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Quilts that sing and tell stories, made by hands from every County in Northern Ireland - by women who love this tradition and are skilled at it.聽 Anne Marie McAleese talks to Larne woman Anne Marcus, who is from the Loose Threading Quilters Group.聽 Song of the Quilt is a music themed collection of quilts, taking inspiration from children's songs and musicals and featuring 27 unique pieces, which arrived聽at Larne Museum and Arts Centre this week.聽

Last year two great crested grebes and a Gentoo penguin, with links to Belfast and Rathlin fought it out to become the best Northern Ireland bird photo in the country and snappers who love birds are getting ready to聽do it all over again - with this year's competition closing soon, Anne Marie McAleese talks to Dot Blakely on where and what birds to look for and Templepatrick man, Nigel Moore from Northern Ireland's Ornithologist Club, who organise the event.聽

As well as Your Place and Mine being 25 years old this year, a place we've been to back and forth over that time is Castletown in Tyrone and the Ulster American Folk Park - it's their 40th anniversary in 2016 and the celebrations have already started with the unveiling of an exciting object.聽 Anne Marie McAleese talks to assistant Curator, Liam Corry, to find out more about this American Civil War buggy, which belonged to a priest from County Armagh.