Trevor is my sourdough starter, he’s very exciting. A sourdough starter is a way of making bread without having yeast. You use the natural yeast in the atmosphere instead and it takes 6 days to get it going. I have to feed Trevor with water and flour every day for 6 days and then I can use him to make bread! I can feed him other things like beer and potatoes as well. Not too sure how that works yet though. Then you can keep part of your starter and keep using it – one of the teachers has had hers for over a year.

Other than that everything is going well. I think I’m learning lots and seem to be doing ok, although this morning was very stressful. My partner and I divided our work particularly badly and I had marmalade to do as well, so I didn’t get finished in time so it was all a bit rubbish. Trevor cheered me up though.

I’m not feeling very good at writing at the moment, so I will try to get some inspiration and write some more about my travels some time soon. It’s really busy here and I have to go to a different cottage to even get a sniff of the internet, so everything seems to be conspiring against me. I think Ireland hates me…