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  • Rhubarb and Flustered

    Late night baking for a play school bake sale. No sugar, no time, no ideas! Until I remembered the rhubarb a friend gave me recently. Chopped up and stewed with a windfall apple, I substituted icing sugar for caster and prayed. Then I baked them with a blob of fruit compote inside and prayed. The…

  • So not Martha

    God I must love my Elder son….I have spent HOURS making a travesty of a birthday cake I have also taken him to a school disco, bought glow sticks to prop up our parents’ association and iced little cakes for hm to give to his friends at Going Home Time this afternoon. I am pooped!…

  • it’s raining

    just a quickie – the weather is so rubbish here we have been confined indoors – just wanted to share the chaos while Little One snoozes… lots of painting and card making for Father’s Day. The Richard Scarry book is a reprint of one I had when I was small, it’s brilliant! we trashed the…