The area around the table in our Dining/Living/Kitchen here in Thézan seems to have become the natural repository for our collect of original paintings.

I have already written about some of them but now they have been joined by three more , one by Ken Kiersey, who was married to my cousin Veronika, of his house in Glenageary, another Giles Baily, this time of a farm house in the Dordogne and a terrific painting by Maeve Doherty of the strand in Dunmore East (showing clearly The Strand Inn where I ran the restaurant for two years.) This was presented to Síle by her colleagues in Scoil Lorcáin when she retired last year.

Caitríona can see that the cushions she gave us for Christmas have found their natural place.
And as today is her birthday- Many Happy returns to Daughter Dee.