Seafood Chowder

I read a few other blogs and find it interesting to see what people are making.
I made Seafood Chowder for the first time on Monday.
I Googled the recipe and used elements of a few different recipes.
Serves two

  I used .200kg of Seafood Mix I purchased at Beshoffs West Pier Howth.
Half a carton of cooking cream
A slosh of white wine
A carrot diced
Two potatoes diced, the potato thickened it so I didn't use any flour.
An onion diced
A knorr fish stock pot.
Knob of butter
some water
I fried the veg in butter in a large pot
Then added wine and let it reduce.
Add water and Stock
Add fish , it does not take long to cook
You want it to stay intact not broken up.
The carrot made it an orange color.

My Grandson's Artwork

It is funny but when I started this blog I thought a lot of posts would be about my grandson.
I guess everyone thinks theirs are the best. I am always doing competitions so of course I encourage  him do enter some too. He loves to color in. I'd say he is in his block faze as he loves to use all the colors in the pack. In these he has used his crayons.

Local Paper

Local Free Paper

This one is from his abstract  faze when he was four. It is marker on whiteboard.

A day out in Bray on the cliff walk.

On Sunday it was such a nice day we headed for Bray. We ended up walking along the cliff walk a small part of the way.

Stones on the Beach

The Bray Head Hotel

Beware of Falling Rocks

Dart

Lichen

Moss

Toll House

Damaged gabions.

Bray

New plants and old.

I bought four plants in Woodies Liffey valley Lilly of the valley Wallflowers and Alcea Chater's double.

I got all four plants for €8 in the clearance section in the back. I was watching an old episode of Gardeners world the other night and was inspired to go for a color theme of yellow.For once I was not my usual procrastinating  self  I potted them as soon as I got home. I had peas in the pot last year, so I just popped them into that compost.

I am happy with the Daffodils in the garden this year.
I planted them when we had just moved in here 10 years ago.

Plant bargains

You would think I have a great green finger but sadly it is not true. It dose not stop me from purchasing any bargain plaints I spot no matter how half dead it is. I love a bargain.

Fern was one euro.

This little Cactus was €2.50 with the cute Simpsons pot thrown in free.

The Fern seeds have germinated at last.

Charity shop

I love charity shops they are like a box of chocolates- you never know what you going to get.

I brought my grandson to one in Lucan today. We got five figures for €3.50 I am not sure who the man in the suit is,he has WWE 2004 stamped under his shoe. When I saw him first I thought he was Dirk Bogarde.

Tracing my Ancestors

I went to a tracing your ancestors workshop in my local library. It was given by Mario Corrigan.
He gave lots of sound advice and some websites I didn't know about.
http://www.familyhistoryshow.net

https://www.facebook.com/familyhistory.ie

http://www.thearmchairgenealogist.com

http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/

http://www.militaryarchives.ie

http://kildare.ie/heritage/

ww.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com

http://www.irishroots.net

http://www.cyndislist.com/uk/irl

http://www.failteromhat.com

http://www.thecore.com/seanruad/

http://www.libraryireland.com

https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Ireland_Births_and_Baptisms_(FamilySearch_Historical_Records)

Mario says 'Use Google it is your friend' and when searching use the 'how to use' button when searching databases. Start searching for someone you know the details of to see how the website works. For example if you Search for Éamon de Valera on the census you won't find him because he in in it as Edward . 

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie

http://www.irishlivesremembered.ie

Is a monthly online magazine, they focus on a different county each month so look at their archives to see area you are interested in.

Even though your family might not be from Northern Ireland , if they lived or worked for an landlord there might be some useful information here.  http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/search_the_archives.htm

I love maps so http://maps.osi.ie is a great website to see what places looked like years ago. It's fun to see where your house is now when it was just fields.