A pleasant day

[wiseheart]

One of my younger ex-colleagues paid me a visit today. She helped to set my birthday prezzie (the mini sewing machine) up correctly, so I hope I'll be able to use it in the future without difficulties.

Since Grandma always said that one ought to serve one's guests nice things, I baked a hazelnut-chocolate sponge cake, filled with red currant jam and topped with white chocolate icing.

Take a look:



The decoration consists of mini marshmallows and milk chocolate drops. It turned out very yummy. A good thing that I can eat basically everything in the 8 hours when I'm allowed to eat at all. As it is, I don't feel particularly hungry during the rest of the day, surprisingly enough. Actually, I eat less than I used to. Hopefully, it will work out. My ankles and knees would be grateful.

Other than that, yesterday we finally had the dratted windows cleaned, so a big part of the renovating hell's damage has been cleaned up. Only the doors left.

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[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

It's surprising how dirty windows seem to creep up on you. One of the first things I noticed in my rental agreement was that the owner insists that the windows be cleaned monthly. Fortunately, I found a cleaner fairly easily, because even though my property is on the ground floor, cleaning them would involve ladders.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I must ruefully admit that we only have the windows cleaned twice a year. That's what curtains are for. *g*
Ladders are the main problem with us, too; Mum is too old to climb on them, and I got vertigo after three steps upwards.