Happy First Day of Autumn!

I walked into town yesterday and had my first Pumpkin Spice Latte of the year:


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In the spirit of being Christmassy I made gingerbread a few days ago while watching The Santa Clauses. It was a pretty good series, fun and silly and just what you'd expect from something like that. It wasn't perfect but I enjoyed it. Although I do now want to rewatch the films as well and I'm not sure I'm going to have time for that ( Read more... )

I went out for a meal with friends on Saturday. There were eight of us in total, including some people I don't think I've seen since Emma's wedding six and a half years ago, and it was lovely to all be together again. You can tell we're getting old though. Conversation ranged from babies (Jennie is pregnant, so it was topical), to the best car ( Read more... )

I did a bit of baking on Friday and made this Gin-Soaked Blackberry & Apple Cheesecake Crumble. I hadn't planned to document the stages, but once I got to the blackberry layer I thought it looked so pretty I had to take a picture:

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Since my last entry I have mostly been watching Bones, building jigsaws, playing Monkey Island, and rewatching Lois & Clark...

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It's FRIDAY! Possibly even CAPSLOCK FRIDAY if I decide I want to revive this tradition from eight years ago ( Read more... )

Today was a wonderfully healthy and productive day in which I ate popcorn, watched The Dark Knight Rises, and made snickerdoodles ( Read more... )

Today I have been mostly making cakes. I've baked a dozen cupcakes to take into work tomorrow for the Macmillan Coffee Morning and now I just have to hope I don't poison everyone. I was going to make butterfly cakes, but took the easy way out and just iced them instead. Still, I think they look pretty good:


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I should probably have made this entry a week ago but, as we've already established, I am absolutely rubbish at updating Livejournal in a timely fashion, so here we go ( Read more... )

Day two of my London Adventure saw us baking biscuits and watching Eurovision. I absolutely love Eurovision and think it is one of the greatest events of the year, representing the pinnacle of human achievement in the modern age. Paul does not share this viewpoint. But I made him watch it anyway ( Read more... )