hello, Lisa I would have never found you based on your clues, luckily you found me
dd1's birthday tomorrow, and today we had to bake a cake to bring to school tomorrow. I opted for a simple victoria sponge, because how can you go wrong with that, right? Wrong. First, i bought something that i thought was self raising flour, prepared the dough, looked weird, put in the oven, 15 minutes later as nothing was happening i actually read the bloody label and discovered it was some kind of weird "just add water" cake mix
The realised i was out of flour. so went begging the old lady upstairs (who apparently has a lesbian lover, good on her she's 82 and until 3 years ago was climbing the Mattelhorn every year). Tried again. second attempt barely rose, but by the stage it had to do.
we iced it with butter icing, yellow at dd1's request, and sprinkled pink thingies on top. it looks like something a 4 year old would bake, except a 34 year old did Oh and it's basically 40% butter, 40% sugar, 20% other things, so not exactly healthy.
Today not my day. I went to the supermarket this morning (where i got everything except flour- doh), and had to go in and out of a parking spot 4 bloody times before i managed to get in passably. I felt like an idiot. The backseat philosopher (dd1) said "Mummy, I think you need to practice more, you are not very good you know"