A sweet story!

Honey Honey!

On Sunday mornings, we go for a coffee in Ranelagh and on our way to the coffee shop we pick litter (Dublin City Council will supply you with litter pickers and bags, if you drop them a line on their customer service email). 

This morning was a lovely mild day and we walked up Chelmsford on opposite sides of the road as we picked. Ciaran had the dog on his side. 

Lots of people say "Thank you" as they pass by but this morning I had the loveliest encounter with a man who asked were we part of a group who does the litter picking. I explained how we do it on our way for coffee on a Sunday morning. He said thanks but then told me to hold on a minute that he was a bee-keeper and he was going to give me two jars of honey!!

Well I was so happy! What a lovely thing to do. He went in to his house not far from where we were talking and then came back with this gorgeous Dublin Mountain Honey.

Here's pics of the honey which is available in The Village Butcher in Ranelagh. 

Certainly a sweet ending to our Sunday litter pick!

Good Friday with A Few Good Men

Good Friday this year started with an early morning walk around Ranelagh where we picked litter up as we walked the dog. If everyone took a few minutes every few days to clean up outside their house, we could find ourselves with lovely clean streets when lockdown finished.  I got my litter picker in Dealz but I am sure they are available in other shops too.

Other than that we had a fairly quiet day. Ciaran did a bit of work on an artwork proposal for a government initiative to support artists and encourage creativitiy during the pandemic.  
We both also did Spanish classes online and I signed up for an additional language app to support my language learning.

We went for another walk about 6pm and wandered around Ranelagh (always sticking to no more than 2km from our house and also ensuring we socially distanced from other walkers as we passed them) and then when we came home Ciaran had a Zoom meetup with a gang of friends.

Zoom has been quite the life saver in these times. On Thursday, Ciaran was in Zoom meetings pretty much all day with clients and also staff.....later after work he then did a Zoom work out with trainer / physiotherapist Derek Ryan and a group of guys that he plays squash with.  Technology is great!

At one point about 4.30pm I was on a Teams online meeting with the Library Finance Team and Ciaran was in one of his meetings and to be honest it just felt like the strangest thing ever. It's like we have advanced ourselves so rapidly in the last few weeks. I guess it is one of the good things that has come out of the pandemic.

And then it was on to our evening.  I cooked the nicest steaks with really great hasselback potatoes to go with them. I wish I took a picture as they were so good!

After flicking around Netflix and regular TV we finally settled on a film we could both watch. It was an oldie but a goodie - A Few Good Men! 

I put the below up on my Facebook and my twin sister commented from the States that she wished she could be there to watch it. Lol!