Le Grand Flump

A hectic week, with work and leaks and mushrooms growing in the Cottage and more work and dehumidifiers and decorating a skeleton and babysitting and a little cat going crazy from the dehumidifiers and plumbers (though she was ok with the mushrooms) and much more work.

And now the dehumidifier has no more moisture to catch. Grateful :-)

And the Dublin Pride Parade 2011 went beautifully. 25k people marching, 100k people lining the streets. Oodles of photos to download but for now, this one I found online captures the vibe :-)

Needless to say, this is a morning of flumping :-)

Ending on a high note

A lovely weekend, beautifully topped off with Gomez in d'Olympia.


Loved 'em!

Savour

The Botanic Gardens, where two ladies endlessly pause to appreciate the moment.

Redefining

Here is the time for telling. Here is its home.
Speak and make known: More and more
the things we could experience
are lost to us, banished by our failure
to imagine them.
Old definitions, which once
set limits to our living,
break apart like dried crusts
--Rilke

Have a lovely weekend, all X

Late home?

There are days where clearly, it matters.

Photo moment

Walking home one evening last week, there was a sea of red in St Patrick's Park...

Wacky :-)

Family Day

My big bit of volunteering this year was for Family Day - a free family festival organised by the very lovely charity One Family, and held in Dublin's Iveagh Gardens in May.

Shortly after 8am on the morning of the festival, this photo was snapped in the quiet rainy morning...

We readied the site through steady rain. And lo, when we were all set up, the sky brightened, and two thousand people came out to enjoy the afternoon.

My perspective on the day was limited but colourful (you can click to enlarge):

Thanks to all those who supported, attended and contributed to the day. At one point during the Clean Up, I thought we'd take down the Arts & Crafts marquee to reveal one large glitter-grass square in the Iveagh Gardens. But it all worked out just beautifully!

Onwards and upwards

I pass this sign each day on my way to work.

I have never seen railings more covered with fingerprints :-)

Swimming with the angels

Paper angel fishies amongst the greeting cards :-)

All a flutter

Lovely weekend: lazy breakfasts with crosaires, theatre (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), family, yoga, books (reading, buying and gazing upon in the Chester Beatty Library), gardening, flumping and to finish up: I began learning how to fold origami butterflies :-)

Good fun.