We’d like to keep everyone up to speed on what’s happening in the all-new (Brophy) Haney household so make sure to check back often for updates.  A huge thank you to everyone for all of the wonderful wedding gifts! We haven’t been able to open all of them yet and will have to wait for our next trip back to Dublin to pick most of them up, but we will start posting some photos, stories and videos about them very soon. If you haven’t seen it already, check out Jake’s blog post about the wedding week – it really captures it beautifully.

In the meantime, we’d like to introduce you to our new home in Cambridge.  It definitely feels like home now; we’ve done a fair bit of furniture rearranging, gardening, plenty of cooking and we’ve had quite a few visitors to stay already so I think it’s fair to say we’ve made our mark. The house was furnished already which has its advantages but also its disadvantages, particularly in the crappy couch department. Mom sent us some great couch covers to help fix that problem though and the living room is so much cosier now!

We live just off Mill Road which is a pretty international part of Cambridge; there are lots of small independent food stores, cafes and restaurants and plenty of great pubs. The pub food is really good in our area. One of our favourite local places so far is the Kingston Arms; they do a mean venison stew and their sausages are out of this world. Mostly though, it’s been so good to have a garden to grill out in and build our very own smoker…..more on this later, promise.