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Would you confess your cake had made the hole? Please be honest!

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CakeHoleinRoof · 04/04/2020 19:19

Name changed for this as It's extremely outing! because It's bizarre, mainly Pom bears, Mexican House Thief, Penis Beaker etc.

So I currently live with my ex partner. This is recent-I moved back in with him to save money in order to buy a house (obviously I can't do that for now Sad ).

We get on okay, but he was a terrible partner when I was with him.
Heavy drink problem (which he managed to keep secret for far too long!), lies, unable to manage finances, a whole barrage of dishonesty about his circumstances. It was horrible, so many tears and sleepless nights on my part as I'd really thought he was for me before then, but it was years ago and I have grown up a lot now.

This definitely bears some relevance to how I treat him now though. I don't have much respect for him admittedly as it took me a long time to rebuild my life when we broke up some years ago. I'm not horrible to him or anything but I am not overly nice. Had I done this to anyone else I'd have been mortified, ad definitely confessed and paid for damages.

We both own the house together.

Some time ago I was baking a cake. I didn't realise the flour had gone off, so the cake was inedible. I decided to chuck it out for the birds.

Amongst other twatty things my ex had done, he built a HUGE outhouse/outbuilding in the garden. I'd previously had the garden lovely albeit small and he built this thing which takes up about 90% of the garden. It's massive. I decided to chuck the cake on top of it.

But it broke the (corrugated plastic) roof of the structure. It made a hole in it.

This was a month or so ago and he has only just noticed. He came into my room this morning holding a hammer and said 'Whose is this hammer?!' I said I don't know, not mine? And he said he thought someone had thrown it into the garden and this is what has broken the roof. He wants to report it to the police as well.

He is not overly upset about it, and has fixed the hole now.

I kind of want to confess because I don't want him wasting police time.

I kind of don't though.

Would you? Honestly?

YANBU -Don't confess, no point and he's a knobhead anyway
YABU-Confess, It's the correct thing to do.

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CakeHoleinRoof · 09/12/2025 16:45

DoubleHardBastard · 09/12/2025 14:26

@CakeHoleinRoof Just come across your thread and now wondering if recent ex moved out and now, 3 years on, if another ex moved in?

(Apologies for the resurrection again)

😆
My two exes (boozy lazy male one and more recent-ish female one) both still co-habiting harmoniously!

I have had a relationship since then, but I didn't put her in the house when we unfortunately split up. Maybe this is a business opportunity I am missing!

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DoubleHardBastard · 09/12/2025 14:26

@CakeHoleinRoof Just come across your thread and now wondering if recent ex moved out and now, 3 years on, if another ex moved in?

(Apologies for the resurrection again)

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CakeHoleinRoof · 29/08/2022 17:33

@Somethingneedstochange I posted a photo of it for clarification a few pages back! He won't have got planning permission. Well if he did I'll show my a$$ in Harrod's window.

@MyDogandClowns I didn't actually!
I got the £ elsewhere for my house now. I like to forget about the house this happened at if I am honest (I still pay mortgage/repairs obviously).

@MrsJBaptiste I am the same, if it smells okay I'll eat it (as a rule) but gone off flour tastes awful.

@oakleaffy I can believe that about the cakes/tarts! My Mother (who I love to death!) bakes pastry that could act as plasterboard.

Regarding the loo, he's done it more than once. The time I referred to was when I got up to go for a wee in the early hours and sat on it

@BrownStripePJ it was the workshop. It does possibly look too strong (well it must have, I didn't intend to break it!) but.. Well it wasn't. Grin

@eldora it probably was. I just hate food waste. And had nowhere else to put it outside given he's taken the whole garden up.

@MrsRobinsonsHandprints Rehoming Centre Grin I don't send new takers around for them! (In his case I'd not dislike anyone so much). It is a bit of an odd one admittedly. But ex contacted me as we're still friendly, was struggling to find a house she could afford, I suggested it and they've met before and both got on okay. It works. I don't think I'll be putting any more ex partners there-It's only a 2 bed anyway Grin .

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MrsRobinsonsHandprints · 29/08/2022 13:21

no, he has his own room, my most recent ex (amicable break up, female) now has the bedroom I used to have. They're getting along okay, she moved in not longer after I left.

I'm sorry but this raises more questions than it answers.

So is cake shed house a rehoming centre for partners you have given up?

eldora · 29/08/2022 11:43

I think this must have been one of those threads that was funny at the time, because I think throwing a whole cake on to a roof (flimsy or otherwise), is a spectacularly stupid thing to do.

JinglingHellsBells · 29/08/2022 11:05

I am not sure if you've ever experienced a scone, but they're quite pliable things.

I have certainly eaten a scone many times, but I've never 'experienced' one. That sounds intriguing.

The ones I've eaten are not pliable at all. They are crumbly and usually slightly dry, hence the liberal application of jam and cream.

chillipenguin · 28/08/2022 21:41

Thanks for the update!

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CakeHoleinRoof · 28/08/2022 21:41

They were abrasive and it worked. I am not sure if you've ever experienced a scone, but they're quite pliable things.

It's up to you if you believe that. The photo I posted has the set-up but obviously I can't post proof, I couldn't even have done that at the time

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JinglingHellsBells · 28/08/2022 21:35

I don't buy into your idea that a scone can be used even to clean a wide necked flask @CakeHoleinRoof

Your story is 'entertaining' up to a point but did any of this really happen? Hmmmm😂

Clarinet1 · 28/08/2022 21:18

I’m pleased for you!

