Easter eggstravaganza(!)

Finding Easter eggs

On Easter Saturday (because we’d arranged it specially with the Easter Bunny) we spent the morning hunting for chocolate eggs in the garden.

It was warm a couple of weeks ago, well spring had returned and it was cold again, so we wrapped up and followed signs outside that helped us find the eggs – the Easter Bunny was helpful.
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Smelly kitty

One cat wondering why the other cat smells so bad

We live amongst farmland, with sheep and cows in the fields near our house. Our pure white cat, Snowdrop, loves to venture across the fields and into the neighbouring barns.

Today, we were wondering why the smell of slurry was so strong.
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Pulling funny faces

Pulling funny faces

I’ve been practising pulling faces this past week. It’s amazing what you can do with your tongue too – I never realised it was so much fun!

And the more I exercise, the more I can do.

Daddy keeps pointing the camera at me and I can’t help but show off a little now when he does…
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Our Poppy

Poppy

Our lovely wee dog Poppy died last night. She was two. Here’s some pictures from her short life.

She’ll be missed by us all as she was one of us – a companion, a protector and a friend.

We don’t know what it was that took her away from us.
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Sunny times

Me in the sunshine

The weather has been lovely recently and it’s been feeling like spring. Far too warm, far too early, but it doesn’t stop everyone from getting out into the sunshine and enjoying themselves – just too early to be busy in the garden!
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Hello kitty

Snowdrop asleep in some balloons

Snowdrop is one of our cats. She’s deaf and completely white with one green eye and one blue eye. She’s a mouse catcher extraordinaire!

Kate, my sister, put a pink ribbon on Snowdrop when she was asleep one time, which made her look just like Hello Kitty – one of Kate’s favourites!
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Rivers of the World

Mask of Old Father Thames

I went along with mum and dad to the final instalment of a project my mum had been working on.

She was the resident artist with Royal and Prior Comprehensive School for the Rivers of the World project.

It was a spectacular end, with the children setting fire to ‘Father Thames’, a figure that they’d made out of willow, straw and clay.
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Annual get together

Me on mum's shoulder

My mum’s family meet up every year at a house near Malin Head.

There’s lots more of them than in daddy’s family, so it was exciting to see many of them for the first time.

I also met Aileen, who is a triathlete with the Irish Olympic team and on mum’s granny’s side of the family!
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day

Throwing things for Poppy

We went for a lovely walk today – to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, seeing our first butterfly and bumble bee of the spring (both today), the sun shining, and anything else positive that you can think of!

The walk was at Lagg and Poppy had great fun chasing anything and everything, including flocks of birds, which she never had a hope of catching – she has determination if nothing else!
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Poppy and Alex

Alex pointing

Alex was at the house today. I’m looking forward to playing with him when I’m a bit older.

This is a video of Poppy playing with Alex, my cousin, and daddy. You can see just how gentle she is with Alex.
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