Happy St Patrick's Day!

This young lady is the reason I have Irish blood.  She’s my Grandma on my Dad’s side, one Mary Elizabeth Eddis from Belfast, Northern Ireland. She left Ireland in 1920 when she was not quite as old as the century, with a group of girls heading to Canada to work in the mills at Galt, Ontario, Canada.  She left behind her parents and several brothers and sisters. 


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The Gallery of Favorites 16 March

Alea of Premeditated Leftovers and I want to welcome you to our weekend blog hop, The Gallery of Favorites, a place for you to feature favorite posts from your own blog. Thank you to everyone who shared posts last week. 

This week we are featuring some of the St Patrick’s Day themed posts from the last couple of weeks. 

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Air Travel Tips

As regular readers will know, I travel a lot, and particularly by air. I try to be careful to keep my carbon footprint small in as many other ways as I can so that I can to make up for the amount we fly. 

 

If you travel by air as I do, my tips really can make the difference between travel being a pleasure or being a hassle. 

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The Hearth and Soul Hop with The 21st Century Housewife

Welcome to the Hearth and Soul Hop, the blog hop that shares food from the hearth to feed your soul. Recipes should include healthy ingredients and can be old or new recipes or posts. Articles on real food, slow food, foraging, herbal remedies, local food, sustainable food, organics, gardening or any healthy eating information written in a positive light are also welcome. 

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The Gallery of Favorites March 9

Alea of Premeditated Leftovers and I want to welcome you to our weekend blog hop, The Gallery of Favorites, a place for you to feature favorite posts from your own blog. We are posting the hop a bit early as I am in California this week, and so in the same time zone with Alea for a change! 


Although Alea and I both spend a lot of our time writing about food, we do have many other interests and know that our readers do as well. The Gallery of Favorites is a place for all bloggers - not just food bloggers - to share their ideas, interests and passions. Of course, recipe and food posts are very welcome too.

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Spring Travel Ideas from Danielle Robb of A Place in the Sun

Photo credit A Place in the Sun

Danielle Robb is the executive producer and host of A Place in the Sun, an eclectic lifestyle, property, and travel show on Discovery’s Velocity Network. A Place in the Sun is dedicated to helping home buyers break boundaries in their own lives, while searching for affordable property around the world either for relocation, as an investment property, or as a vacation home. Last month, Danielle shared her Vacations on a Dime suggestions and today she highlights her favourite vacation destinations for this time of year. So without further ado, over to Danielle.

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The Hearth and Soul Hop with The 21st Century Housewife

Welcome to the Hearth and Soul Hop, the blog hop that shares food from the hearth to feed your soul. Recipes should include healthy ingredients and can be old or new recipes or posts. Articles on real food, slow food, foraging, herbal remedies, local food, sustainable food, organics, gardening or any healthy eating information written in a positive light are also welcome. 


To see last week's featured recipes, and to share your posts, please click here...