April in February

I accept this April weather in February! Without difficulty. Our garden has even started landscaping itself. We now have a pond that threw lovely reflections into the cottage this morning. Too bad I don't have a picture.

Obsessive compulsive washing-up disorder

An obsessive compulsive disorder emerges whenever I do the washing up at work. I have to do the yellow trays separate from the red ones. Glasses and mugs have to be arranged separately in a certain way in order to allow the maximum amount to go in the machine with each cycle. I always sort the forks before the knives when they come out of the machine and I can't have bits floating around in the sink.

Some (Irish) people might call this being anal.

I prefer efficient. Or organised.

Either or.

Happy days in the school kitchen

It's a lovely thing to fry homemade fish cakes made from locally caught fish and serve them piping hot IN THE SCHOOL KITCHEN.

I'm happy!