Happy Easter To All

Hello, I wish you a Happy Easter before my journey back to Yorkshire for fun and frolics with my six other siblings; who are all no doubt awaiting (rightly or wrongly) the Easter Bunny. Over the next week we shall celebrate four family birthdays among the Easter frenzy. We shall toast our glasses to Spring and New Life! I have a little Easter gift for you, in the form of pictures and two short videos. I want to say thank you for all the support you give me here at cowpatsanddaisychains.com. I hope to keep your valuable following by continuing to post interesting and creative insights into my life lived…
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Autumn at Butlerstown

Hello, Yesterday was a beautiful day and I felt my pictures would illustrate  the Irish Autumnal scene for you all better than words this time. Hope you enjoy looking through them. Next week, find out how I dealt with two dead pheasants... Bye for now.
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Wild with the Scent of Lavender

* L A V E N D E R *  Hello, as you can see I have been harvesting Lavender and I am wild with the scent of it! I was accompanied by the last of the thrifty bees who were sucking the remaining drops of scented nectar from the flowers, while I gathered basket-fulls of the ancient herb.     After about a week of air-drying beside the Aga I have now begun to collect the flower heads. Each head harbours a pungent aromatic smell… It is safe to say my home is engulfed in the stuff. [caption id="attachment_272" align="aligncenter" width="644"] By the end of my cutting I had filled…
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Homemade Elderflower and Gin Cocktails

Hello, today I would like to dedicate this post to Matthew and Iseult Leonard, who are the first of my friends to have tied the knot! The wedding was last weekend and what a fabulous weekend it was! There was so much love for these two lovely people and the ‘crack’ as they say in Ireland was most certainly had by all! It was a wonderful opportunity to meet people and make some new friends! Since I have come back home, I have been toasting to the newlyweds with our newly made Elderflower cordial. We have been experimenting for a few days and the consensus is that Gin and Elderflower…
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Midsummer Eve Gathering

[caption id="attachment_60" align="aligncenter" width="644"] Me getting my home made bunting out and tying my origami butterflies to the apple trees![/caption] Hello, I write this to you with an air of contented fatigue- a warm fuzzy sort of feeling. You see yesterday was quite a day. I hosted my first Midsummer Eve Gathering- A ritual I had little knowledge of until I read Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle. The novel was a sheer delight. So much so that coming to the end of the book was a rather sobering feeling for me. Yet I knew I had to hold on to Smith’s vivid descriptions of the Midsummer Eve rituals one…
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Happy Easter To All

Hello, I wish you a Happy Easter before my journey back to Yorkshire for fun and frolics with my six other siblings; who are all no doubt awaiting (rightly or wrongly) the Easter Bunny. Over the next week we shall celebrate four family birthdays among the Easter frenzy. We shall toast our glasses to Spring and New Life! I have a little Easter gift for you, in the form of pictures and two short videos. I want to say thank you for all the support you give me here at cowpatsanddaisychains.com. I hope to keep your valuable following by continuing to post interesting and creative insights into my life lived…
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Autumn at Butlerstown

Hello, Yesterday was a beautiful day and I felt my pictures would illustrate  the Irish Autumnal scene for you all better than words this time. Hope you enjoy looking through them. Next week, find out how I dealt with two dead pheasants... Bye for now.
Read More

Wild with the Scent of Lavender

* L A V E N D E R *  Hello, as you can see I have been harvesting Lavender and I am wild with the scent of it! I was accompanied by the last of the thrifty bees who were sucking the remaining drops of scented nectar from the flowers, while I gathered basket-fulls of the ancient herb.     After about a week of air-drying beside the Aga I have now begun to collect the flower heads. Each head harbours a pungent aromatic smell… It is safe to say my home is engulfed in the stuff. [caption id="attachment_272" align="aligncenter" width="644"] By the end of my cutting I had filled…
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Homemade Elderflower and Gin Cocktails

Hello, today I would like to dedicate this post to Matthew and Iseult Leonard, who are the first of my friends to have tied the knot! The wedding was last weekend and what a fabulous weekend it was! There was so much love for these two lovely people and the ‘crack’ as they say in Ireland was most certainly had by all! It was a wonderful opportunity to meet people and make some new friends! Since I have come back home, I have been toasting to the newlyweds with our newly made Elderflower cordial. We have been experimenting for a few days and the consensus is that Gin and Elderflower…
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Midsummer Eve Gathering

