Monthly Archives: October 2011

Ahem. AHEM! *chinks wine glass, pointedly, clumsily, a little too hard and it breaks and so I have to go and find the dustpan and brush and I cut my finger and I sweat a little bit and swear* ATTENTION … Continue reading →

Here it is – the cake. The cake that my husband bought me. Ha! I am clearly loved after all! Thank you, dear Patisserie Valerie, for your enthusiastic spewy layers of cream and sponge and sauce and chocolate icing and … Continue reading →

Tomorrow it is my birthday, and we are in the middle of an October heatwave. It is very kind of the weather gods to give me BBQ weather and a bit of a shoulder tan and an excuse to wear … Continue reading →