A little baking........

Recipe for Brownies
150grs.(5ozs.)self-raising flour
75grms.(3ozs)butter
150grms.(5ozs)light brown sugar
50grms.(2ozs)plain chocolate
2 eggs
2 tablespoons milk
few drops of vanilla essence
Topping
124grms(4ozs)plain chocolate
25grms(1ozs)margarine
Preheat oven to 325f/170c
Melt butter and chocolate in a bowl over a bowl of hot water
mix well beat in sugar and eggs
stir in remaining ingredients
transfer to greased and lined tin
Bake for 20mins approx.
Topping
Melt chocolate and margarine stir well
when slightly cooled spread over chocolate cake leave to set
cut into squares and enjoy!

Kinsale

yesterday was so nice we decided to take a spin to kinsale which is about 20mins drive from cork city.there were plenty of tourists around,boats bobbing on the water and we even spotted a seal looking for fish from the local fishermen!kinsale town really "pushes the boat out"(pardon the pun)when it comes to flowers and colourful shopfronts!
hope you enjoy the photos.(you can click on photos to enlarge)!

Kinsale

yesterday was so nice we decided to take a spin to kinsale which is about 20mins from cork city.there were plenty of tourists about,boats bobbing about on the water,and we even spotted a seal looking for fish from the local fishermen!
kinsale really"pushes the boat out"(pardon the pun)with flowers and the colours of their shopfronts!
hope you enjoy the photos!

matching containers with plants from lidls 6 in each.

a favourite of mine monkshood tall blue flowers year after year!

a lovely cloudless blue sky over us recently!

perseverance pays off

After a bit of reading on blogger.com i have at least managed to upload a few photos! i feel a photo frenzy coming on!these are looking good in my garden at the moment (scroll down)leading to me standing at the kitchen window gazing out in admiration!pity its a bit windy at the moment as the petals on the stargazer are being blown skyward!
we are in the process of removing the hedge around the back garden . it once stood over 8ft tall but now it is competing with ivy and thorny roses growing through it.there is an awful lot more light coming through now that some of it has been removed but its going to be a long hard slog!

summer garden

greetings from a novice blogger! i have just decided to join the blogging community! i have spent far too many hours reading other peoples very interesting blogs on gardening,travel,family and hobbies of all kinds so now i am taking the plunge myself. hopefully i will be able to upload some photos to break up the text eventually and add some colour but for now getting this far is an achievement in itself so here goes.