Sadly, those of us working at Kirkwall cannot go through and sample the many delights which are surely being laid out on plates as I type. Apparently, a Stromness member of staff makes fabulously crispy-yet-soft meringues which are sure to make a showing today. In my dreams, they look something like this:
...and sometimes they look like this:
...although at this precise moment I am imagining them thus:
Sadly, imagining how they taste is all we shall do today in Kirkwall. Don't sit at your desks, crying whilst drooling and alarming customers like us, take a trip to the Stromness library, have a cuppa and a homebake and feel smugly charitable at the same time.
