in a right royal huff about cake recategorisation

[Slubberdegullion]

cor. I haven't done AIBU for an age, but I am I know I am (bu) and need some get some get a grips and bridge rebuilding tips.

For the last 3 years I have donated a decorated Christmas cake to the school Christmas fair raffle.

Last night I get an e-mail asking for its weight as THE PTA POWERS THAT BE have decided to put it into a 'guess the weight of the cake' comp and not in the raffle.

I know, OUTRAGEOUS isn't it? Man they have a nerve.

So I sent a few hoity e-mails.

Then I went to bed and had a lemsip and now have realised I am a giant precious-cake arse.

I think you need to sparkle silvery sparkly balls and so on all over it to err bowdlerise it - agree there is something a little disconcerting about its proud purpleness.

This may, of course, merely be my filthy mind. And TB's of course.

heh heh

I have silver balls

I have silver lustre

I'm not sure I have enough icing for no 2 though

gawd

The purple is fantastic. If it had been white icing I wouldn't even have given it a second look. The purple will draw people in!

yy to FU PTA in morse code in silver balls

slubber - on your profile photos - is your dog eating Bambi???

i agree week old fruit cake is suitable nursery fete fodder. I stuck with white icing and jely diamonds though - boring but hard to get wrong.

I'm so glad I clicked on this thread and found out what the actual topic was. From the title I feared that there was going to be some new Government initiative that made it more difficult to buy, make or eat cakes.

Fuck me. That cake is PURPLE

marzipan level is done with special message

DD3 loves it (she's 8). Perhaps you need to focus your promotion at the younger age group?

Give the PTA the cake. That'll teach them to mess with you tradition. Guess the weight of the cake, indeed. That is a summer fete event.

Ooh, xmas elves wearing purple and looking glum

obviously. Am out of practice.

Wow. When you say purple you really mean purple. I had imagined a frosty lilac....

Nice snowflakes though.

scupper their plans and present the cake at the very last minute with the weight iced on the top

lol @ weight iced on the top.

I'm late to the thread, but the cake looks LOVELY Slubber!

Yay for the PTA message as well!

I couldn't bring myself to put Fuck in a Christmas cake destined for some lovely family's sideboard. There must be serious karmic retributions for such an act, that and the dds were watching me.

Chippy you are right mate.

Weight guessing really is for summer fetes.

lol - love this thread!

AMAZING.

Love the purple. But then I did a sky blue Christmas Cake to everyone's horror delight.

I will wear my new tutu tomorrow in honour of your cake. It is too short notice to ask my auntie to send over one of her bluebell girl outfits of 2 ft feather headdress and rhinestone bra with ostrich trimmed pants from Vegas.

My bastard washing machine is frozen solid and the feed pipe has burst so i had to go to the laundrette. There's a nice little boutique near the laundrette

This is all providing that I am recovered from the plague which has led to our staff being felled this week and one poor teacher so ill she had to be collected by her mum.

I am more I'll than you. Guess the weight of my lymphocytes.

ill

Flippin iPad spellcheck.

Why do I keep reading PTA as pita? How many more years of this, slubbs? This is my very last One.

oooh my washing machine is frozen solid too bramble. it's a bit of a bugger isn't it.

I like the sound of your vegas outfit. v snazzy. Are you cellophaning too this year?

I am poorly. Not dangerously ill as in R4 land but I have a nasty cough

cake 2 is coming along nicely. There is a purple element to it

sharp intake of breath from me.

Slub, your cake is beautiful, man. I have drunk wine and I slugged it back because this has been a surreal week an all, but I still think your cake is a Beauty. A MArvel.

I LOVE the marzipan level.

Cake 2? How many mature fruit cakes do you have lying about the gaffe?