Happy Birthday to Me!

8 Jan

Before you ask, no, it’s not really my birthday today, actually, it happens to be my darling sisters ( HAPPY BIRTHDAY SARAH!!)

However, I am (belatedly) celebrating the 1st birthday of the narcissistic ramblings I call my blog. I’m filled with the same feelings I presume new parents have on their own child’s first birthday, pride, smugness and a slight disbelief that I have lasted a year without killing it.

Alot happened in 2012 for me. I learned how to make scotch eggs, I moved house, 6 TIMES. I learned how to drive, I realised I quite like Dublin after years of being terrified to even walk through it, but, really 2012 was about leaving my terrible call centre job and moving to Italy to work on a farm.

Doing the internship at Spannocchia and subsequently working on a biodynamic vineyard taught me so much about food. Yep, I learned that eating peas freshly picked is one of the sweetest things you’ll ever taste, that you can smell the tell tale signs of a great wine vintage in its first few days of fermentation and that coughing and spluttering is how to judge the quality of a Tuscan olive oil. But, I also learned the importance of food globally, the horrific practises towards live stock in commercial farming and the unfair, unsustainable and utterly wasteful methods of food production and distribution we have today.

But on the upside it has made me realise what I want to do, so here I am, back in my home town, working in two community gardens and being paid Sweet.Fuck.All, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. (well, unless someone wants to give me more money? Hello? Anyone?..)

So here’s to a great 2012 and hopefully a better paid 2o13.

Happy New Year!

Highlights of 2012;