Adam Ball

We took a week home in Ireland over Easter and had a great time. Thanks to Mimi & Grandad, Bibi & Billy and of course Naomi and Neil for looking after us on our travels. The kids really enjoyed spending time with Cian and Katie, Paul and Charlie and Thomas. We visited Trim castle and froze the arse off everyone but I enjoyed seeing the old place fixed up and accessible now. It used to be a crumbling old ruin that smelled of wee so anything is an improvement. Tour guide kept referring to it as a “Killing Machine”, which while historically accurate probably didn’t help Sophie get over her disappointment at finding that there were no princesses there! Dublin Zoo was absolutely brilliant too. It was my first time seeing the new African plains extension and it is astonishing to find a small herd of rhinos wandering around what used to be a corner of the president’s back garden!

Lots more pics in the gallery.

Helen’s been badgering me all week to upload some photos! Here are some from the Christening last weekend.

More snow here at the weekend. Lauren doesn’t look too happy here at all, but she certainly enjoyed the first few minutes of sledging. The cold was starting to get to her after about 20 mins though. Sophie was determined to create the biggest snowman in the park, and wouldn’t co-operate with anything else until it was finished. Definitely knows what she wants! Sophie took another nice picture of me and Lauren too – she gets very snap happy with a camera in her hands! More snow falling tonight as well so there will be great excitement and anticipation of more school free days to come.

Including one taken by Sophie!