
How to make a 6 layer cake – the sequel!
When it’s my children’s birthdays I always offer to make whatever cake they want. There is a Russian Roulette element to my baking, in that […]
When it’s my children’s birthdays I always offer to make whatever cake they want. There is a Russian Roulette element to my baking, in that […]
Yes I know bourbon biscuits are about 50p for a packet of 30 but it’s week two of the Easter holidays and I’m running out […]
The kids have been back at school for a week now but I am only just coming up for air. We celebrated the last day […]
So, it’s July. And the Law of Media decrees that we must turn our thoughts to Christmas. At least, this is the law if you’re […]
Remember I told you about our Christmas tradition of The Other Cake? Well, here’s the rest of its journey: First of all I got the […]
Salt and Caramel has asked bloggers to share their favourite Christmas traditions and recipes, so I thought I would share The Other Cake with […]
Dear School Thank you for your many letters, notes, emails and texts over the last few weeks. Since I have two children, I get all […]
You'd be astonished at how many people land on this blog after Googling "coach cakes". I guess they're looking for a recipe to honour their favourite sports professional. And they probably then go away disappointed, because the only real post on the subject is this one relating the theory (so far only proposed by me) that cake can be a useful tool in personal development.
But actually I do have a sideline in cakery. And today, in between two coaching sessions, one and a half blog posts, writing a feature, 1000 words of a book, two loads of washing, a flurry of emails and a ton of phone calls, I made a cake.
It is Son of Mine's 8th birthday, and he designed this amazing six layered beast:
…is that you have to blog about BlogCamp.
My day didn't start well when I realised too late that I was wearing the same blue top/black cardie/typewriter necklace combination I've got on in that picture on the right.
Holy crap, I've come as my blog I thought I am a 24 carat loser for sure. But then somebody came over and did the Be Seeing You peepy eye/hand gesture (as also modelled to the right) and said Is that you? So I did it back at them and said Yes it is.
Brilliant. My day brightened considerably from there.
And here are some of the things I learned at BlogCamp for starters:
When I’m coaching creative people they often complain that they’re great at starting things but not at finishing them. So they can come up with […]
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