Yums!
Admin1 is reading The Ghost Riders of Ordebec by Fred Vargas and Admin2 is reading The 22 Murders of Madison May by Max Barry.
We scored oh dear 8 on the GWQ.
Tag: cake
Chrismas
Happy Birthday Chris!
Admin1 is reading The Trawlerman by William Shaw (thanks Admin2!). Admin2 is reading Agency by William Gibson.
Happy Birthday Lee
Pizza, pigs in blankets, eggs, salad and a pink fruity cake. And the family to enjoy it with at a distance.
Admin1 is reading Oranges and Lemons by Christopher Fowler and Admin2 is finishing reading The Russian Interpreter by Michael Frayn.
We scored 10.5 on the GWQ.
Like the Circles That You Find
Pizza followed by trifle!
Admin2 is rereading My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time by Liz Jensen.
We scored FOURTEEN on the GWQ.
Raspberry Pie
A damn fine pie made with raspberries from our garden. Admin1 is rereading Fleshmarket Close by Ian Rankin and admin2 is reading Bryant and May on the Loose by Christopher Fowler; a damn fine book.
We scored 11.5 on the GWQ.
Last of the Cherries
There were a fair number of cherries on the tree until yesterday when they were suddenly snatched away by wind/squirrels/birds. Here are the last two survivors on Admin1’s lovely cake incorporating multicoloured glace cherries from Gez.
Admin1 is reading The Falls by Ian Rankin. Admin2 is reading Ten-Second Staircase by Christopher Fowler.
Happy Birthday Chris
A coffee cake with Tia Maria icing and lots of presents. Today is the hottest day of the year: 33.3 °C with plenty of sunshine: 12.5kWh. Admin1 is reading Seventy-Seven Clocks by Christopher Fowler.
Happy Birthday Dave!
And Eid Mubarak too!
How sad to be just one kilometre away and unable to taste the cake, especially as we made it.
Admin1 is reading The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths.
Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries
Admin1 made this delicious cherry and almond cake. Thank you.
Admin2 is reading Gallowstree Lane by Kate London; compelling. All KL’s books have been good; too bad she’s only written three.
Happy Birthday Gez
Thanks to the next doors for transportation to the isolation celebration.
Admin2 is reading Northern Lights by Philip Pullman.
International Womens Day
Women are not to be trifled with.
Admin1 is reading The Runaway by Ali Harper.
We scored 11.5 on the GWQ.
World Book Day
Today was our sunniest day this year: 3.769kWh
Happy Birthday Bob
Hip hip hooray, the Bobs is four today!
Despite the ongoing Storm Denis it was our sunniest day this year so far: 1.827kWh on the 3000th day of our solar panels.
Admin1 is reading Slow Motion Ghosts by Jeff Noon. Admin2 is reading The Fire Court by Andrew Taylor.
We scored 10.5 on the GWQ.
Raspberry Pie
Raspberries are red
Cream is white
Chocolate is sweet
And you are all right
Admin1 is reading Girl at Midnight by Katarzyna Bonda.
Happy Birthday Audrey
Two cakes!
Admin1 is reading Now You See Them by Elly Griffiths. Admin2 is reading Sewer, Gas & Electric by Matt Ruff (thx Admin1), a mad caper written in 1997 but set in 2023.
We scored 10.5 on the GWQ.
Cake
More birthday fun with a slap-up Chinese banquet, followed by a visit to Terror from the Skies
Admin2 is reading The Second Sleep by Robert Harris (thx Admin1), an engaging book set in a post-apocalyptic medieval theocracy where archaelology is anathema (he could have callled it A Canticle for Morgenstern).
We scored, um, 8 on the GWQ.
Mazel Tov Sarah and Ian
And props to Gez for these sublime vegan wedding cakes.
Admin1 is reading Tombland by CJ Sansom. Admin2 has been reading Normal People by Sally Rooney: boy meets/loses/finds again/loses again/finds again girl, rinse and repeat.
We scored 12 on the GWQ with a little help from Dave.
Pizza Cake
Admin2 made a pizza trifle with cake for base, jelly for sauce, custard for cheese and grapes, cherries and bananas for trimmings. It was disturbingly floppy.
Admin2 is reading The Nightwalker by Sebastian Fitzek; nightmare scenario.
Happy Birthday Dave
He got Theresa May’s resignation as a birthday present, spent the morning on the climate march and got into the Guardian.
and it was the sunniest day of the year: 12.89kWh.
Admin1 is playing Bioshock and Admin2 is reading Inhuman Resources by Pierre Lemaitre. What a lovely day.
Impasta
A spaghetti and meatballs (actually biscuit, truffles, jam and nuts) cake in honour of His Noodly Majesty the Flying Spaghetti Monster, bless his noodly appendages. It fooled the cat.
We had our sunniest April day ever (10.83kWh) and scored 10 on the GWQ.
Happy Birthday Gez
It’s also Mother’s Day and clocks changing.
This March was the second warmest and second sunniest since our records began.
We scored 12 on the GWQ!
Pancake Day
(We also had pineapple upside-down cake. It wasn’t meant to be upside down but it fell out of the oven.)
Admin1 is reading Shatter by Michael Robotham — involving, and very good. But also very harrowing. Admin2 is reading The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble; various aged intellectuals potter around and eventually push up daisies, with scenic tours of the flood plains of England and the geology of the Canary Islands.
Pudding of the Day: Rhubarb tart
This pie was enjoyed by us, Gez, Dave, Audrey, Bob and Lena.
Admin1 is reading Broken Ground and Admin2 is reading Insidious Intent (a book with a stupid ending and a postcript not to spoiler it by revealing the stupid ending), both by Val McDermid. We scored 11 on the GWQ.
Happy Birthday Bob
A cake with traffic on top and stripes inside.
Admin1 is reading The Drowning Man by Michael Robotham. Admin2 is reading Broken Ground by Val McDermid. We scored 11.5 on the GWQ.
Happy Birthday Audrey!
It’s great to be eight with a cake on your plate!
Admin1 is reading Hall of Mirrors by Christopher Fowler.