My husband went to England without us. I guess that we have been without him so it was about time he had a turn. It was a strange feeling though seeing him off. Funny, I thought, I either go with our children or stay with our children. Who gets the holiday both times? Then I let…
Tag: cake
Cherry Cake Challenge, Birds and a bit of swiss roll
Friday. Day off. Changeover Day as one daughter is departing for Boston for a long-awaited concert trip and only son is returning from camp for the weekend. My first delight of the day, before baking, was watching some little birds expertly picking caterpillars off my kale plants. They were very thorough, enjoying their feast and saving me…
Saturday Shenanigans
There’s something to be said for being woken up at 5:30am on a Saturday morning – even it is by your crazy husband getting dressed to get to the trail and rescue the dog lead (without Roxie on the end of it) from way up in a tree. He didn’t want to be seen by…