Day One

David Bowie Is

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Barbara

I have tickets for us to go see the David Bowie Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London which opens today! Continue reading →

Posted in Art, London, Music | Tagged David Bowie, David Bowie Is, David Robert Jones, V&A, Victoria and Albert Museum, Ziggy Stardust | 14 Comments

Travel Theme; Time

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Barbara

When in London, one of the top places to visit is Big Ben.

The name Big Ben is often used to describe the tower, the clock and the bell but the name was first given to the Great Bell. The tower is called the Elizabeth Tower, but if looking for directions in London, it would be best to ask for Big Ben! Continue reading →

Posted in Boats, England, London, Photography, Travel | Tagged Big Ben, Elizabeth Tower, Houses of Parliament, Palace of Westminister, Postaday, River Thames, Travel Theme, Victoria Tower | 20 Comments

An Apple Blossom Tree

Posted on March 21, 2013 by Barbara

I brought my camera with me yesterday when taking Wilson for a walk. It was a cold grey Novemberish day, dark clouds, the threat of snow, but I thought if I don’t bring it, I will regret it.

At one point I noticed the sun trying to peep out from behind the clouds, and a blue patch of sky, so I steered our game of ball/stick towards a beautiful cherry blossom tree.

Continue reading →

Posted in Photography, Spring, Weybridge, Wilson | Tagged Cherry Blossom, ForThePromptless, meraki, Panasonic DMC-FZ62, Photo Challenge, Postaday, Prompt for the Promptless | 22 Comments

Please visit Dave in hospital (virtually)

Posted on March 21, 2013 by Barbara

My friend Dave from teacher training (he is a lot younger than me) is in hospital for the third time with leukaemia since starting our course in 2009. His blog plots his progress and his hiccups, and he’s in the middle of a huge hiccup.

He’s a maths teacher & loves the stats pages on WordPress, so if anyone who reads this can pop over & pay his blog a visit, he will be well chuffed when he is well enough to have a look at the stats pages again.

And if people out there have words of encouragement for him, that would be fab too, he has a team of family & friends by his bedside who are reading our comments to him at the moment

Ta

Keep Calm And Chemo On

dick here…

david is getting a lot of positive vibes from every comment we read to him and it really is helping him through this difficult time, but unfortunately they appear to have slowed down of late. We understand that it is hard for people, and not everyone knows what to say, but it’s a lot harder for him and he really needs to hear from every single one of you, even if it is just to say hi! We need POSITIVE comments to get him through this!

much appreciated

D x

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Posted in leukaemia, Maths, Teaching | Tagged cancer, Leukaemia, Nelarabine | 2 Comments

Travel Theme; Green

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Barbara

Green is NOT my favourite colour. I may have mentioned this before.

However there are some things that do look particularly good in green, mainly flora and some reptiles. Not Barbaras. Barbaras do NOT look good in green. Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Dublin, Lilly Plankton, Parakeets, Pets, Photography, School | Tagged Green, Muckross Park College, Panasonic DMC-FZ62, Parakeets, Postaday, reptiles, Travel Theme | 21 Comments

13 things you probably didn’t know about St Patrick’s Day

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Barbara

Reblogged from The Journal.ie

1. St Patrick’s name wasn’t actually Patrick.

His real name was actually Maewyn Succat. Seriously. Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Dublin | Tagged Boston, Dublin, Ireland, Irish, Maewyn Succat, March 17, Montserrat, Shamrock, St Patrick's Day, TheJournal.ie | 4 Comments

Lá Fhéile Pádraig

Posted on March 17, 2013 by Barbara

The day of the festival of (St) Patrick, Paddy’s day.

My daddy is called Patrick, so it has always been Daddy’s day too 🙂 He always sends us (me, my sister and all my cousins) a St Patrick’s Day card, ‘from the other Patrick’ Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Daddies, Dublin, Families, Philately | Tagged Book of Kells, Hail Glorious St Patrick, Ireland, Lá Fhéile Pádraig, Lá le Pádraig, Patriotism, Postcards, St Patrick's Day, Trinity College Dublin | 10 Comments

Weekly Photo Challenge; Lunchtime

Posted on March 16, 2013 by Barbara

What better lunch than a selection of cakes from our local cake sale in aid of Comic Relief 🙂 yummy!

Posted in Photography | Tagged Comic Relief, fundraising, Lunchtime, Old Palace Road, phoneography, Postaday, Postaweek, Red Nose Day, Weekly Photo Challenge, Weybridge | 10 Comments

Upon Small Shoulders

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Barbara

I love Sinéad O’Connor, I always have. When I first heard ‘Troy’ the haunting love song from her first album, The Lion & The Cobra, she was singing from my heart, from my soul. She screamed for me, from me.

As a lover of Yeats’ poetry, and as a child born and raised in Ireland, I understood the symbolism of the lines, I knew too the places about which she sang. 2 years her junior, I was there.

Continue reading →

Posted in Daddies, Dublin, Music, Photography | Tagged Debt Crisis, Greed, How about I be me (and you be you)?, Neil Condron, Sinéad O'Connor, St Patrick's Day, The Celtic Tiger, The Lion and The Cobra, Troy, Upon Small Shoulders, WB Yeats | 37 Comments

Phoneography Challenge for Comic Relief

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Barbara

Welcome to My Neighbourhood part II

This photo is actually taken in my neighbourhood, some local children are having a cake sale on Saturday in aid of Comic Relief (I will update this post with links from my computer shortly)

If you live in Surrey and happen to be anywhere near Weybridge on Saturday, look up Old Palace Road & come along to give them some support!!

My daughter put this slogan on her Instagram Photo ‘Get fat for charity!’