It has been raining for hours here, it’s beautiful. The tomato and corn plants are very happy!
Now for the Christmas cake saga. I didn’t read the recipe properly, so ended up with 2 cake mixes, not one as intended. No big deal, I just separated the mixtures into 2 lots. The first lot I discovered I had used too much self raising flour (sometimes I do wonder whether my brain is fully functional!) The cake turned out light, a little crumbly, but perfectly acceptable for morning tea munching.
The second cake presented with more of a hitch in the form of a malfunctioning oven. My 2 year old Westinghouse decided to go out continuously during the baking process, I had to keep lighting it to try and maintain the temperature. After about 5 hours of this, the cake was done! This is the cake you see above, so despite the oven it seems to have turned out better than the first one. Now I’m waiting for a technician to come so that I can fling money at him and get the oven fixed.
That makes this years tally – one dead washing machine, one dead hot water system and a broken oven.
Next adventure – Christmas Pudding (at least I don’t need the oven for that!)