Photohunt Fluffy

Here’s baby dog, Minerva. Compared to her big brother Max,, she’s decidedly fluffy! Weimaraners don’t take a lot of grooming, with their ultra short coats, but Mini’s had to have several baths, and be blow-dried with a hair dryer afterwards. My friend Marleen was enjoying making her hair stand up in a Mohawk She’s starting [...]

Photohunt Bliss

It was tricky to capture what bliss means to me A large cup of tea? A walk by the sea? I don’t like to lie in the bathtub for hours I’d rather have showers, but not scented with flowers But I came home one day, and what do you think – I found this in [...]

Photohunt circular

I often walk Max in Hillsborough forest on a Saturday morning. I gain a real sense of calm by being amongst those magnificent tall trees which have stood there for hundreds of years. There’s always something to marvel at in nature. This pattern of moss on the side of a tree caught my eye. There [...]

Chorizo bean stew

I might blog a few recipes this year! This one is based on a Nigel Slater recipe. I do love Nigel – he has a relaxed approach and an obvious passion for food which is infectious. This is a wonderful hearty soup/ stew, using mostly store cupboard ingredients. Cut a chorizo sausage into chunks,and brown [...]

Photohunt Bling

This one’s for sale! Sputnik light fitting – I had this in my front room in Holywood (wow, 5 years ago). The room itself used to contain my interesting bits and bobs, and we christened it the “design shrine”. This light, with it’s twinkly bulbs and crystal dangly bits hung in there. But all those [...]

2012, the year of Photohunting!

I feel a bit guilty that I’ve been such an intermittent blogger, so I’ve decided in 2012 to do thon photohunt thingy – each week there’s a theme, and I have to find or take a photograph which represents it. This week’s theme is “gather”, whuch gives me the opportunity to share one of the [...]