Tues 27th July : Tayto Castle

Today's mission was to get into Tayto Castle!

I went for the grovelling approach. It worked. They let me in ... and very exciting it was too.

First I had a chat about a photo I have of myself, cousin Colm and cousin Brian tucking into 3 bags of Taytos. Im about 7 in the photo, so its from about 1975. On the 3 bags you can see the price of the packet - 4d. Since decimalisation was in 1971, were we eating crisps 4 years old?

Then I met Pat.

At one point my enthusiasm was met with scorn when I asked something technical. "See this byy..a.dgge. Says tour guide, not scientist!"

Was given a lot of freebies, and also bought some trinkets. Went to supermarket and bought all the Tayto products available (one of). Parcelled them all up and sent to Paul for his birthday. Dont eat all at once!