Monthly Archives: June 2010

The Glen

By Alice | Published: June 23, 2010

This is ‘The Glen’, it’s a chasm in Knocknarea mountain with high rock walls and shaded by trees. It’s quite hard to find, we had exact directions from our aunt but even then we weren’t quite sure we were going down the right path until finally we reached the end. We had tried to go [...]

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The cottage

By Alice | Published: June 22, 2010

Like my flower arrangement? I picked it from things growing around the cottage. We love the cottage, and it’s so nice to have a wood burning stove in the evenings, definitely something I’d like in my own house.

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Sligo, Ireland

By Alice | Published: June 22, 2010

I’m back! This is where I was :) We had such amazing hot sunny weather, last time I was in Ireland it was later in the year and colder, this time we were completely baked. I went with Simon and my sister to stay in a lovely little stone cottage that belongs to my aunts. [...]

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best of the rest

By Alice | Published: June 12, 2010

I noticed I had 84GB of photos on my hard drive (ouch!) so I had a good old spring clean. I currently don’t take pictures in Raw purely because of the storage issue even though I should and want to. Now I have had a tidy I might give Raw a go and I’ll just [...]

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Chocolate Almond Cake

By Alice | Published: June 10, 2010

I made Elizabeth David‚Äôs Chocolate Almond Cake again, this time for my mother’s birthday celebration. It is such a good cake anyway but I love it because it so happens to be gluten free so I can make it for my family. It is made with almonds rather than flour so it has that lovely [...]

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