CHRISTMAS IN THE MAKING

Don't do yesterday what you can put off until today, and thereby have less time and do the whole thing quicker. I work better under pressure! This photo was taken at 10:59am and the Christmas cake is still in the oven cooking at 4pm. Think it's about ready to come out because that bit in the middle is never going to rise to perfection. It smells heavenly........

..... which may be its only redeeming feature. After removing said cake from the oven and leaving it to cool, something akin to the San Andreas fault rippled and gaped open across the top, with a few secondary fault lines spreading off at angles, all though converging on the central oasis. Under a telescope there could be a miniscule hippopatamus squelching about in that bit.

Looks as though I will have to buy more marzipan to fill the void, unless the void becomes a flow of lava to the centre of the Earth. No just checked again, and the tectonic plates seemed to have ceased their journey.

And worse, the work colleague who gave me her Great Grandmother Mary's cake recipe several years ago, is abroad this Christmas and has not made her own cake ....and I said I'd save her some. I hope there's enough worth saving!