Santa's Little Helper ...

Erin is 8 today ....

Our little Princess Erin is 8 today, and lucky for her that her birthday falls on a holy day here in Ireland because the schools are always closed on her birthday. She gots loads of stuff to keep her happy but she is already counting the sleeps until Christmas Day.

Happy Birthday Erin xxx

A wet old school run

We have been under a deluge lately, more rain than the average Monsoon, which is usually just an average Irish day. So as I embarked on my daily school run with Erin I crossed the bridge over the river only to find my way was blocked with a foot of water that had engulfed the road and the local pub and petrol station, I managed to just get through it without damaging the car but stopped to take some pictures of the watery wonder world.

Click on the images to see a larger view

Lovely day today but we have 2 horrendous wet forecasts for this Saturday and Sunday so might need a boat for the school run on Monday !

Keithers

Our son Keith is 20 years old today, happy birthday Keithers from your Ma and Da and sisters

On reflection though it means I must be getting older too, has anyone got a spare walking stick for a miserable old Dad lol




posted from Timmys iPhone

Halloween Hike

Erin went on a Halloween Hike with her school friends recently, they walked around the country roads around her school and had a great time scaring the locals (and a few sheep)…

Erin is bottom left as the pink cat

Oscar

Oscar is nearly a year old and here is a photo I took of him today :-)

Whats Happening ...

There is not much new or strange happening here in our part of Ireland, Erin is back to school but we moved her from her old school to a new school as it used to take us nearly 45 minutes to get across the town in our morning rush hour. We have a population of only about 10000 but there is only 1 bridge across the river and it becomes a bottleneck at school start and finish times but now with her new school its just a 10 minute drive to a little village down empty back roads with no traffic, bliss !!! Aisling is still doing her government training scheme which is soon to be upgraded to a beauticians course so she will be going to college soon. Me and Angela are still pottering around taking whatever work comes our way which is few and far between in todays climate but we are managing. Keith is still young and determined to enjoy his youth by going into a socialising overdrive, out with his mates and stuff and going to music concerts and festivals. I am trying to get jobs at home done too, I belt sanded our wooden sitting room floor and revarnished it with a dark oak Diamond Glaze finish, Angela was going spare for a week or two because of the dust so she was very glad when that job was finished. My brother Ken got a new apartment just around the corner from us so we all have been giving him a hand doing jobs, I installed his satellite tv dish and setup his broadband connection this morning so he is delighted.

Thats about it really .......

Hello

Tis timmy and I apologise now for my absence. I just thought you guys would love to see a few pictures of Aislings Debs Ball so here goes

The whole Norris gang

The Siblings

Aisling and her Uncle Ken (aka Timmys brother)

Aisling outside her old high school

Aisling and her boyfriend Dean

There's loads more pictures at http://picasaweb.google.com/timmygadget/AislingsDebsBall#

Aislings Debs Ball

Today was Aisling's Debs Ball at the Red Cow Hotel in Dublin, before they headed off on the bus we got champagne and professional photographs done at the school and then everyone traditionally as always visits the pubs in our local square before heading off to the ball.

Here are the photographs online for all to view

http://picasaweb.google.com/timmygadget/AislingsDebsBall#

Back again

Hi everyone, it's been a while since I was on here, other things seem to take up my time and I get sidetracked, but at last I can tell you what's going on with the Norris-Irish clan.

As usual our summer has been a washout, we should all be 7ft tall here in Ireland with all this water. Aisling is all ready for her debs ball at the end of the month, my god its more stress than a wedding ha ha. We will take lots of pics and post them for you all to see. Tim, myself and Erin were in England for a week and got to see Andrew, Vicky and the boys, and Chris and Rob, everyone was in great form, its great to catch up with family you don't see too often. When we were in Yorkshire we went to visit Tim's friend Kevin's family, as you know Tim posted that Kevin died just too soon, so we paid our respects to his dad and sister. It was a tough day but we were so glad we did it, it's really good to remember the good times and laugh at the stuff you used to get up to, we were given some very dodgy photos of Tim in his youth, but i will let him decide if you are allowed to see them ha ha. OK that's it for now I won't leave it so long next time SLAN LEAT Bye for now. Ang