The Menu is an awful man for dipping into his progeny’s future college fund to blow it all on gastronomic goodies and few spots are more tempting than Urru Culinary Store, in Bandon.

Easter Apple Trees: Instead of an Easter Egg, one of our teachers at Ballymaloe, Florrie Cullinane, gave each of her children an apple tree to plant — a huge success — they got plenty of Easter Eggs from other people.