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Running a little behind schedule with September blog I’m afraid. I think this is what happens when you start thinking about Christmas before Halloween has happened! Cast your mind back to a week of almost perfect summer weather. As someone who now spends a...

I don’t know about you but I have very mixed feelings about the month of August! I think it has something to do with the end of school holidays. Let me explain. When I was 13 my family moved from Kilkeel to Uganda (quite the house move!) This was in the...

I have heard summer described as Nature’s rush hour and I think it’s a perfect description. The Green has been buzzing with activity over the past few weeks. The Green is certainly aptly named as I have seen every shade of it in recent days. From livid lime green...

June last year was an unbelievable month of good weather. I think we will be talking about it for years. However, just because last year was incredible did not mean that this year would be the same. June started wet …it rained and rained for days at the beginning of...

I think May is my favorite month (or one of them at least!) probably because of the 2 Bank Holidays. Nobody ever tires of the feeling that they don’t have to get up for work because it’s a Bank Holiday – I think it’s the most useful thing the Bank has ever done!  May...

A year ago Mark and I started to focus on the promotion of The Green Holiday Cottages as a self catering holiday destination. Mark had worked really hard at the renovation of the site but we had to begin to build up a holiday business. Neither one of us...