Most of the autumn leaves have fallen and many of the trees in Mourne Park are now looking very stark against a very grey wintery sky. Another season – more changes – different work to do around the place. Lots of wood chopping still needed to keep the home fires burning, heaps and heaps of…
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Raining today in Northern Ireland. You might say “what’s new??” but it’s hardly rained since we arrived a couple of weeks ago. Cold, clear days – the temperature has rarely gotten over 5 degrees Celsius during the day – but the sun has been shining. I’ve attempted to dry some washing outside but it just…
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This post is part of a series called Snap Shots We left our little Lisbon apartment and caught the bus from Rossio Square to the airport. We could have caught a plane to Dublin – a much more direct route back to our house sit in Northern Ireland – but decided on a much more…
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Less than a week now till we leave Mourne Park. This has been a unique, very enjoyable house sit. So much so we are coming back mid/late November for a 2-3 months. It will be very different – not much chance of snow but we can always hope! Mourne Park is a place of contrasts…
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The drought has broken at Mourne Park!! Our wonderful house sit in Northern Ireland. We went from hermits – just the three of us – to a full house!! It was Chris’ birthday last Saturday and we had a continual flow of visitors. The first friends arrived late morning with lots of goodies – salads,…
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