Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts

Thursday, 24 May 2012

Summer is here

So yesterday and today have been amazing days. It gotup to 23 degrees yesterday and Karl and I got some ice-cream (snickers - YUM!) and went for a morantic stroll on the beach. 

The sun sets at around 10pm here, so we really enjoyed the long hot day. Today, for lunch, Orna and I went to Belfast castle for our lunch (salad!) and it is 21 degrees. Now, I know that 21 degrees means nothing to you, but for Northern Ireland its BOILING. Everyone is out in tank tops and flip-flops etc, and it does feel HOT!


Its supposed to be sunny and HOT for the rest of the week and weekend. I am kicking off my weekend tonight with a braai at Jimmy & Fionnuala's. Let the SUNtimes roll :D

Tuesday, 27 March 2012

my first lamb...

Had a busy day today. Got up and went to gym and then got home and went to sit in the sun with a slice of buttery toast and a cup of sweet tea. It was 17 degrees again today, and I had to take advantage of the weather, so Moira and i took an 8km walk called the bluebell walk. Its called that because all of the fields are full of bluebells. THey should only bloom in the next couple of weeks, but some of them are already out.

Uncle Jim up the road is a sheep farmer, and he said today that one of the lambs are half dead. Sometimes sheep have 2 or 3 lambs, but only have enough milk for 1 or 2 of them. SO we have to hand rear the ones that are left out, these are usually the smallest ones. 
Moira and I got the braai going, just to take advantage of the good weather. We made chicken kebabs, lamb, steak and pork sausages and burgers. 
Just as I was finishing my dinner, Uncle Jim came up the road with the wee lamb that was tossed aside by its mother, and I had the privilege of feeding it.





Everything was going swimmingly, until it wee'd on me. I want to name it so badly, but Uncle Jim says that it might not last, so I don't want to jinx it... Will keep you updated.