Cork City Break with Kids With no holiday abroad planned, and very little planning done for anything else really, a GAA fixture lead us to Cork for our holidays in Summer 2017. The match, played in the newly reopened Páirc Uí Chaoimh was the main attraction (but we lost!) and…
I moved to Limerick in September 1993, with two new pairs of Penneys’ jeans, some nice tops and not a clue about anything really. I’d never spent any time in Limerick until then and had no affinity for the place. It took me in, the city that’s a lady. I…
I’m still eating Celebrations and there’s a well lit tree in the corner of my sitting room so it’s fair to say that I haven’t quite leapt into 2018 yet. Before I do wave goodbye to 2017 fully I’m looking back over my blog life for the last twelve months,…
Welcome back to the 4th annual Bumbles of Rice What These Real Women Want for Christmas, the antidote to the Christmas Gift Guides in glossy magazines which recommend cashmere scrunchies for £350 and other frivolous luxuries that nobody either wants nor can afford. This gift guide is brought to you…
Slime, it’s been the big hit of 2017 really hasn’t it? The sticky hit. We’ve caught the bug and have been working our way through Slime Recipes with help from our good friend Dr How from Science Wows Ultimate Slime Guide . Not content with sticky, disgusting, slimey slime the…
Gaelic Games are popular as ever, and if you’ve a kid who’s into it, living and breathing GAA like I do you’ll know that there’s not much room for other interests! With that in mind, and for my own personal research too, I’ve put together this list of Christmas gift…
When my kids want to be cruel to each other they taunt by saying something really nice to each other and then say “I really mean that too, in an alternate universe that doesn’t exist”. Talking to my husband recently about our general life experience, about everyday things like walking…
Tomorrow is the first of November, when all across the world toy dinosaurs “come to life” at night and get up to mischief. There’s no message, no threats for the kids to behave or the dinosaurs will report them to a higher authority, no consequences. It’s just old-fashioned fun, with…
He asked again. The question I dread. The one that makes me overthink and sends me into a spiral of emotions. An abyss of mammy guilt. It’s been a while. I’ve enjoyed that while. He snuggled in next to me, so early that it was still dark outside. I felt…
I’m tired. Oh so tired. Nearly always. I’m tired of not getting enough sleep, and these days its more my own fault than the kids’. (Well, mostly, there still are nights that I wake up with a chubby foot on my neck and I wonder when she climbed in beside…
Welcome to Bumbles of Rice. I'm Sinéad, a mum of three from Wexford, Ireland. You can read all about me in the ABOUT section. I've been sharing recipes, tips and the ups and downs of parenting here since 2012. Expect humour and from the heart pieces, travel and recipes, with lots of keeping it real. You might relate. You might laugh. Click around and see what you think. If you'd like to get in touch email me - bumblesofrice@gmail.com
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