parks and friends

Some images of our favourite people... in some of our favourite places:

Malachy in the People's Park in Dun Laoghaire

Kicking off last summer with movies in the park... in the company of our new friends Jon, Janel, Lennan and Finn :)

The absolutely fabulous Niamh and Audreyyyy!... On a rare but oh-so-delightful ladies lunch date on a rainy Saturday afternoon. Followed by a visit to a fortune teller. Say no more!

It's been a while since we've posted a pic of Bob and Marley. Yes, they are STILL going strong. And, yes... their family seems to have expanded somewhat ;)

Lorcan in Blackrock park, also known to us as "frisbee park" since the day Daddy accidentally threw our rubber frisbee onto the roof of the bandstand and couldn't get it down. That was two years ago. The frisbee is still there.

Swans in Blackrock park....

.... and their fluffy babies (pics taken June 2009).

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Our friend Matthew in the People's Park... showing off his newly cut second tooth... which is fully grown now, just like Liam's. Big boys now!

Lorcan on the day he got into some pretty serious mud-mischief while Mummy and Daddy were chatting with Jon and Janel... ooops!

Don't trust this Angel face... Lennan was in on it too!!

portobello and friends

Our sweet friends Niamh and Peter introduced us to Vincenza, Giovanni and Anna Livia at the Soul Festival last May (let's just pretend that 10 months haven't gone by since I intended to post these photos, shall we?). We all hit it off rather wonderfully and soon met up with the whole gang again for a gorgeous day in their home and neighbourhood...

These are great people!

Talk about hospitality...! Giovanni's Italian mamma made us the most delicious homemade Italian meal, which we all devoured and mouth-wateringly recall to this day...!



The kids (as always) polished off their food faster than the speed of light... so in order to allow the grown-ups some leisurely coffee and dessert time, we resorted to some on-screen Walt Disney, of course.


It was a beautiful, sunny early summer afternoon, so we all headed out to enjoy it. The guys took us up the canal to Dartmouth square, where we hung out till the sun started setting. It was a pretty heavenly day all round :)

We broke out the prosecco and Delphine came and joined us too.

Niamh bravely let Liam take some snaps with her camera...

... and they both enjoyed checking out the results :D

Oh being able to roll on dry fresh-smelling grass...!

We have to do this more often!