Certain things are in the air, they seem to float into my consciousness by osmosis. Take for instance Monday night’s full moon and the fact that Mercury is retrograde. I cannot recall where or when I heard about either event, neither had I any idea what Mercury retrograde meant, so I had a quick look on the net. Apparently it’s an astrological concept, a period when Mercury seems to be travelling backwards and during which things are more likely to go wrong than right. Mercury is retrograde three to four times a year, the current period runs from 30th March to 23rd April. Phew, it’s almost finished.
♥ Horoscopes or Hororscopes?
Filed under Musings, The Universe
♥ Tea Brack Recipe
Sometimes eating something sweet, old-fashioned and comforting on a Sunday afternoon is just what I need. This tea brack fits the bill perfectly. The recipe comes from Theodora Fitzgibbon’s book A Taste of Ireland.
Filed under Recipes
♥ God, Mammon & Jeans
God Mammon and jeans are an unlikely Saturday morning troika, I had better explain.
Filed under Musings, Shops/Shopping
♥ Favourite Shops//Formality
Formality is a small but very perfectly formed garden shop. Owned and run by Patrick and Karl it’s in Glasthule a South Dublin suburb. Karl is less often seen in the shop as he is Formality’s garden design guru and is frequently out and about on appointments.
Filed under Dublin, Interiors, Shops/Shopping
♥ Sotheby’s Café London
If you are close to New Bond Street in central London and looking for somewhere to have a coffee (or lunch), I would strongly recommend Sotheby’s café. In fact even if you are not nearby, it is well worth a detour.
Filed under Coffee, London, Restaurants/Cafés, Travel
♥ Are you…
Last Sunday evening while completing my census return, a mundane but obligatory task, my mind wandered back to an article I had read in Saturday’s FT, called ‘Happy Now’? According to the article the Office for National Statistics in the UK will produce a national well-being index. There were no questions about life satisfaction on the Irish Census form.
Filed under Musings, The Universe
♥ Meet my kettle!
Now I realize that buying a kettle isn’t exactly headline news, but as I have lived without one since June 2004 buying my new kettle last month was a bit of an event.
Filed under Interiors, Musings, Shops/Shopping
♥ Honey; Transatlantic Tourist
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
Those closing lines of my favourite poem, The Road not Taken by Robert Frost, often spring to mind when I make a small decision with serendipitous consequences. If I hadn’t stayed in bed for an extra hour this morning, I would never have met Honey – a canine visitor to Ireland. Here’s how it happened.
♥ Super shimmery
Walking down Dublin’s Wexford Street recently, I stopped to go into Djinn a jewellery shop. Dangerous. I know from experience that the only fail-safe way not to spend money in a shop is not to enter it in the first place.
Filed under Craft, Dublin, Jewellery, Shops/Shopping
Books for Cooks
If a trainee fairy maniacal working her way through ‘Bewitchment for Dummies’ were to cast a spell which meant I had to eat lunch in the same place everyday for evermore, I hope that place would be the Books for Cooks café in London.
Just Add Attitude
Just Add Attitude 