Home for the Holidays... and the sunshine!

There's no place like home!

It was fabulous to catch up with you all in Melbourne... we had a ball being back home in the beautiful sun, with all our friends and family...
it was very busy but very bliss...

Now... we have returned to Dublin, have survived the 'Big Freeze' and are once more well-ensconced into our daily routines and thankfully are able to appreciate some warmer weather (4-8 degrees or so) which makes a HUGE difference from the recent freeze. (the photos on the link above are from Co. Mayo in the north west of Ireland... colder than dublin's freeze no doubt, but the pics are good. bbrrrr)

And it seems as though it is time, before it slips away again, to re-visit our trip to Melbourne and upload some photos.

The Ford family Christmas picnic : Fi, Mel, Louise and Ivan












Staying with Fi and Stuart at their new house, with easy access to the beach!!

BBQ on the banks of the Yarra, on the most glorious sunny perfect day of all! with all our friends and family! what could be better?
L-R Friends and family

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Christmas
Christmas Eve dinner with the Fords was great and delicious, but sadly the photos are really shit. really really shit. They didn't work out well at all. :( Some sort of ligting problem.

So, moving right along...
Christmas day breakfast at Fi and Stuart's house on that lovely cool morning

Christmas day lunch with the Williamses at Ivan's Parent's house

Having a cuppa after lunch, Elena's Grandmother Sylvia
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Our lovely tall nieces: Riona and Sian

Post-Christmas

Catching up with friends over dinner in Docklands.

Thanks to Chooka, the photos of this night are appallingly bad, but this one is sorta cute? maybe? anyone?

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Lunch in the Sun with Karen, Rob, Eleanor, Gill and Peter on a very hot day

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With Elena's mum and grandmother Sylvia

New Years eve dinner at Juan and Mel's

With Mel, Juan, Fi, Stuart, Elena, Rachel and Kirrily

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Thanks all! we had a ball!

Bye for now but not for long....

there's no place like home, here's no place like home .....