A COUPLE of days in London is fun, but I was commandeered to go by my publisher and my long-suffering editor, to finish my latest book, 30 Years of the Ballymaloe Cookery School.

KITTY TRAVERS loves ice cream. When she was little, her mum found her rummaging in a bin at the circus licking ice cream wrappers, oblivious of the clowns and trapeze.