Argh! Well nothing is going right here 🙁
Made my fail safe sponge cake ready to decorate this evening, but it failed 🙁 It’s way too flat to be covered with icing and turned into Dora – especially when there will be 7 adults and 4 children wanting a piece! Also made some gingerbread biscuits with little cut out stained glass effect coloured windows, which due to over enthusiastic assistance from the children have none of the delicate charm and detail they should have, and all of the appearance of a lump of playdough with broken glass chippings – and they caught cos I was busy trying to do something else instead of watch the clock to see how long they were in the oven for!
Had to run out twice for ingredients I thought I had in the cupboard but didn’t – the first time we walked round the shop, the second time I bundled the kids in the car and left them outside the shop while I ran in (you can see the car through the window so we can still wave to each other, I just couldn’t face putting their coats and shoes on again).
We got a cheque from Camelot which I recognised the envelope for and got momentarily excited, but its just a tenner!
Davies is leaving a trail of slightly snotty tissues all round the house – he dabs ineffectually at his very sore nose then just chucks the tissue where he is standing – anyone got any tips for teaching a child to blow their own nose?
Scarlett needs constant supervision so she doesn’t scratch her nose down to the bone and the cat crapped in the laundry basket which made me retch while I tried to clear it off all the clothes before re-washing them. I have three towering baskets of clean washing to put away but as the kids can’t be left downstairs and they will only try and ‘help’ if I take them upstairs with me which will result in clothes everywhere they will have to wait ’till later too.
Not a hope of making any Christmas cards , I think I will make some buttercream for the failed cake and see if they can be persuaded to eat it while sneakily making another one and hoping it rises this time!
Please don’t feel you need to worry about going to all that trouble making a Christmas card for us, save yourself the trouble and just send us a bottle of wine.
PS we like Rioja, if you just happen to a have a an old one kicking around, we don’t even mind if it isn’t new.
Comment by Tim — 03 December 2004 @ 6:50 pm
Hmm, no have checked the wine cellar and the only thing we are not likely to consume ourselves is a bottle of Tesco value asti 🙂
Can do you a good character novelty cake though if you like!
Comment by Nic — 03 December 2004 @ 7:06 pm
I do have a table which could do with having the varnish stripped off it so that Asti might come in handy. Just slide the character novelty cake in a plain brown envelope and ruin our postman’s week. 🙂
Comment by Tim — 03 December 2004 @ 7:10 pm
Ah sorry, the Asti has apparantly been earmarked for killing the weeds growing on our drive and cleaning the loo 🙂
Novelty cake in design stage – as in will let you know when i have thought of one 🙂
Comment by Nic — 03 December 2004 @ 9:34 pm