Well I’ve been busy, okay? My two final Open University courses started at the beginning of Feb as I mentioned before, and I’ve spending most of my spare time completing coursework. I still have a final project to complete for one of the courses which I’ll get out of the way in the next week or so, then that just leaves two more pieces of coursework to be completed in May / June / July… and that’s all.
In other news… Joseph / Joe / Joey / Joey-joe-joe has had his passport photo taken ready for our trip to France later this year. He looks a bit gormless but it is an accurate likeness. The ferry and stopover hotels are all booked and I hope to have Disney all sorted by the end of the week. We have our new Euro GB style number plates ready for the Oli/Tor-bus and I really must remember to order the European travel kit things with the torch, triangle, first aid kit and stuff in…
My copy of ‘All Aliens Like Burgers’ arrived on Friday too but I haven’t had chance to read it yet. I’m saving that for April when there’s a natural gap in coursework… I’m struggling to get chance to read my monthly subscription of PC Pro magazine too so a full book will be more of a challenge.
And finally… I promised Poppy that I’d make her a rainbow cake for her birthday (no, not gay pride), which isn’t until June. But considering I’d not got a plan together on how I was going to make this, I thought it best to perform a test run. Vicky is in the process of decorating the bathroom this weekend so I thought what better way to keep the children occupied than a bit of baking. So here’s how it goes: I made a mega batch of cake mixture… 300g of marg/sugar/flour and 6 eggs. I split the mixture 
in to six portions and added food colouring as needed to each one.. Purple, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange and Red (I had to mix some of them myself). Then I spooned each colour in to a cake tin, one colour on top of the other, and did the same for a second cake tin. Bake for 45 minutes and turn them out….
Finally we sandwiched the two together with blue butter icing, then covered it in more butter icing to finish.. Mmmmm count those E numbers. Poppy then decorated the cake with an entire tub of pink sprinkles. I shall learn from my mistakes in making this, firstly I will put the red in first and make the rainbow up from that direction, because it bends the wrong way in my cake. Secondly, I might just make one massive cake instead of two so the rainbow effect is more pronounced. I will also put more effort in to the next one to make it look more like a birthday cake. Will have to get a new icing piper for that methinks seeing as the last one fell apart.
I’ll leave you with these last two photos of the finished product, even if Poppy does look a little unsure what she’s let herself in for.
Love the photos. Please can I have one of Joey and also one of Poppy with her cake for the album?
“because it bends the wrong way”
Err, is that a typo? Because you said you weren’t making gay cake!
Blah, I’m with Poppy on this one – pass the sick bag please……