Here's some more photos from my walk yesterday...!
All taken with Mam's 10MP digital camera! No editing! I can't wait for my own DSLR, I'm still saving up!
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Sunday, 12 August 2012
Saturday, 11 August 2012
The Season Is Basically Over, But Summer Has Just Arrived!
Yesterday was a day for t-shirts, shorts and sandals!
The sun has been shinning, while the temperature has been rising. Summer has finally arrived!
After we quickly cleaned the dinning room & the bedrooms, we watched some of the Irish boxers in the Olympics (Well Done Lads!!! Win or lose, you make us proud!), while eating lunch.
The heat had really started to get to me at that stage, so I rushed into my room, shaved my legs (electric shavers are so handy!) & pulled on a pair of shorts. My sister, brother & I then when for a walk over the road & back, enjoying the gorgeous weather. It was great to get out for a stroll!
Later, my family & I had dinner outside, just like we do every summer. However, this was the first time we could actually do it this year. It just goes to show how crappy the weather has been this year. Hopefully, we'll have a good few more days like this before school starts! It felt so good to sit in the heat of the sun. :)
The sun has been shinning, while the temperature has been rising. Summer has finally arrived!
After we quickly cleaned the dinning room & the bedrooms, we watched some of the Irish boxers in the Olympics (Well Done Lads!!! Win or lose, you make us proud!), while eating lunch.
The heat had really started to get to me at that stage, so I rushed into my room, shaved my legs (electric shavers are so handy!) & pulled on a pair of shorts. My sister, brother & I then when for a walk over the road & back, enjoying the gorgeous weather. It was great to get out for a stroll!
Later, my family & I had dinner outside, just like we do every summer. However, this was the first time we could actually do it this year. It just goes to show how crappy the weather has been this year. Hopefully, we'll have a good few more days like this before school starts! It felt so good to sit in the heat of the sun. :)
Some photos I took using Mam's digital camera during our walk...
I have a ton more photos, but they won't load for some reason! I had actually typed this whole blog out last night & fell asleep as the photos loaded, but none of them did! I only managed to get the two above up this morning. The rest still won't load! I'll try again later...
Friday, 15 June 2012
The Guests of the B&B
As you know by now I live in a Bed and Breakfast. A B&B. So it's not unusual to have random strangers coming in and out of our house everyday.
Some people are a bit iffy, expecting that we're a hotel or something. We're not. We're a family welcoming strangers into our home. They don't see that and expect everything a four star hotel has for a fraction of the price! We've four stars - heck, the inspector said we deserve five, but our rooms needed to be larger - but we do not work the same way as a hotel. Similar, but not the same.
However, that's only a small number of the people that stay here. Majority of the people that stay in our home seem to feel that they can't say thank you enough. They chat to us. They joke with us. They are welcomed home! Sometimes people even return years later. It's lovely! It puts a smile on my face to think we make people feel welcome enough that they want to tell their friends. They want to come back.
I love talking to these guests. You can meet some interesting and lovely souls. Today, for example, I was serving breakfast to a trio (a man with his wife and brother - in - law) from South Africa. The fact that they were from South Africa alone was spactacular to me - it's rare that we get anyone from there or many of the countries in the Southern Hemisphere. Then, I had mentioned I was saving up for a Nikon D3100 (I'm taking donations readers! :P), when taking a photo of the three of them with a professional camera belonging to the husband. We ended up chatting for a good while. Turned out he was a photographer. So, when leaving, they handed me €15 towards my camera savings andthe husband will be sending my parents emails with info and links to the best photography shops that he knows of in Ireland! Like, wow!!!!
They didn't need to do that at all and this is why I love the B&B -though I may often may say I don't like it at all. You meet some amazingly cool people. It's crap when they leave. Seriously! But the connection has been made and, maybe, we'll meet again some day if they return.
I really hope the South Africans return some time in the years to come... :)
Some people are a bit iffy, expecting that we're a hotel or something. We're not. We're a family welcoming strangers into our home. They don't see that and expect everything a four star hotel has for a fraction of the price! We've four stars - heck, the inspector said we deserve five, but our rooms needed to be larger - but we do not work the same way as a hotel. Similar, but not the same.
However, that's only a small number of the people that stay here. Majority of the people that stay in our home seem to feel that they can't say thank you enough. They chat to us. They joke with us. They are welcomed home! Sometimes people even return years later. It's lovely! It puts a smile on my face to think we make people feel welcome enough that they want to tell their friends. They want to come back.
I love talking to these guests. You can meet some interesting and lovely souls. Today, for example, I was serving breakfast to a trio (a man with his wife and brother - in - law) from South Africa. The fact that they were from South Africa alone was spactacular to me - it's rare that we get anyone from there or many of the countries in the Southern Hemisphere. Then, I had mentioned I was saving up for a Nikon D3100 (I'm taking donations readers! :P), when taking a photo of the three of them with a professional camera belonging to the husband. We ended up chatting for a good while. Turned out he was a photographer. So, when leaving, they handed me €15 towards my camera savings andthe husband will be sending my parents emails with info and links to the best photography shops that he knows of in Ireland! Like, wow!!!!
They didn't need to do that at all and this is why I love the B&B -though I may often may say I don't like it at all. You meet some amazingly cool people. It's crap when they leave. Seriously! But the connection has been made and, maybe, we'll meet again some day if they return.
I really hope the South Africans return some time in the years to come... :)
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