Family

We've (my siblings, their partners, my wife and I) been in Dublin this weekend to help my parents celebrate my Dads retirement with a big party which was last night. We did a surprise performance of a few songs my dad wrote 35 years ago...

I just realised that today marks the 18th anniversary of my leaving Ireland and moving to the UK. What's interesting is that all my immediate family are actually all over in Dublin this weekend. Sandra and Angie had organised to go over for the weekend to...

[caption id="attachment_9220" align="alignnone" width="980"] The View[/caption] Our holiday was truly fantastic! I'll try and follow the photo gallery below: Arrival & Awe - So we arrived in Dublin airport and everything went as planned. My Dad had left his car keys at a pick up point complete...

View Larger Map We are going here soon for 10 days! I am so ridiculously excited!!!!! Here's a wee video I found: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dXkYpDwR84] And here's something that's "TWEE"tastic! - [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5tP_YNh0gs]...

Dear Nugget, I'm sad : that you died I never got to meet you in person I never got to bounce you on my knee or throw you in the air to catch you I never got to rush home for bath time I never got to see you learn how...

So y'day was our 3rd anniversary and while i wished my wife loving wishes on FB I didn't really do much here on the site so I thought `I'd make it by taking a screen grab of her profile which captured my über clever awesomeness...

I love Boxing day cause its Ruth's birthday. My fav part of her birthday is giving her birthday presents. I love her so much. She's great at receiving gifts and she's usually very easy to surprise! [gallery link="file"]...

Another wonderful Christmas day. It was a proper White Christmas. Best bits included: Roast Duck for dinner - Shirley surpassed herself with an awesomely amazing roast Christmas dinner with all the trimmings but the bird was Duck. Not had duck for Christmas dinner before. It was incredible! P...

This year we spent Christmas with Shirley & David.Thankfully the roads had cleared and we were able to drive down to Devon to spend it with them. Christmas eve was lovely. Because of all the snow David was able to take us for a walk down...