You know that expression, about how if you haven’t seen a friend for a few days you’re bursting with news but if you haven’t seen them for months you’ve nothing to tell them? This blog feels a little like that. I was chatting to Ben recently about how much I miss bloggi
Starting a new mini series sharing some fun things to do, read and watch this winter, kicking off with this DIY candle how-to, first published in our DIY series for Irish Country Magazine. First things first: I am not buying that this is the ideal time to be hyper productive or creat
An obsession with trucks and tractors and trains and buses that baffles and charms us in equal measure. A love of Bananaphone, of Down by the Bay, and, perhaps more surprisingly, of Ellie Goulding’s Anything Could Happen and The Flaming Lips’ The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song.&
Today I’m sharing some tips for a sweet and simple idea for your 2mk walk: turn into into a hedgerow photowalk. We got lucky with our rental house, in that it’s near beautiful woods and beaches, but alas both of those are closed at the moment leaving us with seemingly bland suburba
We’re so bad at getting photos printed, but when Ari came along I vowed it would be something I would get better at. I adored looking through my mum’s photo albums over and over as a kid, and even though I’ve taken thousands of pictures of my nieces and nephews, it’s the ones
On day 7 I dug out my macro lens. When you’re stuck looking at the same four walls, it’s time to start taking a closer look. My toddler’s golden curl. Our resident back garden blackbird. The shells we picked at the beach on Mother’s Day (not knowing it would be our last
“In my own worst seasons I’ve come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of
A few bits that have caught my eyes and ears over the past few weeks. Listening to Semisonic’s Dan Wilson discussing Closing Time on Song Exploder led me down a delightful internet rabbit hole that included this brilliant compilation of advice – ostensibly aimed at songwriters, but ther
I always boomerang back to the blog in the new year. Something about the breathing space between Christmas and Jan 1st, something about looking back on what has gone and thinking about what will come. I’ve had this little corner of the internet for over 10 years. At various points in my life the p
Ari started crawling about five weeks ago – and promptly turned our world upside down all over again. While adjusting to the new reality of having a moving baby hasn’t been without its challenges (babyproofing allll the things), it’s such a joy to watch him move and see his face light