Great balls of flour

BRITISH Queens for sale — the sign on the side of the road both amused and perplexed our UK visitors. A gorgeous bowl of floury new potatoes in the centre of the kitchen table always makes my heart skip.

Pad digging the first new potatoes in the vegetable garden 'balls of flour' he'd declare proudly, and then after the first taste he'd bless himself and solemnly mutter, 'Please God may we all be as well this time next year'.

I particularly remember a variety called Skerry Champions, yellowy flesh with dark purple eyes, I've searched high and low for seed in recent years but have never been able to find it.