Now To Start On The Cake!

There are two types of people: those who walk into a room and say,"Well, here I am," and those who walk into a room and say, "Ah, there you are." - Frederick Collins.

Welcome to my Baking Thursday 🍰

No sun today!

Heardle time:

Heardle 60s:

My son's answers:

Bed and Breakfast:

Dressed.

Gives hubby a sloppy wet one 💋before he goes to work.

Time for my little ride in Sexy Beast. 

Gets the newspaper.

Drops off son at work.

Back home.

Puts coffee machine on.

Unloads dishwasher.

Loads it back up.

Coffee before Baking.

Now let's get on with it....

Kenny comes out for a little play..

First part of the cake goes in the oven.

Second one gets made.

While the Purple, Blue, sponges are cooling in, the green one goes in the oven.

While I am doing all this, my son get's his A-level results.

Maths - A

 Chemistry - B

 Astro Physics Adv - B

He is not happy about them.

I am so proud of him!

(If I got results like him,

I would be doing the funky chicken in the front garden!)

Light lunch time.

My cake board has been delivered elsewhere...

Here we go again!

Has fun try to explain it was delivered wrong!

I sent a picture of my house, and that's not in their picture!

20 minutes later, a worker from the factory pictured, comes delivers my parcel!

Thank you I say!

I put the 3 layers on the cake board with strawberry frosting.

Now to make the final 3 coloured sponges.

Hubby came home and had a sloppy wet one 💋

I was waiting for the yellow one to cool down.

The final red sponge was in the oven baking.

Tea time.

Salmon Wellington.

Now to finish the first part of the cake.

Each part of the cake is coloured and flavoured:

Red - Cherry Bakewell

Orange - Orange

Yellow - Lemon

Green - Peppermint

Blue - Blueberry

Purple - Black Cherry 

The cake is covered in strawberry flavoured Frosting.

Plus in the Heart Shaped Hole

is filled with Rainbow edible bubbles.

The next stage tomorrow is to cover the cake with Pink Fondant Glitter Icing,

Then a multi colour chocolate collar will be added.

All ready to be judged on Sunday!

I can't believe it, it has took me 9 hours to do the first part of making the cake!

Now to sit down and read today's newspaper.

UK No.1 on this day in 1966:

The Beatles - Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby

US No.1 on this day in 1979:

Chic - Good Times 

Cake gets put in the fridge.

Sleep tea time.

The Friday Feeling is back tomorrow 🎈

 

 

 
 
 
 

  

 





 

 

Leaving The Forties Behind...

The longer the title, the less important the job - George McGovern

Welcome to my sweaty hump of the week 🐫

Nice big hug with brew.

Breakfast.

Dressed.

I got one son up for school.

Tomorrow is my hubby's 50th Birthday.

The cake is being made when I get back from the lollipop job.

Speaking of that job, off I pop to it!

Nice and warm 👙

Big big sunglasses time!

The traffic lights had been took away at the bottom of the road now \o/

Summer coat on.

Tree shot.

The fun and games I had again.

I stopped some parents crossing, as 3 cars on the otherside of the road failed to stop and kept going. I still stopped the white car from yesterday again....

Lambo time \o/

Finished in one piece.

I got the newspaper and magazine for next door neighbour before I got home.

Time to add some bunting to the garden.

Gave my younger son the balloons to pump up 🎈

Then to repot some plants that arrived while I was out.

Used up two bags of compost!

Then I got Kenny out for a quick play....

To make my hubby's Birthday Cake.

Once it was done in the oven.

I let it cooled down.

Now for me to cool down...

Finished the cake!

Writes out my hubby's card.

Wrapped up my hubby's presents.

Salad time!

Puts the cake in the fridge.

Now out to do the afternoon shift.

It clouded over, so I had no sun beaming down on me. 

The traffic was behaving themselves this afternoon. My friend appeared at the end of my shift. We had a good chat for 20 minutes. 

Back home.

Crumpets time!

&

Lolly time.

Then I'm out for the singasong time!

 Gets in, with my cold bottle of water.

Loads up the skip.

I was well warm when I finished!

Now to drip sweat on the way home while singing along.

Gets back.

Nice tea.

I went for a cold bath again.

Then I added the blown up balloons 🎈 to the bunting...

All ready for the Big Birthday tomorrow🎈

 



 

 

Hearts And Funny Noises!

My daughter thinks I'm nosy - at least, that's what she wrote in her diary - Jenny Adams 

Welcome to my Thursday 👅

Hug with brew.

Breakfast.

I gave hubby a big sloppy 💋 as he is working from his office today.

I got the kids up to do their on-line learning.

Now for a coffee!

Now to start on my hubby's Valentine present.

The end result does involve hearts and funny noises....

My Aldi order arrived \o/

Out for some fresh air and get the newspaper.

Nothing was happening at my dad's house when I went past.

I finished making my hubby's Valentine present.

Grand unveiling on Sunday!

Quick read of the newspaper..

Sheryl  Crow  is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and actress. Her music incorporates elements of pop, rock, country, jazz, and blues. She has released ten studio albums, four compilations, and two live albums, and has contributed to a number of film soundtracks. She is 59 years old 🎈 

Whitney  Houston  was an American singer and actress. She was certified as the most awarded female artist of all time by Guinness World Records and is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time, with sales of over 200 million records worldwide. 

She died on this day in 2012 aged 48 years old. 

Lunchtime.

A bit of CNN time.

More post.

The back up balloon arrived for Mother's Day.

Then it was on to a little bit of baking.

Tea at 3 

Made a big Jam Tart.

Cheddar and Sun Dried Tomato bread.

Lavender Shortbread.

Got on to write yesterday's blog.

Hubby came home and received a wet sloppy 💋.

Fish tea ready.

Followed by 2 more episodes of:

With Sleep Tea of course...

Friday Feeling is back tomorrow🎈

&

Valentine's Day is not too far away either!