Zen Body & Sole

18/11/2025

17/11/2025

Someone’s feeling Christmasy 🥰🎅🏼

14/11/2025

This is how we rollin’ these day

10/11/2025

So grateful to be able to listen to the sounds of the waves from my seat in front garden.

10/11/2025

07/11/2025

02/11/2025

We all had such a lovely surprise for my m**s birthday today, got a phone call this afternoon to be In m**s for 2pm @ 1.40pm ! We flew in and omg my m**s wish has come through
My mm loves owls and has loads of ornaments of owls in her house and garden
My brother had organised for to pay my mam a visit with his amazing owls !!! 🦉
We all got to hold them 🫶🏻what beautiful animals and can I just say a huge thank you to colm for making my m**s come through and my Brother for organising it all

30/10/2025

The Parshell (or Irish Samhain Cross) is a traditional charm woven on Oíche Shamhna, Samhain Night, to protect the home and household through the year ahead. Made from two rowan twigs bound with red thread and sometimes also woven with wheaten straw, it wards off the mischief of the Sídhe and any ill luck.

When the new Parshell is hung above the doorway, the maker recites:
“An donas amach, is an sonas isteach, ó anocht go dtí bliain ó anocht”
(Misfortune out, good fortune in, from this night until a year from tonight).

Old Parshells are then moved to the rafters, shed, or byre, as a new one takes their place. A quiet act of protection and blessing, carried through the generations of Samhain nights in Ireland.

I’ve been making these for years, keeping this tradition alive, and have a number of old ones that will soon move out to the sheds. Now is time to visit the Rowan tree, offer a small gift, and ask if she has any twigs to share for this year’s Parshell.