~ Got up early today, especially to have time to ice two birthday cakes and marzipan the Christmas cake, and then had more time than I thought because, having successful iced the two birthday cakes I remembered, after looking for it, that we had thrown the board for the Christmas cake out last year. Still, it gave me a chance to catch up on recent day’s exploits in my journal.
~ Late morning, I headed out into the winter sun to the drive to Emma’s parents for her birthday lunch. After a scrummy caserole meal of pork chops, with meat that was just falling off the bone, we sung happy birthday and Emma had her cake…
…and then