Admin 1+2’s wedding anniversary: our furniture wedding, hence the allen keys and spirit level in the foreground and the room divider under construction in the background, and the trifle recycled from Admin1’s birthday cake. Seventeen years of food and books and weather and love.
Tag: cake
Happy Birthday Dave
Admin1 is reading A Song from Dead Lips by William Shaw. Admin2 is reading The Zig Zag Girl by Elly Griffiths.
Coffee of the day: Kenya AA Blue Mountain: bitter and citric but tasty.
We scored 10.5 on the GWQ, which we had saved for Dave’s birthday, thanks to Dave.
Happy Birthday Gez
Happy birthday, Easter and Passover to the best woman in the world.
Admin2 is reading The Ninth Grave by Stefan Ahnhem: a tricky problem for the maritally challenged father of a rebellious teenager Fabian Risk: three serial killers in two countries with the Israelis pulling some strings (careful now).
We scored an appalling 6 on the GWQ.
Happy Birthday Bobs
Car Parkin.
We scored 11 on the GWQ.
Valentine’s Day
And Ash Wednesday, and Chinese New Year’s Eve.
Pancake Day
Yums!
Admin2 is reading Trophy by Steffan Jacobsen: a hardboiled mercenary and infuriated cop on the trail of ruthless human-hunters.
Trifling with the Cake
So tasty it was eaten before it could be photographed.
Admin2 is reading History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund; an isolated backwoods teenager, as in Elmet, becomes entwined with posh incomers of the Christian Science persuasion.
We scored 11 in the GWQ.
Happy Birthday Audrey
A rainbow unicorn cake for the star of the week.
Admin1 is rereading The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North. Admin2 is reading Elmet by Fiona Mozley: a primal story of brutality and solidarity in the remote backwoods of modern West Yorkshire.
Don’t Swallow Litres, and Watch the Parkin Eaters
Storm Dylan failed to bring blowing winds, hard rain etc so here’s our New Year pudding. We scored 7 on the GWQ, bringing our yearly average to 8.92 which is an increment on last year.
Apple Pie Order
Apple pie recipe, using home-grown apples So good we made it twice.
Admin1 is reading Three Days and a Life by Pierre Lemaitre (a somewhat predictable tale of an unintended murder, but short and readable). Admin2 is reading From Darkest Skies by Sam Peters.
Cakes
Admin1 baked all these cakes to use up some leftover icing. Thx to Auds for the multiple sprinkles.
Admin1 is reading The Shadow District by Arnaldur Indridason — a multigenerational crime story, with added Icelandic folklore. Admin2 is reading Three Days and a Life by Pierre Lemaitre: guilt and shame upstaged and covered up by storms Lothar and Martin — for a good many years.
Khofi ya tsiku: Zambian: khofi pakhomo.
Happy Birthday Lee
A cake filled with love.
Admin1 is reading Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith. Admin2 is reading The Real-Town Murders by Adam Roberts: crime and conspiracy in a future where reality is optional for most.
Happy Birthday Chris
A coffee cake for a top-class human bean.
Admin2 is reading The Intrusions by Stav Sherez which was readable but somewhat implausible and formulaic.
Happy Birthday Dave
And happy United Nations Day everyone.
Today was our warmest day this year 26.4 °C but we confidently expect tomorrow to be better. [Update: Yes! 31.1 °C]
Hot Noodly Appendage Buns
Happy EPaster everybody.
Admin1 is rereading The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell.
We scored, er, 6 on the Guardian Weekend quiz.
Happy Birthday Gez
White chocolate, strawberries and orange juice. Yums.
Happy Birthday Bobs
Admin1 is reading Jigsaw Man by Elena Forbes. Admin2 is reading The Dying Detective by Leif GW Persson; man on last legs solves last case, entertaining and touching.
The Eaten Trifles
The fate of our cake.
Admin2 is reading State of Wonder by Ann Patchett, an evocative and adventuresome story set in the Amazon jungle. Admin1 is reading Behind God’s Back by Harri Nykänen
Our Thousandth Post
Admin1 baked a cake to celebrate and Admin2 iced it. And here is its exciting two-tone inside.
A sundog arrived to join the celebration. Some things are too wonderful to miss.
Happy New House
Happy new life G&A.
Admin2 is reading Fever of the Bone by Val McDermid. Admin1 is reading Ajax Penumbra 1969 by Robin Sloan.
Eat Your Heart Out
Our heart-shaped Valentine cake got eaten before it could be photographed and the leftovers got turned into an unrepeatable trifle with leftover blood orange jelly and leftover Pancake Day cream.
Admin2 is reading The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid.
We scored 4 in the Guardian Weekend quiz. Boo!
Happy Birthday Audrey
A rainbow cake on a windy day.
Admin1 is reading The Torment of Others by Val McDermid. Admin2 is reading Voices by Arnaldur Indriðason. We are watching Braquo Season 3.
Kaffee des Tages: Kicker (fruity and a touch sweeter than the others), and Pocket Coffee, a chocolate containing a shot of espresso. Do not bite!
Happy Birthday Lee
Another yummy cake. Admin2 is reading The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell which is spectacularly good until the supernatural battle in the penultimate section where the fireworks go off in all directions leaving the ending to ashes and burnt-out fuses.
Happy Birthday Chris
Happy Birthday Gez
Admin1 has been reading Necromancer by Robert Holdstock (which is sort of Nighthunter #0), started The Gallows Bird by Camilla Lackberg but realised after a chapter that he’d read it, and is now reading The Watcher by Charles Maclean.