Myself and the kidlets had the nicest day today.
We hauled ourselves out of bed and got into town by 12.30 for Ciara's brother Chris Judge's book launch in Temple Bar.
The talented illustrator has published a colourful and warming tale of his Beast.
You can read more about The Beast on Chris's blog.
And you can buy the delightful book here.
Olivia and her friend (who is Chris's nephew) sat and deconstructed the book at length. Ciara will have great photos of the kids with the giant foam Beast, and one of her oldest son wearing it.
'You can't get out til you dance,' someone quipped, to general laughter. There was a pause.
'Really?' came the uncertain voice from within.
Aw!
After ricecrispie buns and some happy readings of the story, we wandered through a cold Temple Bar, made warmer by the Trad Festival that's on this weekend, a stage and buskers and all the market food stalls selling various tempting things. I met my friend Laura, who brought me to the Frames at Christmas, but you don't know that because I never wrote the blogpost. She works for Airfield House and we went over to see their mobile petting farm, which included beautiful chickens and goats and wee fuzzy baby calves and a lifesize plastic cow that you can milk! (See photos in link). Bodhi had a practice and announced that he'd emptied the whole cow :)
Laura came and gave Olivia some beautifully soft unspun wool and crouched on hte cobbles (approriately on Cow's Lane) and showed her how to make a wool angel.
I met an old friend, who I was glad to see.
And I bumped into Darragh Doyle, who is ubiquitous (or omnipresent, or all-knowing, or all three of the above) and gave us the Best Tip Ever. Murphy's Icecream were giving away Free Icecreams to anyone who'd dance a jig. I thought Olivia wouldbe having none of that, but she performed there and then on the street (she's very proud of her jig!) so we hot footed it over there and the incredibly sweet and friendly Murphy's person loaded the kids up with ... free icecream. Dark chocoalte for Olivia, Raspberry Sorbet for Bodhi. They're so good there. A shining light. I love them.
Dublin was great today, just like you'd expect it to be if you weren't from there. I'm so glad we went in, I resolve to do it more. The only downside was that a few hours of parking cost ten quid, but what can you do.
When we got home, Bodhi was conked in the car, and Olivia rang her dad in work and read him the whole story over the phone. And told him all about her ice cream triumph, she was so proud :)
A good day, all in all.
We hauled ourselves out of bed and got into town by 12.30 for Ciara's brother Chris Judge's book launch in Temple Bar.
The talented illustrator has published a colourful and warming tale of his Beast.
You can read more about The Beast on Chris's blog.
And you can buy the delightful book here.
Olivia and her friend (who is Chris's nephew) sat and deconstructed the book at length. Ciara will have great photos of the kids with the giant foam Beast, and one of her oldest son wearing it.
'You can't get out til you dance,' someone quipped, to general laughter. There was a pause.
'Really?' came the uncertain voice from within.
Aw!
After ricecrispie buns and some happy readings of the story, we wandered through a cold Temple Bar, made warmer by the Trad Festival that's on this weekend, a stage and buskers and all the market food stalls selling various tempting things. I met my friend Laura, who brought me to the Frames at Christmas, but you don't know that because I never wrote the blogpost. She works for Airfield House and we went over to see their mobile petting farm, which included beautiful chickens and goats and wee fuzzy baby calves and a lifesize plastic cow that you can milk! (See photos in link). Bodhi had a practice and announced that he'd emptied the whole cow :)
Laura came and gave Olivia some beautifully soft unspun wool and crouched on hte cobbles (approriately on Cow's Lane) and showed her how to make a wool angel.
I met an old friend, who I was glad to see.
And I bumped into Darragh Doyle, who is ubiquitous (or omnipresent, or all-knowing, or all three of the above) and gave us the Best Tip Ever. Murphy's Icecream were giving away Free Icecreams to anyone who'd dance a jig. I thought Olivia wouldbe having none of that, but she performed there and then on the street (she's very proud of her jig!) so we hot footed it over there and the incredibly sweet and friendly Murphy's person loaded the kids up with ... free icecream. Dark chocoalte for Olivia, Raspberry Sorbet for Bodhi. They're so good there. A shining light. I love them.
Dublin was great today, just like you'd expect it to be if you weren't from there. I'm so glad we went in, I resolve to do it more. The only downside was that a few hours of parking cost ten quid, but what can you do.
When we got home, Bodhi was conked in the car, and Olivia rang her dad in work and read him the whole story over the phone. And told him all about her ice cream triumph, she was so proud :)
A good day, all in all.
4 comments:
That sounds like a wonderful day. I've never been to Dublin but I've always wanted to visit. One day we must do the full Ireland thing.
What a fantastic day! So glad you had such a great time with the kids. :-)
I'm listening to a Maeve Binchy (sp?) book on tape and loving the accent, thinking of you as it's set in Dublin.
sounds like a perfect sunday..
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