so yes I am still on my hols, and enjoying it very much.
Quick summary so far:
June 28th: last day at school.
July 2nd/3rd: Heatwave started in Ireland!
July 5th, 6th, 7th: Feile Camogie competition in County Limerick, my 13 yr old played a few camogie matches in sweltering heat!
July 8th, final day of packing the suitcases, temps of up to 30degrees C all day, couldn't sleep much that night, humid and warm night,
July 9th: alarm clock rang at 4am, all up and out, on the road to Dublin Airport, heading for our flight to Sweden. Flew via Copenhagen, landed Göteborg, about 6pm. Finished off the day with a stroll down Andra Långgatan and a pizza from Pizza Rimini on Plantagegatan.
July 10th to July 22nd: Göteborg, and Karlstad. Bada utomhus Örsholmens Tjärn (6 ggr minst), bada, bada, bada i Sundstabadet, bada, calzone, bada Getingberget, såg Stamfrändsmonumentet utanför Sunne igen (första gång var i oktober 1990 med Mikael och hans far H), var en heldag på Sunne Vattenland, åt gott hos Ölmes Prästgård ( Farmor fyllde 90), Siobhan såg en snok i vattnet, Sean trillade i, åkte på grusväg hem till Karlstad, cykla, virka, spinna med ny turkisk slända, såg elefanter säl och sjölejon (circus in town), drack Earl Grey te, Jag Körde Hem från Sunne! kusiner V och M, farbror J, Farmor I, BBQ med massor av Mikaels kompisar, cykla, bada, hitta nya lekplatser, åt gott, bada..... (basically translates as lots of swimming in lakes, eating Calzone and other pizzas, a snake in the water, elephants in the park, cycling, crochet, spinning on my new Turkish spindle and a bit of driving, on the wrong side of the road!)
July 23rd: alarm clock 4 am, på Landvetter Airport hotell this time, breakfast buffet (best ever!!) at 4,30 am, then flew out at 7am to Copenhagen, then Dublin, and drove home to Limerick and our own little house.
sigh......
July 24th: Daughter's birthday, but wet damp dull day, and all that unpacking and sorting to do...
July 25th: party for dear daughter, sun shone and lots of cousins and friends came, all had a smashing day!
July 27th: drove to Kilkenny Nowlan Park for a concert: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN! Woo Hoo!!!! Brilliant night, over 3 hrs of non-stop music! Smashing! drove home, got home 1.45am.
July 28th: spent almost 2 hours happily spinning and meeting people in Zest cafe in limerick city, at the Limerick Knitting and Spinning and Craft group
July 29th, beginning to get down to the nitty gritty of doing the stuff that has to be done before school...
Hope the summer is treating you all well wherever you are,
hope it's not too hot, or too wet,
Me, I like it changeable, I do not like searing heat. Love watching the clouds roll in and then roll away after the showers.
Ha det så bra under sommaren!
Have a good summer
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Sunday, June 30, 2013
On my holliers!
Yes, I am On My Holidays!!
Finally, I've a chance to rest a bit, walk a bit, tidy up the house and get sorted for our trip to Sweden in about a week's time.
I am also trying to do a bit of spinning every day, and hopefully will get some knitting/crochet done in Sweden.
The weather is not very summery, but I don't mind for now, I prefer it when the weather isn't extreme. My idea of extreme is anything above 22 degrees Centigrade!
Hope people out there are enjoying your summer, wherever you are, or your Winter if you are Down Under in Australia!
Finally, I've a chance to rest a bit, walk a bit, tidy up the house and get sorted for our trip to Sweden in about a week's time.
I am also trying to do a bit of spinning every day, and hopefully will get some knitting/crochet done in Sweden.
The weather is not very summery, but I don't mind for now, I prefer it when the weather isn't extreme. My idea of extreme is anything above 22 degrees Centigrade!
Hope people out there are enjoying your summer, wherever you are, or your Winter if you are Down Under in Australia!
Thursday, June 27, 2013
almost there!
second last day in school today,
holidays tomorrow! Yippee!!!
sports day and raising of Green Flag yesterday, hurray!
roll on Friday afternoon!
holidays tomorrow! Yippee!!!
sports day and raising of Green Flag yesterday, hurray!
roll on Friday afternoon!
Monday, June 17, 2013
displacement activities
is that what it's called when you do not do the task that you really need to do, the one that you have to do for work, the one with the looming deadline, and instead choose to do things like write in your blog, or search online for spinning wheels for sale in Munster Ireland (found one for sale in Kerry) or even in Karlstad Sweden, cause really I Cannot Possibly Go On Holidays Without A Wheel......
meanwhile the piles of reports and tests remain by my side, yes, well I'll be back at them very shortly now
and as for my 2 beautiful spinning wheels, well, I dream of spinning, and I croon to my wheels as I walk past them 'Soon, my lovelies, soon, I will be free to sit and spin.....'
Just another 2 weeks, less than that now as it is now only 9 school days left.....
meanwhile the piles of reports and tests remain by my side, yes, well I'll be back at them very shortly now
and as for my 2 beautiful spinning wheels, well, I dream of spinning, and I croon to my wheels as I walk past them 'Soon, my lovelies, soon, I will be free to sit and spin.....'
Just another 2 weeks, less than that now as it is now only 9 school days left.....
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Lovely June Sunday morning
It's a lovely Sunday morning in June, what I mean is it's dry, not raining and a bit overcast, but the forecast os good. (Can you tell that my favourite TV programme of all time is the Weather Forecast? and that I love that there's a new one with new pictures every evening?)
I am at my computer, obvs, trying to download a thing called Nitro reader, free pdf reader and creator, and thankfully I have now succeeded. I needed this Nitro in order to wr ite my end-of-year school report cards, an onerous task which will probably take most of today and tomorrow, bleurgh...., but it has to be done.