[caption id="attachment_60" align="aligncenter" width="644"] Me getting my home made bunting out and tying my origami butterflies to the apple trees![/caption] Hello, I write this to you with an air of contented fatigue- a warm fuzzy sort of feeling. You see yesterday was quite a day. I hosted my first Midsummer Eve Gathering- A ritual I had little knowledge of until I read Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle. The novel was a sheer delight. So much so that coming to the end of the book was a rather sobering feeling for me. Yet I knew I had to hold on to Smith’s vivid descriptions of the Midsummer Eve rituals one…
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Happy Easter To All

Hello, I wish you a Happy Easter before my journey back to Yorkshire for fun and frolics with my six other siblings; who are all no doubt awaiting (rightly or wrongly) the Easter Bunny. Over the next week we shall celebrate four family birthdays among the Easter frenzy. We shall toast our glasses to Spring and New Life! I have a little Easter gift for you, in the form of pictures and two short videos. I want to say thank you for all the support you give me here at cowpatsanddaisychains.com. I hope to keep your valuable following by continuing to post interesting and creative insights into my life lived…
Read More

Autumn at Butlerstown

Hello, Yesterday was a beautiful day and I felt my pictures would illustrate  the Irish Autumnal scene for you all better than words this time. Hope you enjoy looking through them. Next week, find out how I dealt with two dead pheasants... Bye for now.
Read More

Wild with the Scent of Lavender

* L A V E N D E R *  Hello, as you can see I have been harvesting Lavender and I am wild with the scent of it! I was accompanied by the last of the thrifty bees who were sucking the remaining drops of scented nectar from the flowers, while I gathered basket-fulls of the ancient herb.     After about a week of air-drying beside the Aga I have now begun to collect the flower heads. Each head harbours a pungent aromatic smell… It is safe to say my home is engulfed in the stuff. [caption id="attachment_272" align="aligncenter" width="644"] By the end of my cutting I had filled…
Read More

Homemade Elderflower and Gin Cocktails

Hello, today I would like to dedicate this post to Matthew and Iseult Leonard, who are the first of my friends to have tied the knot! The wedding was last weekend and what a fabulous weekend it was! There was so much love for these two lovely people and the ‘crack’ as they say in Ireland was most certainly had by all! It was a wonderful opportunity to meet people and make some new friends! Since I have come back home, I have been toasting to the newlyweds with our newly made Elderflower cordial. We have been experimenting for a few days and the consensus is that Gin and Elderflower…
Read More

Midsummer Eve Gathering

[caption id="attachment_60" align="aligncenter" width="644"] Me getting my home made bunting out and tying my origami butterflies to the apple trees![/caption] Hello, I write this to you with an air of contented fatigue- a warm fuzzy sort of feeling. You see yesterday was quite a day. I hosted my first Midsummer Eve Gathering- A ritual I had little knowledge of until I read Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle. The novel was a sheer delight. So much so that coming to the end of the book was a rather sobering feeling for me. Yet I knew I had to hold on to Smith’s vivid descriptions of the Midsummer Eve rituals one…
Read More

Happy Easter To All

Hello, I wish you a Happy Easter before my journey back to Yorkshire for fun and frolics with my six other siblings; who are all no doubt awaiting (rightly or wrongly) the Easter Bunny. Over the next week we shall celebrate four family birthdays among the Easter frenzy. We shall toast our glasses to Spring and New Life! I have a little Easter gift for you, in the form of pictures and two short videos. I want to say thank you for all the support you give me here at cowpatsanddaisychains.com. I hope to keep your valuable following by continuing to post interesting and creative insights into my life lived…
Read More

Autumn at Butlerstown

Hello, Yesterday was a beautiful day and I felt my pictures would illustrate  the Irish Autumnal scene for you all better than words this time. Hope you enjoy looking through them. Next week, find out how I dealt with two dead pheasants... Bye for now.
Read More

