28 February

Just one toddler but you can still feel outnumbered some days!

27 February

Who says men can't multitask?

26 February

Four years old and still going strong.

25 February

Took a bit of time out today in Lough Boora to clear my head a little (brain not working properly at the moment!)

The lough had a thin covering of ice broken by a narrow channel of water.  It reminded me a lot of the painting Lake Keitele by Akseli Gallen-Kallela

After picking up the cake for Busy Bees 4th Birthday (four years!!) the sun was shining on the creepy statues on the way into Tullamore so we doubled back and took a couple of photos.

24 February

Great time in both churches today.  Mountmellick was about as well attended as I have seen it in a long time and in Tullamore we all played snakes and ladders during the sermon and wrote post-it notes to God (it did have a point!)

Came back late afternoon to find this going on out the front door.  Beautiful!

23 February

I thought this was meant to make things look bigger!?!

22 February

A warm welcome on a cold, cold night at Tullamore Film Club.  Shame the film was utterly miserable!

21 February

I love living in Tullamore

20 February

Isobel - "He attacked him with the puppet so hard that he fell off his chair!"

James - "And Parkinson let him get away with it?"

Isobel - "Yes, right up until the day he snuck in and loosened the bolts on his satellite dish..."

19 February

Chilling out after a VERY busy session of Busy Bees (46 other children there!)

18 February

Great afternoon in the park today.  This is James's favourite bit of the playground.

Just up from the zip slide is the most crazy looking tree.  If you ever wonder where they got the idea for Celtic knotwork from then look no further...

17 February

Got James a new bike today as his knees were banging off the handlebars of his old one.  This was the view from the bike shop.

Here's James on the new bike.  He loves it!

16 February

This little fella has been holding court outside our front door all morning.

15 February

Somewhere up there, through those miserable Midlands clouds, are stars, planets and an absolutely huge asteroid passing close by.  I live in the wrong part of the world to own a telescope :(

14 February

Another, "Where is it?" challenge.

13 February

James took this one

12 February

Some sights are really welcome at the end of a long day...

11 February

Story time for bear this morning

10 February

James engrossed in the Wii U and Isobel watching David Attenborough cuddle a baby rhino.

9 February

Going fuzzy eyed and fuzzy brained looking at Genesis 13 and mulling it over.  Sometimes the most straightforward texts are the hardest ones to preach on.

8 February

Spent the day off in Birr and had a really nice lunch with Rhona and Isobel.

On the way back to pick up James we saw this amazing house

James starts guitar lessons this week.  I can't believe at the age of 7 my little boy will soon be a guitarist!

7 February

So, Mr Eeyore, as I was saying...

6 February

A challenge...

Where in the Tullamore area is this?

5 February

What's the forecast for today Mr Weatherstation?

4 February

I love it when a plan comes together...

3 February

Nearly finished digitising our entire CD collection.  As well as having them on the PC we got a little second hand iPod touch so we could have them all in the car.  Despite being used to technology I still find it utterly bizarre that we have all the music from those two big boxes of around 1600CDs in that tiny little piece of metals, glass, silicon and plastic.

2 February

For your very own gummy bear?  Not sure exactly what kind of Valentine message this one sends!

Don't tell Lynne Truss about the apostrophe use either.  James didn't bother about any of this as he got the sweets he wanted for himself and Isobel.

1 February

Bedtime

Isobel's teddy bear has the same pyjamas as her because they came as a set from Granny