Domestic goddess? - I think not

DD's school held a summer fair today but she was already entered for a swimming gala. The school asked for parents to held man stalls etc. I didn't offer anything for obvious reasons but when another letter was sent out saying that the fair might not go ahead due to a lack of parental support I offered to bake some cakes.

I was really busy yesterday so didn't start until very late.


lots of cakes

First to be finished was the


Crunchy Top Lemon cake

followed by the


Iced Orange sponge

Then a wait whilst the chocolate cake cooled before it could be iced.


Death by Chocolate

Whilst it was cooling I threw together some chocolate cornflake buns with a bit of peppermint essence & named them


After Eight Clusters

DD was gutted that she couldn't have any chocolate cake but I did save her two clusters.

But don't get the wrong idea & presume that I'm some sort of Domestic Goddess - not at all. Our house is in the process of being extended by DH (since July 04) & things are all over the place. I do my best but sometimes it's so depressing that I don't have the inclination to clean it up.

DD did really well in her gala this afternoon & came home with 3 medals - 2x 4th & 1x 6th. She'd never swum 200m backstroke before & came 4th in her age group. There were 6 girls in her age group that swum it but 2 were disqualified so she did really well (it's REALLY easy to get disqualified in competitive swimming). She also beat a girl who wins everything, in the 100m breaststoke, by a full 2 seconds. So she got to chose dinner tonight - Take Away pizza with
a cheese stuffed crust, garlic bread & chips.

Last week I mentioned that DD racing up to the loo fell on the bare stairs & hurt her legs - look at the state of them 6 days later.


My DD's bruised legs

She's insisted on wearing a short skirt all week to school as it's warm - I'm worried people are going to think that we've beaten her up. DH has been calling her the Zebra