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It's International Nathaniel Appreciation Day!

Let us celebrate in the traditional manner: with the wearing of brightly coloured socks, the spreading of good cheer with the usual greeting, "Happy International Nathaniel Appreciation Day!", and - most importantly - the giving of small tokens of appreciation to your local international Nathaniel.

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It's my birthday!! Let the celebration commence!


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It's International Nathaniel Appreciation Day!

Have you hugged your local Nathaniel today?

The past few days have been fairly busy because it was my sister's birthday yesterday and I was making her a Cake of Epicness™. I made the actual cake on Sunday afternoon, decorated it on Monday morning and put the finishing touches to it Tuesday morning before she arrived.


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Friday morning: made toffee cake.
Saturday morning: decorated cake
Sunday afternoon: eat cake
( Official Nathaniel Day cake!!! )

Seeing as my birthday is rapidly approaching, I've spent the past few weeks wracking my brain trying to think of what presents I want. I don't tend to get much for my birthday, usually just a book or DVD from my mum and sister. At the moment there aren't any books or films that I want - pretty shocking, I know! - so it's been really difficult to ( Read more... )

Somehow it was decided that I would be making my sister a cake for her birthday which was on Sunday just gone. I wanted to make something suitably awesome and was discussing it with my mother; she suggested a cake she'd made in the past - a marbled cake made with two different colours of cake. That reminded me of the chequerboard cake which she'd ( Read more... )

We're on the edge of a four day weekend woohoo! I believe in some countries it's only a three day weekend which is terrible - is that the case for any of the non-UK types amongst my friends ( Read more... )