Back in Birmingham

Paul is back at work cutting the trees back from the garage roof, ready for the leaks to be repaired

Back from Dublin & I am off to Devon to see the family

A visit to The Eden Project in Cornwall

The Mediterranean Biodome was my favourite part

Fowey Beach
I wonder who left this in the sand.   Aahh

Austin makes oat pancakes for Mother's Day breakfast

Later we went to Saltram House - National Trust
They do wonderful teas in the converted chapel
A variation on the Devon Cream Tea
A Devon Cheese Tea.
Cheese scone, butter, grated cheese and chutney
Beautiful .....

Catch up. More of our visit to Dublin

The Legends Bar in our hotel

But we preferred The Old Storehouse
No large stage or stage lighting
This was our second evening there

Pigs
There were 100 of them around Dublin
All decorated by different artists

This was one of my favourites
Ready for the beach

There was a competition to enter if you found 20 or more
I found around 30 so I am in the draw for the prize
Two nights in Dublin !
There was a book with a map of their locations so it meant that we explored parts of Dublin that we had never seen before.
Sponsorship and the final sale of the pigs was to raise money for a charity for terminally ill children (under 5's)

Our last evening in The Old Storehouse and a Hen Party arrived

  She asked for a kiss and Paul obliged

Final Act, final evening - this band were fantastic
What a guitar player

Happy Birthday Paul

An excellent evening of music

At the Old Storehouse Temple Bar

We are staying at the Arlington Hotel
The Legends bar has live music and Irish dancing

Back in the UK

It is SO cold
We decided on the cinema this afternoon
First time in ages
This film is wonderful, moving and strangely heart warming
See it !

Music Hall

I am so sorry that I missed the last night.

A few pics with thanks to Barrie (via Facebook)

Our satellite dish has a new home

Roger now has a Satellite controlled car