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[kathyh]

Trying to get back to doing this.

What I Just Finished Reading
The Shortest Way to Hades by Sarah Caudwell. I was actually in the mood for a Dorothy L. Sayers but I had this book by Sarah Caudwell on my Kindle. I have read it before but it was so long ago that it was like rediscovering it for the first time. The best way I can describe it is as an

Comments

[spikereader]

I'm really going to miss Bake Off - and am glad Frances won, though at the start I declared confidently that it would definitely be either Ruby or Kimberley!

That jaffa drizzle cake looks tasty - I've done lemon ones but might give this orange one a try for a change. (And I cheat with the liners for loaf tins - Lakeland do special shaped ones!).

[kathyh]

I've been very tempted by those loaf tin liners. If I baked a bit more I would certainly by some but at the moment just ramming the paper in seems to work. The jaffa drizzle cake is very tasty but I think I agree with some of the commenters that it needed more orange, but J thought it was OK as it was.

I thought Ruby would go to pieces under the pressure and Kimberley's calm would see her through. Frances's cake was by the best though so I'm glad she won. I'm going to miss Bake Off hugely and I do hope they don't change it when it moves to BBC1

[mrs_leary]

Wow! I am totally intrigued by the Sarah Caudwell book that doesn't specify the gender of Hilary Tamar... The first (at the very least!) is going right onto my To Read List!

Thanks, as always, for providing some interesting responses to interesting books. :-)

[kathyh]

My pleasure :)

Not knowing the gender of the narrator has a really interesting effect because you look at all their interactions slightly differently. It's quite disconcerting at first until you get used to it. When I first read the books I defaulted to thinking Hilary was a woman because I know several female Hilary's, but there is absolutely no way to tell from the text.

[nympha_alba]

That cake looks really good! Chocolate and orange, yum.

[kathyh]

It was good and, even more importantly, easy to make. Win win in my book :)

[ljs]

Yay for reading and baking! :)

I have a lot of Brits on my twitter feed, and my goodness, GBBO excites a lot of comment. (And I loved Tom Mison --Ichabod on Sleepy Hollow --tweeting that he was in love with Mary Berry. ;))

[hugs]

[kathyh]

GBBO is huge here now. Its viewing figures have grown so much in the four years it's been on that it's moving to BBC1 for the next series.

Mary Berry is very stylish. I'm not surprised Tom Mison is in love with her :)

[brunettepet]

Now I'm off to see if GBBO is posted on youtube. I loved the wonderful sewing competition you pointed out and some kind person uploaded the episodes week after week.

[kathyh]

GBBO is totally addictive. Once you start watching it you can't stop. I hope you find it because I'm sure you would love it.

[brunettepet]

I was watching episode 1 and am only twenty minutes in and already love it. A baker's dozen contestants! Charming.

[kathyh]

Yay! Glad you found it. That may be the episode where they all tried to cut their fingers off so beware the blood!

Some of the things they make are absolutely spectacular and sometimes they make the same sort of silly mistakes as I do, which is encouraging :)