KCUK 9 Today & an Irish Oddity

Happy Birthday to all my friends at KCUK and thanks to Cath our list Mom, and the moderators who give so much time to help make it the best group ever. Everyone is so caring and sharing and it is such a talented group.

Here's a couple of cards in celebration. Well I'm Gemini and I do things in twos! Still using my stash of backgrounds.... hope I'm not getting too boring with them. It shows how handy it is to have some ready as it then means that the messy part is all done and dusted and it is thus easier to make a card quite quickly.

Something reminded DH and I yesterday about one of our best holidays, which was in Ireland's West and South coasts, a couple of years ago. I don't think we laughed so much on any holiday before that one as so many odd things happened. DH said, "Remember the elephant?" so I just had to find this photograph as this was a perfect example of an Irish oddity. We were driving back, along the coast near Dingle, after having a meal out, and YES! we had also had a drink or two. As we passed a field I said to DH there's an elephant loose in that field... "OH yes, of course!! he said, "this is Dingle, they are native to here you know!" I made him drive back a way to see it for himself and the elephant WAS just loose lumbering around and there were also camels!!! You can just see Jumbo on the left disappearing behind the bushes, couldn't get a better pic, but note how low the hedge is to the front and it was there looking over when I first spotted it!. It really could have just walked off and there was nobody around to guard them. We presumed that there was a circus somewhere... .but then again it WAS Ireland!