About me……I’m Margaret, born in Limerick way back when, and then on my sixteenth birthday the family moved to Dublin.
That was an interesting experience for a 16 year old – new school, new friends, etc. I survived it and went on to spend most of my life working for various companies in Dublin city. I became the total city girl – theatre, cinema, clubs, rugby, races, etc. etc.
Having worked for others for so many years, during the last recession in the ’80’s I started my own business, which ran quite well (I was never going to be a millionaire at it, but I made a decent living) up to the late 1990’s.
Then a man walked into my life (now Farmer Alfie) and we set up a business in Dublin which we ran for a number of years.
In 2003 we decided to move out of the city and started the search for a new place to live, with no exact idea of a location we started the search. We’ve ended up here in North Tipperary and I often say ‘we should have moved years earlier’. We have had so much fun and enjoyment in our new neighbourhood, and as I thoroughly enjoyed reading ‘A Year in Provence’ by Peter Mayle all those years ago, I thought it was time I started to log (blog) our life here in the country, and the conversion of a city girl to a country girl. I’ve only recently realised that John Thaw (the thinking woman’s sex symbol!) played the part of Peter Mayle in the movie of the book…. will have to get that out and watch.
I used to be a huge Morse fan, there was nothing nicer than pizza, glass of wine and Morse on TV!
We both thoroughly enjoy our food…. grow our own pigs, have grown goat and Bronze Turkeys and try to grow most of our own vegetables. So this blog will really be about food, gardening, life in the country, photography and anything else that happens to spring to mind or exercise the brain!
I hope you will enjoy reading of some of our adventures and mis-adventures. If you enjoy the read, please pass on the word!
HI MARGARET-IT IS YOUR OLD FRIEND FROM ELF-DO YOU REMEMBER THE DAY WE MET-I WAS WORKING IN ELF AND YOUR TRAIN WAS LATE COMING FROM MALAHIDE AND WE WERE ALL WONDERING WERE THIS NEW GIRL WAS AND SHE FINALLY ARRIVED AND SO STARTED OUR FRIENDSHIP-WHAT YEAR WAS THAT HA HA – THEY WERE THE GOOD DAYS AT ELF. HOPE YOUR ENJOYING THE GOOD LIFE WITH FARMER ALFIE,LIFE GOOD HERE IN TEMPLEOGUE WITH KEVIN AND KATHARINE AND BETWEEN THE TWO OF US – YOU AND ME – OUR NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS IS TO MEET UP FOR COFFEE, TILL THEN HAPPY NEW YEAR HELENA
Hey Helena,
Great to hear from you… and to know you are reading blog! Hope to organise a day off to go socialise in Dublin sometime in the next few weeks… will get in touch with sorted!
Margaret
By the way… cannot believe you remember that my train was delayed on first day…. either I’m having selective memory loss or a senior moment!
Hi There,
I have just over an hour ready your blog, great stuff. I just started my own one about 10 days ago. 2010 for me is taking up growing fruit & veg for our restaurant in Howth called Aqua.
Hi Dave,
Good luck with your blog (will go read now) and with growing your own fruit and veg! All these things can take up so much time! I have to find time over the next day or two to go through seed catalogues and start sowing!
Margaret