I have wanted a kitchenaid stand mixer for a long time. I do a lot of baking, so it would be well used, but they are very expensive. So decided that I would work out when it was 400 days before my 30th birthday and start saving £1 a day, so I could splash out for my birthday.I did a wedding cake in January and kept aside the money I had been paid ( Read more... )

RosiePig doesn't like her medicine, even though its banana flavoured paediatric antibiotic liquid and she only has to have 0.4ml twice a day. The first couple of times she let us put the syringe in her mouth... but then hated the taste and tried to spit it all out! But she does like lettuce... and lettuce has lots of crinkly medicine holding curls ( Read more... )

My tutoring appointment was moved from Monday to Tuesday, so I had a lovely free evening tonight. And what does a Muffet do with a free evening after a busy day at work and an even busier weekend? She Bakes!!!


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Excited about my purchase of icing nozzles on Friday, I baked today. 24 plain cookies (using half the empire biscuits recipe from Hairy Bikers, Mum Knows Best) and 10 buns, 2 muffins (using Rachel Allen's Bake recipe ( Read more... )

It clouded over, and began to rain... big fat juicy raindrops, so I ran out, brought all the washing in and then it stopped raining. Now it looks cloudy, and everything is very nearly dry, so it won't be going back out ( Read more... )