Little Things That Make Me Happy

Visited The National Botanic Gardens with our friends (yes, the ones who visited us in Japan) and their family friends (a French couple...

Picked elderflower to make elderflower cordial. The house is full of lovely elderflower scent now. Elderflower (日本語では ニワトコ と言うようだ）で ...

Tomorrow is Bloomsday . I forgot about it until we walked to Sandycove, where James Joyce's Ulysses is partly based in. サンディコー...

Encountered another Japanese spitz today near our local Tesco. 8-year-old girl Shi Shi! Japanese spitz is definitely more popular her...

A miracle happened and the sunny weather lasted more than a week :-)) We had a BBQ 4 times! 奇跡が起こり1週間以上も晴天が続いている。 今やらないと2度とできないかもしれない...

Mid-summer's day is coming soon, so days are getting longer. We can have a lovely walk in the sunshine even after dinner these da...

The weather got better as time went on! On Sunday we invited my husband's sister and her husband for a barbecue. They were first ...