Tea and cakes and things I like

Now, I don’t intend to post amusing things etc here, but this was in a magazine in my b&b in Galway (lovely b&b, by the way, Petra House).
It’s for feminine freshness products. I love the idea that you should be shiny fresh and clean and antiseptic there. Who buys this shit? And who designed the ad?

This was a birthday present from a friend and it was delicious. I’d been craving a good coffee and walnut cake and this was it. The cake was walnut cake, and the icing added the coffee flavouring. Not the traditional method but it worked. The walnut cake was light and fluffy and lovely.
It went especially well with tea after a walk and elephant watching.

Ahh, the crisp sandwich. Next to cake and cucumber sandwiches there is no finer snack.
This one is on wholegrain vienna loaf, with soya cream cheese, and cheese and onion hunky dorys (crinkle cut crisps for anyone not familiar with them).
Soft bread here, making for an interesting contrast in textures as you bite into it. Soft, so it’s gentle on your tongue and the roof of your mouth, then crispy in the middle for some bite.
The cream cheese helps keep the crisps in place where they belong.
Sometimes I add solid cheese, usually cheddar, but this time the crisps were the main event. Very satisfying it was too.

So, we’re out for a walk in Clondalkin - Corkagh Park. Walk out of the gate, look over to the caravans across the way. “Oh look”, I say, “an elephant”. “Yes yes”, my companians say. A few minutes later they look over themselves and believe me.
It was cool - not the elephants as such, more that fact that they were just wandering around a park in Dublin, eating the grass and the oak trees.
Driving past yesterday the circus had the tents up and all, so it wouldn’t have looked so suprising. I didn’t think circuses had animals any more, but sadly I was wrong. Poor things, they looked pretty wrecked.