Sunshine & The City

After such bloody awful weather on Friday, I was sure we were going to wake up to grey skies and rain but luckily God decided to smile on everyone for the long weekend and it was the most gorgeous morning, not even too cold - my head wasn't feeling quite as full of light and joy but we headed for the English Market for a serious fry up at The Farmgate Café, such a fab restaurant, sort of in a raised gallery area above the market so you can see everything happening below you - poached eggs, bacon, sausage, mushrooms, tomato, toast, pots of tea and freshly squeezed orange juice, the relief! And it really was freshly squeezed orange juice, that has to be one of the most abused culinary terms of all time, honestly some people think that "freshly squeezed" means that you just opened the box of orange juice (which hasn't seen an orange in months)  and squeezed it into the glass - not the same thing.

Feeling a little restored, Nat and Laurie headed off to Galway in the Mini, I'd decided not to go because your man and I are going up there when he comes over in December and I want us to have a few things to do together that I'll not have seen already, apparently it's the greatest place, masses of Irish music and fab pubs, can't wait.

So I wondered around Cork for most of the afternoon, such a pretty city centre, there were bands playing everywhere, sat in the sunshine WITHOUT my coat on it was so lovely, drinking coffee and listening to the music - gorgeous way to spend the day. 

Jazz jingles

Swung back round the hostel later to fetch my bag and then hopped on the train to Midleton, was pouring when I got there, good excuse to take a cab home rather than the bus and then went round to Mrs. Walsh's cottage for the evening, drank lots more wine with Lucy and between us, solved the world's problems - had an omelette for dinner since that's also in our Technique Exam and if you take more than 30 seconds to make it, you don't pass that part, good excuse to eat omelettes every day for the next week, alternated with poached eggs which rumour has it might also make an appearance...............