Monthly Archives: August 2008

Tweets on 2008-08-03

  • Pretty hoarse today. #
  • Had a lovely afternoon with nephew and his parents, now scrambling around the attic looking for suitcases and academic dress. #
  • Setting off 5 hours later than planned 🙂 #
  • Name of the day: herpetologist Blair Hedges, who has found world’s smallest snake. #
  • Depressing news: death, death, death, death, I’m stopping cricket, I’ve found a snake/worm. #
  • Driving through Nether Wallop #
  • Checking into gorgeous suite of rooms at Sarum College. #

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Tweets on 2008-08-02

  • Watching Sooty and Sweep sing Nessun Dorma when I should be getting ready to party. #
  • Muddy paw prints undermining our frantic cleaning efforts. #
  • First guest arrives! #
  • Cats trying to steal tuna sandwiches from out of the mouths of guests. #
  • Cats now guarding the cucumber hoping the tuna will come back. #

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Cake

From today’s B3ta newsletter: Cake Wrecks, another of those mickey-taking blogs from the other day.

I’m posting it because it helps my own cake-disaster look less bad. It’s my birthday party later today, and we’re having an open house. I said there would be cake, so I’m making a few now. But somehow this lot of ingredients simply aren’t going as far as they normally do. I had to put the drizzle cake in a smaller loaf tin so the tiny amount of batter didn’t look stupid. And the chocolate victoria sponge…? There wasn’t even enough cake mix to fill both tins, so the batter didn’t quite make it to the edge.

Quite unintentionally, I’ve made Babycakes.

Here’s hoping this isn’t a harbinger for the rest of the day. I’m afraid people will have to put up with bought cakes after all. A dawn raid of the Cheesecake Shop seems in order.

EDIT: Oh boy – got a little further through the B3ta newsletter and found this hilarious version of Stars in their Eyes – with Sweep, from Sooty and Sweep.