On the phone to my friend last night I was told to update my
blog. So Janine,
this is for you.
I blame the latest lapse in posts to the fact that after spending an entire day staring at a computer screen I don't tend to want to do the same when I get home. Lately I can go 2-3 days without turning my laptop on, which is actually quite refreshing! Today though, I had the day off work, which was pretty exciting. The only thing about having a day off in the week is that everyone else still has to go to work, so I needed to find things to occupy myself. I decided
that I would spend the first part of the day watching a bit of daytime tv whilst I thought about what to do with the rest of my day. Naturally, as it was the morning, I watched
This Morning. On the programme today was a woman you could deem as ‘morbidly
obese’ telling Eamonn and Ruth how she spends her evenings sitting on her bed eating cakes whilst on webcam. Not only that, but men can watch her doing this as the way she eats cakes is so ‘sexy’ that some men see it
as a kind of porn... All very strange and just the kind of thing I watch
This Morning for.
After all the excitement of This Morning I decided I would do some baking. Only after I had watched Neighbours, of
course. I was distraught upon watching Neighbours to discover that Susan and
Karl have split up, again. I’m hoping they’ll be back together by the next time
I watch it because if Susan and Karl can’t make it then what hope is there for
the rest of us?!
Anyway, I ended up baking some macaroons whilst listening to Magic. (Will anyone ever find out who the third Magic's Mystery Voice belongs to?!) As the photos show my macaroons aren't quite as pretty and delicate as the ones that can be found pretty much any where else, (even France) but I'm pretty proud of my first attempt. Though I don't think I'll be signing up for The Great British Bake Off any time soon...
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| I wonder if the This Morning cake eating woman also enjoys macaroons... |
I was also baking until 11.30 last night trying to make a 'congratulations' cake for my sister. However, it went a bit wrong and all I ended up with was an apricot sponge and icing all over my arms. I’m
beginning to think that when I have a house of my own I will be one of those people who
always has something baking on the off-chance that someone will pop in. By 'one of those people' I mean a grandma.
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| Icing sugar on my skirt, just to prove I made them myself. |
I'll post again soon and hopefully about something a little less bake-y and a little more interesting!
