Portmanteau Post!

[curiouswombat]

What have I been up to these past few days? Well on Sunday the children and I ran a cake stall at the end of church to celebrate the end of the academic year. There were some very nice cakes they had made with their families, and I took plain ones for them to decorate on the spot before we started. Then we set everything out before the end of

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[shirebound]

Result was lots of fun, easy maths, satisfied customers, and £110 that will be split between a local cancer charity and the all-ages mental health charity Isle Listen.

Fantastic! :)

D-d is such a lovely woman.

[curiouswombat]

I will definitely remember to do the same thing for any other Bake Sale, too.

She looks incredibly grown-up and professional in that picture. She is both, of course, but I am so used to the unmade-up version, wearing a T shirt with a slogan and a floppy hat to keep the sun off, who looks about 15 :)

[epiphyta]

Oooh, cake! I have no cake. I should correct that.

Owwww needles in knees do not want *draws knees in close*

Such a lovely colour on D-d, and the sandals are perfect!

[curiouswombat]

Cake is an essential food group. Well it is to me, anyway :)

To be honest I hardly noticed the needle going in at all - it was something of an anti-climax as I had expected it to be more impressive :)

It is a good colour. I was so pleased to see the vintage sandals in use. She said they were 'pretty comfortable as these things go,' which I absolutely understood.

[adafrog]

Glad the knee went okay.
Beautiful picture.

[curiouswombat]

Thank you. The knee injection was remarkably simple - less dramatic than I had expected really!

[seaivy]

a beautiful red dress perfect with gold evening sandals - and a beautiful woman!!!

very clever with your cake sale
i miss bake sales!!!
the older women who made the wonderful cakes are gone
younger women don't bake and think having a sale is too much trouble

[curiouswombat]

I have to admit that it always surprises me when she actually looks her age :)

Some of our best bakers have died, or moved away to be nearer family, in the past 5 years. I'm not sure we will ever cope with the massed baking we used to do, again. But there are young women baking, and both young women and grandmas baking with children, so we do have a younger generation coming up!

[kathyh]

I have cake envy and also garden envy as ours is a weedy mess at the moment. D-d looks wonderful in that lovely dress and vintage sandals :)

[curiouswombat]

There were some very nice cakes - I took chocolate cake home and it was very good.

Putting down the membrane and bark chippings is keeping the weeds down - but the vegetable patch is full of green stuff at ground level that clearly have nothing to do with herbs, peas or blueberries - I pull out a bit now and again but I think they are destined to become 'green fertilizer'.