Wild with the Scent of Lavender

* L A V E N D E R *  Hello, as you can see I have been harvesting Lavender and I am wild with the scent of it! I was accompanied by the last of the thrifty bees who were sucking the remaining drops of scented nectar from the flowers, while I gathered basket-fulls of the ancient herb.     After about a week of air-drying beside the Aga I have now begun to collect the flower heads. Each head harbours a pungent aromatic smell… It is safe to say my home is engulfed in the stuff. [caption id="attachment_272" align="aligncenter" width="644"] By the end of my cutting I had filled…
Read More

Homemade Elderflower and Gin Cocktails

Hello, today I would like to dedicate this post to Matthew and Iseult Leonard, who are the first of my friends to have tied the knot! The wedding was last weekend and what a fabulous weekend it was! There was so much love for these two lovely people and the ‘crack’ as they say in Ireland was most certainly had by all! It was a wonderful opportunity to meet people and make some new friends! Since I have come back home, I have been toasting to the newlyweds with our newly made Elderflower cordial. We have been experimenting for a few days and the consensus is that Gin and Elderflower…
Read More

Midsummer Eve Gathering

[caption id="attachment_60" align="aligncenter" width="644"] Me getting my home made bunting out and tying my origami butterflies to the apple trees![/caption] Hello, I write this to you with an air of contented fatigue- a warm fuzzy sort of feeling. You see yesterday was quite a day. I hosted my first Midsummer Eve Gathering- A ritual I had little knowledge of until I read Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle. The novel was a sheer delight. So much so that coming to the end of the book was a rather sobering feeling for me. Yet I knew I had to hold on to Smith’s vivid descriptions of the Midsummer Eve rituals one…
Read More

Happy Easter To All

Hello, I wish you a Happy Easter before my journey back to Yorkshire for fun and frolics with my six other siblings; who are all no doubt awaiting (rightly or wrongly) the Easter Bunny. Over the next week we shall celebrate four family birthdays among the Easter frenzy. We shall toast our glasses to Spring and New Life! I have a little Easter gift for you, in the form of pictures and two short videos. I want to say thank you for all the support you give me here at cowpatsanddaisychains.com. I hope to keep your valuable following by continuing to post interesting and creative insights into my life lived…
Read More

Autumn at Butlerstown

Hello, Yesterday was a beautiful day and I felt my pictures would illustrate  the Irish Autumnal scene for you all better than words this time. Hope you enjoy looking through them. Next week, find out how I dealt with two dead pheasants... Bye for now.
Read More

Wild with the Scent of Lavender

* L A V E N D E R *  Hello, as you can see I have been harvesting Lavender and I am wild with the scent of it! I was accompanied by the last of the thrifty bees who were sucking the remaining drops of scented nectar from the flowers, while I gathered basket-fulls of the ancient herb.     After about a week of air-drying beside the Aga I have now begun to collect the flower heads. Each head harbours a pungent aromatic smell… It is safe to say my home is engulfed in the stuff. [caption id="attachment_272" align="aligncenter" width="644"] By the end of my cutting I had filled…
Read More

Homemade Elderflower and Gin Cocktails

Hello, today I would like to dedicate this post to Matthew and Iseult Leonard, who are the first of my friends to have tied the knot! The wedding was last weekend and what a fabulous weekend it was! There was so much love for these two lovely people and the ‘crack’ as they say in Ireland was most certainly had by all! It was a wonderful opportunity to meet people and make some new friends! Since I have come back home, I have been toasting to the newlyweds with our newly made Elderflower cordial. We have been experimenting for a few days and the consensus is that Gin and Elderflower…
Read More

Midsummer Eve Gathering

[caption id="attachment_60" align="aligncenter" width="644"] Me getting my home made bunting out and tying my origami butterflies to the apple trees![/caption] Hello, I write this to you with an air of contented fatigue- a warm fuzzy sort of feeling. You see yesterday was quite a day. I hosted my first Midsummer Eve Gathering- A ritual I had little knowledge of until I read Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle. The novel was a sheer delight. So much so that coming to the end of the book was a rather sobering feeling for me. Yet I knew I had to hold on to Smith’s vivid descriptions of the Midsummer Eve rituals one…
Read More