I had a lovely walk/run at 8am this morning, (I am now trying to lose a bit of the baby fat, the child is 7 years old after all, it'd be time for me, eh?) Although Run is a bit of an exaggeration, Accelerated Shuffle might be a more apt description. Still, I'm up and out and about, and that has to be a good thing.
Father's day today, gotta make sure two dads in this world are happy, my own and my childrens' dad!
Hope ye have a good day today!
I am at my computer, obvs, trying to download a thing called Nitro reader, free pdf reader and creator, and thankfully I have now succeeded. I needed this Nitro in order to wr ite my end-of-year school report cards, an onerous task which will probably take most of today and tomorrow, bleurgh...., but it has to be done.
I had a lovely walk/run at 8am this morning, (I am now trying to lose a bit of the baby fat, the child is 7 years old after all, it'd be time for me, eh?) Although Run is a bit of an exaggeration, Accelerated Shuffle might be a more apt description. Still, I'm up and out and about, and that has to be a good thing.
Father's day today, gotta make sure two dads in this world are happy, my own and my childrens' dad!
Hope ye have a good day today!
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
I'm back!
I'm back in business again, writing a bit in here and reading your blogs!
Holidays soon, thankfully.
My eldest daughter turned 18, amazing!
We had a glorious week of summer weather in Ireland, but the Weather Gods are making up for that now by pelting us with rain, like the rain we usually get, plus the backlog of rain we didn't get last week as well as penalties and fines for daring to not get rain for a week.
Still, I am ok with the rain, it softens the earth, nourishes and waters the fields and grass and plants and gives life.
I was at a Graduation Ceremony yesterday in Limerick, my brother became a medical doctor, Well Done J!
I have 2 weeks left of school until the holidays Yippee
Holidays soon, thankfully.
My eldest daughter turned 18, amazing!
We had a glorious week of summer weather in Ireland, but the Weather Gods are making up for that now by pelting us with rain, like the rain we usually get, plus the backlog of rain we didn't get last week as well as penalties and fines for daring to not get rain for a week.
Still, I am ok with the rain, it softens the earth, nourishes and waters the fields and grass and plants and gives life.
I was at a Graduation Ceremony yesterday in Limerick, my brother became a medical doctor, Well Done J!
I have 2 weeks left of school until the holidays Yippee
Thursday, May 16, 2013
long long time no speak
Well, people,
how are you all out there in bloggland....
It has been a very long time since last I wrote in this little blog, for this I apologise.
For a little while there, I even thought of erasing and deleting the blogg, but then when it came to the crunch I couldn't do it, at least not yet.
I believe that for a blog to be enjoyable and interesting the writer probably should have a good camera and the time to sit and upload the photos and actually get them on the blog; as well as which the writer ought to have the time to write something on the blog every so often (at least weekly).
Unfortunately I do not have these things: husband has an excellent camera, but I have not got the time to get to grips with it, nor do I have the time to put up the photos I do take with my little mobile phone camera nor time for writing as frequently as I would like.
So should I close up the blog or not? Well I am not deciding on that yet.
Life has just been busy around here with the usual, work, children and husband, the house, and more work.
Here's a quick summary:
March 2013: St Patrick's Day and dear daughter's 16th birthday.
April 2013: Easter and holidays and dear son's 7th birthday. 2 German students came and stayed for a week in our house, as part of an exchange programme organised by my daughters' school.
May 2013: 4 Swedes came and visited, and my Swede showed them around County Clare and Adare and Limerick etc.
Husband's birthday this week. Cake at the weekend to celebrate maybe?
Some spinning gets done, some walking, some photos get taken of clouds, wild flowers, wool and spinning wheels, but of course they remain safe and sound in the mobile phone.
For now I will continue to be a blogger, intermittently so.
I can assure you all that I love to read the updates on all my followed blogs as often as I can.I must say it has been lovely to read how life is for different women around the world, via these amazing things called blogs.
Good Luck to you all in your endeavours for the rest of the week and the weekend,
I hope to be back soon again
E
how are you all out there in bloggland....
It has been a very long time since last I wrote in this little blog, for this I apologise.
For a little while there, I even thought of erasing and deleting the blogg, but then when it came to the crunch I couldn't do it, at least not yet.
I believe that for a blog to be enjoyable and interesting the writer probably should have a good camera and the time to sit and upload the photos and actually get them on the blog; as well as which the writer ought to have the time to write something on the blog every so often (at least weekly).
Unfortunately I do not have these things: husband has an excellent camera, but I have not got the time to get to grips with it, nor do I have the time to put up the photos I do take with my little mobile phone camera nor time for writing as frequently as I would like.
So should I close up the blog or not? Well I am not deciding on that yet.
Life has just been busy around here with the usual, work, children and husband, the house, and more work.
Here's a quick summary:
March 2013: St Patrick's Day and dear daughter's 16th birthday.
April 2013: Easter and holidays and dear son's 7th birthday. 2 German students came and stayed for a week in our house, as part of an exchange programme organised by my daughters' school.
May 2013: 4 Swedes came and visited, and my Swede showed them around County Clare and Adare and Limerick etc.
Husband's birthday this week. Cake at the weekend to celebrate maybe?
Some spinning gets done, some walking, some photos get taken of clouds, wild flowers, wool and spinning wheels, but of course they remain safe and sound in the mobile phone.
For now I will continue to be a blogger, intermittently so.
I can assure you all that I love to read the updates on all my followed blogs as often as I can.I must say it has been lovely to read how life is for different women around the world, via these amazing things called blogs.
Good Luck to you all in your endeavours for the rest of the week and the weekend,
I hope to be back soon again
E
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