Birthday

It was my birthday on the first of August. And despite the fact that I’m now in the last year of my forties, it was a great day!
Caiti made me some beautiful presents. I’ve tried several times over the years to teach her how to use the sewing machine, and to knit, as these are [...]

Celebrations and Cornflake Ice-cream

Today, 2nd July, is Ruadhri’s 10th birthday. That’s huge!
He’s come a long way. He was born six weeks early and his first 48 hours were touch and go. Here’s a picture of him all wired and tubed up in his incubator during his early hours. As you can see he’s a bit gory – they [...]

Caitlín

Caitlín (and yes that is an accent on the i – it’s called a foda in Irish and makes the letter long) is 17 today, the 17th. Apparently that’s called a champagne birthday, when your age matches your birth date. But Caiti doesn’t like fizzy drinks or alcohol so not much point giving her any [...]

August celebrations

August begins with my birthday, which the rest of the family are generally much keener to celebrate than I am! But you can’t stop time, so you might as well enjoy its passing. Caiti cooked up a lovely birthday feast for our evening party. She made goat’s cheese and tomato flan
(recipe at http://www.davidlebovitz.com/archives/2010/05/french_tomato_tart_recipe.html), one of [...]