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CakeHoleinRoof · 28/08/2022 20:52

@RightOnTheEdge
Thank you :)

@Hawdyerwheesht from memory he sort of did the one knock then open thing. I was just sitting putting my make up on so wasn't so bothered.

@Belle999 really? Even though he paid for all materials and did all the labour? I guess it is..I am not quite able to process that but yes it is isn't it? I wasn't living there at the time he did it, knew nothing of the building until I visited some time after he had built it.

@Chezandme123 I retrieved the cake after getting over the initial shock of the hole having been caused by it. I am lucky he didn't notice me clambering about!

@MrsRobinsonsHandprints
no, he has his own room, my most recent ex (amicable break up, female) now has the bedroom I used to have. They're getting along okay, she moved in not longer after I left.

@Somethingneedstochange sorry, see photos!

I very much doubt he had planning permission. He just isn't the type to have anything of that nature cross his mind. Yes, he got rid of everything I'd planted. Plants, flowers, tree, rocks, lawn and just made the monstrosity in their place.

@Novum thank you-I've not read the whole of this thread in long time but I am pretty sure I didn't claim it to be a cartoon-type perfectly symmetrical hole, just a bog-standard hole :)

@JinglingHellsBells I really don't understand that. Scones are pretty pliable , a few inches across and flask necks are various sizes but many being large enough for a person to drink from like a cup. 🤔

@Clarinet1 I do! Much larger and nicer and no random buildings popping up Grin

@KnickerlessParsons A)That would be very enlightening if it wasn't completely untrue and B) Yes.

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BrownStripePJ · 28/08/2022 10:38

🤣

BrownStripePJ · 28/08/2022 10:38

@CakeHoleinRoof which structure had the hole in it? Was it the lean to? The other roofs look too strong to have a cake hole

Kerrrmieee · 28/08/2022 10:24

If the police do turn up just casually say

"Oh if I'd known you were coming, I'd have baked a cake"

🤣

TheLadyofShalott1 · 28/08/2022 10:23

DameFanny · 04/04/2020 20:07

Well done for retrieving the evidence. This is from Terry Pratchett's Feet of Clay Grin

@DameFanny all I can say is thank you!
😊💐
I have read some of the Disc World books, but not that one, I will now do so.

Terry Pratchett had such a deliciously funny sense of humour. I know that they are completely different entities, but the only recent (stand-up, or sit down) comedian that I have found funny is Billy Connelly, he could make me howl with laughter, and Terry Pratchett's Disc World series will mainly make me chuckle - but not much else does these days except for my Grandchildren and Dog, so I don't underestimate chuckles - but occassionally his tales will elicit the odd howler too. So again @DameFanny thank you for that page xx

oakleaffy · 28/08/2022 10:17

@CakeHoleinRoof
Re your Ex. “Missing” the loo-
that IS believable!
Some men can be really hopeless in their “Aim”
From all orifi.
Gross🤢

oakleaffy · 28/08/2022 10:15

CakeHoleinRoof · 28/08/2022 08:27

Thank you. :) I'm not normally very bothered about things strangers think of me, but I really get flustered at being told I'm lying when I 100% know I'm not! :)

I'll happily post a photo of the loo after he 'missed' too if you like/if people don't believe that either Grin I'd probably get banned from mn

Thank-you, I only expected to be living there a month or so but pandemic. I'm the least house proud person you'll meet but honestly he was difficult to live with mess-wise. So glad I'm out of that!

@nettie434 we're still friendly with one another, I might suggest it 😉

Thank you, it was a tiny garden but I really did try to make it look nice. I enjoyed it for a time at least! :)

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Your pics show it is “ Beyond all reasonable doubt” true 😂

Our Mum used to make a large fruit cake ( delicious and rich) at Christmas but that weighed a lot, as they are so laden with heavy ingredients.

I could imagine a large fruit cake crashing through a plastic roof, even a “Successful “ one.

Years ago as a kid a friend’s mum allowed us to make jam tarts

The pastry was rather hard, the jam unpleasantly tarry and sticky.
I was hurt that parents didn’t eat them-But deliberately went to the shops for a commercial cake.
😂

MrsJBaptiste · 28/08/2022 10:08

KnickerlessParsons · 28/08/2022 09:35

A) flour doesn't go out of date
B) you made a cake so heavy it broke a hole in corrugated plastic? 🤔

Have you never eaten a cake made with out of date flour? Absolutely awful!

And I'm happy to eat anything that's out of date.

JinglingHellsBells · 28/08/2022 10:01

Even weevils!

JinglingHellsBells · 28/08/2022 10:00

KnickerlessParsons · 28/08/2022 09:35

A) flour doesn't go out of date
B) you made a cake so heavy it broke a hole in corrugated plastic? 🤔

Flour can get weavels in if it's very old.

MyDogandClowns · 28/08/2022 09:50

I don't know why people are doubting you op.
But what I want to know is, did you get your fair share from the house ?(to enable you to buy your current place)

KnickerlessParsons · 28/08/2022 09:35

A) flour doesn't go out of date
B) you made a cake so heavy it broke a hole in corrugated plastic? 🤔

Clarinet1 · 28/08/2022 09:33

Do you have a garden now? Hope so!

JinglingHellsBells · 28/08/2022 09:30

I can believe that! My mum used to bake wholemeal scones for 'health reasons'. My dad used to use them to clean out his flask after he'd been staying away for a week and all the tea had congealed inside them

He must have had a big flask to get a scone into it.

Somethingneedstochange · 28/08/2022 09:21

I've just realized this is an old post. So he removed that beautiful tree to build that monstrosity?😱🙈