a hard frost, match called off...

Written late on Sunday 14th November: There was a hard frost last night, (Saturday) and the first planned match for today Sunday was called off, daughter nr 1 was all set to go and play with the local Ladies Soccer team at 11 or so, but their match was called off, due to a frozen pitch!
Daughter nr 3 went to her soccer match around 12.30, and I'm glad to report they won. Jubilation all round and a trip to the shop to celebrate!
Daughter nr 2 got her Irish homework done, with a bit of help from myself and went to her Gaelic Football Development Squad training at 3.30, whereupon I headed off to the shops and got the last few bits and pieces for the week ahead, milk, bread, ham etc.
(There are no school canteens in Ireland, it's 'medhavd matsäck' all the way, ie, bring your own packed lunch to school.=
Det är ett tag sedan jag skrev på svenska senast, ni får inte tro att jag har slutat med svenskan, det verkar bara att alla som bloggar på svenska förstår engelska väldigt bra, och jag underlättar för mig själv genom att skriva på engelska för det mesta härinne, det tar tid att skriva ut allt jag vill säga 2 gånger, en gång på engelska och en gång på svenska!
nåväl, imorgon dagar en ny dag och därmed en ny vecka, få se vad denna ny dag och ny vecka bjuder på...
ha det så bra ni som kikar in hos mig, tack för att ni är trogna läsare! och välkomna hit till dem som har nyligen hittat hit, ni är hjärtligt välkomna!
hälsningar
liz
Kameran glömdes hemma idag den med....suck....

match and tax return

so as usual I've left doing the tax return until the last minute, the only change this year is that I've pretty much left it until the last LAST minute, and this necessitated a mad search this morning for a particular document, which thankfully was duly located and in the process I managed to find a few other things I had put in a 'safe place' and promptly forgot... sigh... This forgetting is getting to be a bit of a habit, I put it down to having so much to do and so much to juggle that I cannot possibly keep it all at the forefront of my mind. That's my excuse anyway.
So the other activity today was taking daughter 1 and 2 to an U16 soccer match, which was a draw, happily for both sides and both sets of mothers and daughters...
Reminder to self: I must start taking photographs for this blog!!!!
Now I can sit and relax for a bit, then head off to Youth Club with one youthful daughter, and later it will be so nice to get home and get cosy in front of the laptop again! :-)))
regards
liz

helgen är över...., the end of the weekend...

I spotted these Germander Speedwell flowers carpeting the ground under a tree


Come in and see how our ancestors lived, in a 2 room cottage, with a sleeping loft and an open fire...


This old 'dresser' caught my eye. My father's uncle made chairs like this one, the seats were made of 'sugan', ie twisted straw rope.



more daffodils, I love them...


I even love dandelions, very enterprising flowers, true survivors, with their strong taproots which break off if you try to pull them up and each piece of which gives rise to a new plant, also their excellent use of the wind for seed dispersal, and boy, so many seeds....


So the weekend is over, sigh...
My girls played a soccer match this morning, a cup final against a team with some very good players. At halftime, our side was a goal behind, 2 to 1, but they equalised at the beginning of the second half. Then it ended 2 all, so it was extra time 10 mins a side, still even score so it went to a penalty shoot out. Unfortunately the other side scraped through by scoring 1 more goal then our girls in the shoot out, so disappointment for our ladies, but still they played very well and the result just showed how close the teams were. Losing is part of it, too... it builds character, my Swede would say, and losing together as a team is not as harsh as losing as an individual. So that's the soccer season over for now, the camogie and Gaelic football is in full swing...

Annars så har det varit en riktigt fin helg, sol och värme, men lite kyligt i skuggan bara. Jag har hängt tvätt så det knakar...
Tillbaks till jobbet imorgon, det blir nog bra det med. Det är bra med rutin, man får så mycket mer gjort, tycker jag, och det är bra för barnen, bättre att gå upp tidigt än att slösa bort dagen i sängen!
Hoppas ni har det bra under veckan, vi 'hörs'!
hälsningar
liz
Enjoy the week, I'm off to my bed, I need all the beauty sleep i can get just to preserve what ever bit of beauty I've got!
Above are a few photos taken last week in Kilmallock, the house is a little cottage where one can walk in and see how people lived 80 or 100 years ago.
Good night!
liz