Category Archives: Travel

Weekly Photo Challenge: Curves (2)

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Barbara

I found these beautiful mirrors in the visitors shop in Powerscourt House.  I didn’t check whether they improved my curves!!  Weekly Photo Challenge ‘Curves’

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Curves

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Barbara

Here is a photo from my recent visit to Dublin that I wasn’t expecting to be sharing so soon!  As I mentioned in my post for the photo challenge ‘Fleeting‘ I visited The Botanical Gardens in Glasnevin, with Dad on … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting take 2

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Barbara

Walking on Desborough Island the other day with Wilson, wrapped up in my winter woollies wondering what on earth had happened to our summer (again) my eye was caught by these beautiful delicate blue flowers.  It was windy & cloudy, … Continue reading →

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Another Surprise!

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Barbara

For my mum’s 60th birthday the girls, Peter & I bought 99p flights and went on a return trip to Dublin for the day

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Barbara

Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: The sign says

Posted on June 6, 2013 by Barbara

Somebody at WordPress really has been trawling through my physics photos, as yet again I find myself able to respond to this weeks Weekly Photo Challenge with photos from Cern! The challenge announced last Friday is ‘The Sign Says‘ When … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape this rain!

Posted on May 24, 2013 by Barbara

Today doesn’t feel like summer at all! My daughter is having a sleepover in the garden tonight, but it has hardly stopped raining today so far.  I’m not sure should I put the tent up now in the rain or … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape (2)

Posted on May 24, 2013 by Barbara

This has been a busy week!  I was working on Saturday, having a go at the garden on Sunday, preparing for Charlotte’s birthday on Monday & Tuesday, working Wednesday, gardening yesterday… I hardly feel like i have opened my computer!

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape

Posted on May 18, 2013 by Barbara

This weeks Weekly Photo Challenge is Escape When I think of escape, I think of the long white beaches of India, the sea that is warm and refreshing, the sun that warms my skin all day long, every day, without … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Patterns in Science

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Barbara

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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