Delicious

My youngest son is a hugely talented baker and pâtissier who often brings me a variety of cakes, sourdough and pastries for us to share. No matter how determined I am to resist I just don’t :-))) This little selection includes my favourites - frangipan, brown butter cakes, plum and orange polenta cake. He’d brought them after my grim news at the weekend. With all three kids and partners here the cakes didn’t last long… Will he bring something delicious for my birthday today? He’d better!

I’m enjoying the continuing electoral humiliation of the Tory government, it’s years and years overdue. Listening to the results crawl in makes me hopeful that Labour will form the next government. I say this in full recognition of Labour’s serious faults and blindspots - their insane reaction to Gaza and short-sighted rolling back of green policies to name two. But we must get the Tories out or there will be nothing left.