A few months into Covid-19 lockdown I signed up to a subscription to get The Irish Times weekend edition delivered to our letterbox on a Saturday morning. It became a real luxury, something to look forward to after the week of work at home. Getting some pastries - choc au

My mum baked brown bread a lot when we were growing up. Smeared with butter and jam at teatime or with chesse or leftover sunday ham for school lunches. We rarely had white sliced bread in our house. I never appreciated it enough as a child, envying neat crustless white