Can someone pass the cholesterol

We made it home in one piece. The 24 hour journey was made all the better by the fact that we were both able to sleep for so much of it. The only real mishap was when me tongue and lips stuck to the ice cream they gave us. There should be a warning on those things. I couldn’t even let J know what was going on, as I couldn’t talk. I did some heavy breathing and it did eventually release my mouth.

It is so wonderful to be back in Ireland. It’s been over two years since my last visit and, much as I love Sydney, I do miss Dublin. Everything looks so green and lush at the moment because there has been plenty of rain in the last few weeks. The gods have been good to me though and we’ve had nothing but sunshine since I arrived.

Mum and Dad were out at the airport with the welcome home banner, which was lovely. The first thing we all did when we got home was have a cup of tea. This has been followed by many “anyone want a cup of tea?” questions since. I had put in my order for the meal I miss the most so that Mum could get all the perfect ingredients. This meal is no gastronomic complexity it is a plain and simple fry-up. There has to be the Clonakility black and white pudding, the Superquin sausages and the brown bread (and a pot of tea of course). Mum was very good and let me snap a photo before she served it up. And just so you know that’s not a single serving in the photo, it is the family serving. Delicious, now someone call the heart doctor.