Cookery lesson

My youngest son decided he was going to teach me how to make chocolate Easter nests. They had made some on the last day of school and he was keen to pass on his experience.

First we had to go on a shopping trip to buy mini eggs and the correct sort of cereal. Knowing his mother is a chocoholic he never even considered the fact that we would need to add this to the list.

Next he explained that it wouldn't be as easy to make them at home as it was at school due to the fact that we didn't have the proper equipment (eh????!!!??). But he would manage with the meagre kitchen available.

After a lot of melting, crushing and mixing we were ready to arrange the chocolate nest in the case. A job I was allowed to do under his instruction. On seeing that I was not only capable of doing this but actually managed to put a dent in the middle for the eggs. He looked at me with a puzzled expression and asked if I had made them before. I meekly replied that I had made them when I was little and that it was his Gran that taught me how to make them. He shook his head gravely and said...

'Yes Mum, but that was in the olden days. We do them differently now.'