![]() ![]() Also, O’Sullivan’s down at Crookhaven is a lovely spot for lunches. We are very lucky to have the superb Budd’s restaurant in Ballydehob, while the Riverside in Skibbereen is great too. We have so many places to eat out in Cork - where are your go-to spots for lunch or that special meal? I make a mean nut roast, smoothies to die for, and who knew the amount of things you can make with the humble chickpea!. ![]() I can’t deny I’d be happy to have all my meals cooked for me if given a choice but I changed my diet a couple of years ago to a plant-based one and that did renew my interest in cooking. If it’s the latter do you have a signature dish? Thankfully, more and more walkways have opened up in the area to feed my need to ramble.ĭo you like to entertain or be entertained? I’m putting a polytunnel up next year and cannot wait to be spending time in it, there’s really nothing quite so grounding as getting your hands in (a different kind of) mud and growing your own food. I love gardening and am slowly bringing my garden back from the overgrown state it was in when I bought the house two years ago. So many of them are self-employed like me that weeks and weekends often get blurred.ĭo you get to indulge any hobbies? Even as a spectator? I do, particularly friends who work the Monday to Friday. All beautiful and all dog-friendly.ĭo you like to catch up with family and friends at the weekend? ![]() I have three favourite spots: Barley Cove beach, Glengarriff Woods, and Gougane Barra. Next city on my bucket list is Barcelona and I would go with my sister and daughter (if she’s about and not on her own travels) as they are both Gaudi freaks like me.Ĭloser to home, is there someplace you like to head to recharge the batteries? If money was no object where would you head to on a weekend city break? And who would you bring with you? That is one of the joys of being self-employed in this particular job. So if a beautiful bright sunny day presents itself midweek and I’ve nothing that has to be urgently done that day, I’ll go and make the most of it and work at the weekend instead. Living in this part of the world I have always felt that you have to grab the weather when it comes. However, I feel cheated if I don’t get one or two lie-ins a week.ĭoes work creep into your weekend at all?Īll the time. Then home for a scrumptious meal and feet up for the rest of the evening.ĭo you enjoy lie-ins or are you up with the lark?īoth, but more often I’m up early, especially on work days. If weather permits, a nice evening stroll with my daughter and or a friend or two, followed by an early pint. What is your ideal way to spend a Friday night? I now sell my work at home and worldwide thanks to the amazing connectivity of social media. I use Scarva Potteries porcelain paperclay which is the perfect medium for my work, and use glass to bring colour to the pieces, or I use the translucency of the porcelain to create illuminated pieces like lamps. That is what I try to express in my work. I am inspired by nature - the patterns and forms and the sheer fragile beauty of it all. ![]()
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