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Born in Dublin, living in London with Peter, and our dogs Woody and Lilly

Weekly Photo Challenge: Patterns in Science

This weeks Weekly Photo Challenge is Pattern. I love finding patterns in things.  When I was in University we went to CERN in Switzerland to see the ATLAS particle detector in the Large Hadron Collider and I found lots of … Continue reading

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The Big Egg Hunt (UK) Egg 8

This egg is skipping the alphabet queue.  I took lots and lots of photos of it, and I think it is one of my favourite of the eggs I found in Covent Garden this Easter.  It’s getting to skip the … Continue reading

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern

This weeks Weekly Photo Challenge is Pattern, and for me the hardest thing was choosing just one photo, I love patterns, and I am always photographing them 🙂 I particularly love photographing patterns in nature, which is why I have … Continue reading

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Weekly Photo Challenge: From Above

I haven’t participated in the Weekly Photo Challenge for some time, I’ve been busy getting better, and I found the prompts a bit uninspiring, although I could have posted lots of pictures for the challenge ‘Culture’ The sun has finally … Continue reading

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The Big Egg Hunt (UK) Eggs 6 & 7; Abstract Painting #1 and Adventure Time Bro Hug

This is my 200th post! So I have decided to post 2 eggs again.  (Also I don’t have many pictures of them!) The first is called Abstract Painting #1 by Thomas Whittle   [The hashtag (#) means number for those of … Continue reading

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The Big Egg Hunt (UK) Egg 5; A New Way of Life

This egg was one of my favourites, I kept coming back to it again and again I’m not sure that the photographs do it justice.  I’m also not sure how the title relates to the egg, but I couldn’t stay … Continue reading

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Spring has made it to my Garden!

Last week we had a couple of days where the temperature topped 20°C, and the flowers that had almost given up burst into blossom Even Myrtle got a chance to explore the garden for the first time this year.  This … Continue reading

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The Big Egg Hunt (UK) Eggs 3 and 4; A Frugal Meal and A Monument to The Egg

Today I am posting two Eggs, one of which I like, the other doesn’t really do much for me. Which do you think is which? Which egg do you prefer?

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The Big Egg Hunt (UK) Egg 2; A Common History

The second Egg in my egg-alphabet is entitled ‘A Common History‘.  A coincidence that the first two eggs have the word history in their titles. I’m not really sure what the meaning of this one is, but maybe I will … Continue reading

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The Big Egg Hunt (UK) Egg 1; …an uncertain daily history

Following my first post about The Big Egg Hunt in Dublin, some people commented that there had been a similar event in Covent Garden in London last year, so my investigating brain started ticking over & I Googled ‘Big Egg … Continue reading

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