GBBO - Are you ready to bake?

[SheHasAWildHeart]

Guardian article on all this year's contestants www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/aug/16/the-great-british-bake-off-meet-the-2016-contestants

Oh I love Viennese whirls.

Not a fan of Kate's old-ladyesque fleece.

I had no idea there was more than one McGann.

That piping looks very theraputic

not the microwave!!

I'm about 10 mins behind, but just eurgh at lavender & bergamot in a biscuit!

Thanks, Noel. I recognise a few faces now x

stupid technical recipes that leave out half of the important information and it just becomes a game of who can guess best

not the dodgy accents, Mel...

claralane I think Kate is wearing her Brownie uniform. No doubt made on a loom ON HER FARM.

Oh dear there are some flat whirls there

Oooh, some of these don't look good....

Just spat my tea out when Mel asked if Rav wanted her to hold his bag with her warm hands.

There are some shockers there.

I did not know that Viennese Whirls have jam in.
I now do, and I want some.

They look terrible

Oh Benjamina, won't you be my friend

Still don't really know what McGanns are. Are they a boyband?

Think Benjamina is doing well this week.

biscuit week really is causing problems!

Wiggo's Whirls for the win?

Ghost I wonder if she wove her own nurses uniform too

I think Vals nailed it again!

Benjamina and Kate have done well.

How does Bob Marley like his doughnuts Zebra?

Loving Benjamina's eye make up this week. Not a fan of Louise or Val, think one of them will be off soon.

Casting is so important for this show isn't it? The need to be competent but not too good, likeable, not over-confident etc.

If they picked a dozen ultra-competitive, super-serious alpha males who argued with the judges & spat the dummy when they lost, the show wouldn't work at all.