It was never meant to be an extreme holiday, but it was certainly a holiday of extremes.

Two weeks in Cornwall and we certainly packed plenty in. We walked up and down hills, along cliffs and beaches in all types of weather, including glorious sunshine, gloomy grey and howling rain. At one point, we’d seen so many rainbows it was becoming a joke.

We went bodyboarding, rode a zipwire over the Eden Project, but decided against the horse riding after I fell off into a muddy river last year.

I even took my yoga mat with me and fitted in a few sessions.

Sounds like I should have abs of steel by the end of all that, doesn’t it?

Sadly, I never seem to get the exercise/treat ratio right, and although I may have started developing muscles in places I never had before, my research into finding the best pasty/cream tea/ice cream/local beer meant I was a long way from bringing home a six pack as a souvenir.

I didn’t do too badly. My grand total over two weeks was three pasties, two cream teas and one ice cream.

But my research into the beer may have been rather more in-depth than I’d planned and I hadn’t counted on the breakfast pancakes at Fifteen, in Watergate Bay, nor the belly-busting Sunday lunch at the National Trust cafe near the Bedruthan Steps (you have to book, but it’s worth tracking down the telephone number. You’ve never had such hearty, home-cooked food).

Yet my two favourite meals were the simplest. A platter of sardines, mussels, squid and other shellfish galore at a bistro in Fowey – and the best? Home-made bacon butties and a flask of tea, which we’d flung in a rucksack and taken down the coastal path to the beach.

In true Brit style, we huddled behind a windbreak and refused to give in until the sun had given way to the rain.

The best food and the best view ever.

DAVID Cameron has admitted to eating a pasty - but Number 10 has refused to reveal any further details regarding his proclivity for pie-eating.

The revelation came following Chancellor George Osborne’s admission that he was “unable to recall” the last time he had purchased a pasty.

Mr Cameron was quick to quell whispers that he too did not enjoy the palatable-pastry pickings, claiming to be a “keen pasty-eater”.

To prove it he showed a picture of his pasty cellar.

Mr Cameron, who wore a blue suit and a keen smile, went on to tell reporters this morning that he recently bought “a large one” from the West Cornwall Pasty Company's outlet at Leeds station.

“I love a hot pasty,” Mr Cameron added, keen to plug his pasty point.

Shares in the West Cornwall Pasty Company have since fallen sharply, with consumers and investors keen not to align themselves with Mr Cameron’s pasty passion.

Missing the point, Labour leader Ed Miliband held a press conference outside Greggs in Redditch, where he and Shadow Pasty Minister Ed Balls bought eight sausage rolls.

He told reporters: "There is a serious point here,” and ate a sausage roll.

There were shouts of  “do you know what a pasty is Mr Miliband?” to which he proudly held up his sausage roll and took another bite.

Shares in Greggs have since fallen sharply, with consumers and investors keen not to align themselves with Mr Miliband or Balls.

Since then, concerns about the "complexity" of the pie tax and the sun-cloud ratio to heat on the streets have been raised.

In simple, plebby terms, temperatures outside the confines of a shop counter dictate whether VAT is added to a pasty.

“A lukewarm pasty from Greggs is not VAT-able because the ambient temperature outside is the reference point,” said some Labour politician, adding: “It is an extraordinarily complex situation.”

The MET office later confirmed that it was able to measure temperatures ensuring VAT added to pies would be done correctly.

Sales of thermometers rose sharply with consumers keen to measure temperature to ensure they were being charged the correct price.

But what does this latest pie tax mean to the people of Kent?

Isn’t it time that all district and county officials revealed whether or not elected representatives of us - the people - have ever eaten a pasty?

I for one would be extremely keen on finding this information out and everyone has the right to know whether KCC leader Paul Carter knows what a pasty is and whether he has eaten one.

I would also urge Number 10 to release a full list of all pasties eaten by Mr Cameron, his cabinet and MPs across the country. Including the Lords and especially John Prescott.