The pier before and after…

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Major landmark burns down

I’m still in a state of shock… I was woken this morning by a weird crackling noise & sirens coming from outside. For a while the noise sort of combined with my dreams… but as soon as our power went off and the baby monitor started beeping I was leaping out of bed.
As I headed [...]

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Birthday cakes and other bakes… recipes

My pal Naomi, her other half Mark & their little boy Josh all moved to Devon yesterday
It hasn’t really sunk in yet that they’ve gone… I expect that will happen over the next few weeks… More cake was needed to ease the sorrows so a variation of the chocolate cake was created. We [...]

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Birthday cakes and other bakes…

The last 10 days have been full of making multiple cakes for lots of very happy recipients…
First I was helping my friend Lisa with the cake for Jorge’s 2nd birthday. A week last Saturday night we baked 4 x 6 inch square lemon sponges which Lisa then filled with lemon curd on sunday They [...]

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The latest on Haggis…

I thought It was about time I did another crochet related post… So I thought you’d all like to see how Haggis is coming along.
I have to admit I am a bit behind schedule with where I wanted to be at this stage… but Finn ran a temperature of 102.5 and had a touch of [...]

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