"Meat and two veg" is the Irish way…
I’ve been tutting, sighing and doing some serious eye-rolling at any number of blogs and American’s version of ‘Irish’ over the last few…
Category: Holidays
Day 4 – Heading home and unfinished business!
Our alarms went off at 6.30am, we were both knackered, but we checked out and left the hotel around 8am, getting to the…
Day 1 – Livermore, Stockton, Sacramento and Berkeley!
It was time to go! I hadn’t had the weeks of excitement building up to this trip, as I’d other stuff to ‘get…
The magic of Christmas traditions!
Everyone has their own holiday traditions which they grow up with and can recall from their youth. When you get older, get married,…
Seeing in the New Year…
Boxing day, I got up, hit the sales and promptly came home. I wasn’t well at all. I think I picked up a…
Really getting in to the festive spirit – Eggnog cupcakes!
For those of you who don’t know what Eggnog is, go here. A few years ago in our wee apartment in Larne, I…
''Be-cause I'm soooo, Caught up!''
Tuesday October 25th, we had, what could only be described in the Madden household, as a lie-in. Poppy let us sleep until almost…