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Sep. 27th, 2025 08:34 pmI've made this cake today. Basically, it's an orange sponge (Grandma idiot proof recipe with orange flavour), vanilla custard (the other half of the custard powder that needed to be used up) and dried apricots (that had been soaked in baking rum and cut into tiny pieces, so that Mum could eat them). It doesn't look very impressive but it's absolutely delicious, and that is what counts, right?
I also made Shepherd's Pie, which means I won't have to cook in the next two days. Considering that tomorrow is cleaning day, that means a lot. And we had laundry days, so we're both suitably dead on our feet. I from baking, cooking and making the long overdue inventory of my baking ingredients, Mum from spontaneously washing up any dishes she could lay hand of. And today there were lots of dishes.
In the afternoon I called H; her eldest grandson turned 10 today and the youngest granddaughter will turn 6 tomorrow. Good grief, how did these kids grow up so quickly! As if it had been yesterday that Theo was born, and he's 10 already! And the girls will start school next year! The mind blows!
The rest of the day was spent in the usual catatonic state: some telly, some inane YouTube videos, some resting. We both needed to gather our strength for tomorrow.
I also made Shepherd's Pie, which means I won't have to cook in the next two days. Considering that tomorrow is cleaning day, that means a lot. And we had laundry days, so we're both suitably dead on our feet. I from baking, cooking and making the long overdue inventory of my baking ingredients, Mum from spontaneously washing up any dishes she could lay hand of. And today there were lots of dishes.
In the afternoon I called H; her eldest grandson turned 10 today and the youngest granddaughter will turn 6 tomorrow. Good grief, how did these kids grow up so quickly! As if it had been yesterday that Theo was born, and he's 10 already! And the girls will start school next year! The mind blows!
The rest of the day was spent in the usual catatonic state: some telly, some inane YouTube videos, some resting. We both needed to gather our strength for tomorrow.
