Cork Talk with Kathy Burk

Hello, Cathy, and welcome to the podcast.

And welcome to having me, Tim.

It's fantastic to hear your voice.

Uh, where are you? Somewhere glamorous in the world?

Well, I quite like Oxford.

[laughs]

We're in a village south of Oxford, in fact.

So, uh, I can come home from working in London and smell the roses.

Oh, what a beautiful idea.

Any vineyards near you? Quite a few, I suppose.

Oh, um, no.

I had, I had one vine in my garden, but the, A, the grapes, I didn't pick it, s- uh, someone else did, and the grapes were tiny.

They were sweet, but they were so full of pips.

I was spending all my time spitting them out.

So-

[laughs] Picking them out of your teeth.

Yes.

[laughs]

I, I'd wanted a...

Well, indeed, I'd wanted a nice, big, gorgeous Muscat, but-

[laughs]

... sadly I've got what is now a dead, a dead red vine.

Oh, dear.