Friday 19 April 2004
Another
cold day 10 c to 11c, but no rain. Both of us doing admin including detailed
and often frustrating research into accommodation for the end of the Ireland component (Lady P of course). It is certainly not cheap here. Nonetheless, we will have achieved 63% free
accommodation for April.
We
headed west this afternoon for a little drive to a cute village of Glendalough
on the lough Glenda, where there is a 6th century ruin of a
monastery and cathedral of St Kevin. We are in Ireland after all, the land of stone ruins! There is also a very smart restaurant and
a quality hotel and bar where Flashy spent sometime observing the various good and bad
service and OHS standards of two bar staff, while sampling a Jamesons or two.
Lady
P went for a light infantry march – she calls it a walk - and joined Flashy for a
shandy before driving home.
Flashy
put all the duck and chook eggs into a billy of water this morning, to see if any floated.
Two duck eggs did, so they will be kept for the pixies to make magic spells,
while the fresh eggs will go into a quiche for tonight.
Talking
of which, our host Karen, is a work from home caterer and has more stuff than
Flashy did when doing the same work in Cairns. She is in the process of
building out one room as a commercial grade kitchen. Cooking envy! So, looking to make a nice, rich, cheese based flaky pastry for
tonight’s quiche, Flashy needed scales, baking weights, baking paper and a
decent pie flan. After searching and finding none, he asked Lady P to have a
girl look. No luck either. Then sniffing about in the new under construction
room, he found all that was needed. So, said quiche base has been blind baked
and the bacon, roasted pumpkin, caramelised onion, two cheeses, parsley and
chive quiche is ready for dinner.
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