plain rainy, oh and a week ago we had gale force wind and no one slept for 3 days because it sounded like the house was going blow away!! Half decent weather is promised for the Bank Holiday weekend […]

So we left England on Good Friday, missed the ferry, stayed at the travelodge, got the Saturday ferry, Mr Clev returned on the same ferry we just arrived on, got to Glenamaddy, woke up on Sunday with Amelie vomming and needing hospital attention, spent Easter Sunday in Galway hospital, Mr Clev arrived on Monday, moved […]