Friday 27th February - progress on several fronts...

Cake; I've started a Nigella Bara Brith. Her recipe takes a few days from making the tea to soak the fruit, to making a pot of tea to accompany a slice. Today the fruit, sugar, mixed spice and tea is all soaking. Tomorrow I add the SR flour and egg and cook it, and glaze it with a little runny honey. Then, says Nigella, you should wait two days before you eat it! So that can be a Sunday afternoon treat. 

I think I'll have to make another cake to have a in the meantime. I'm debating between my yoghurt cake recipe, perhaps flavoured with ginger and marmalade.... or a lemon drizzle version.... decisions, decisions...

I've been working on the first patch for my QAYG quilt. Or I could call it a LAIG quilt... for Learn As I Go...

Finished?

Hmm... perhaps a little more...

Finished! This one is almost all running stitch. I don't love it... but it will be one of many so that's fine.

Lunch was another 'Nigella',  a version of her sardine and spaghetti recipe. I added extra veg; chopped red pepper, celery,  sundried tomatoes, and broccoli. With pasta wriggles instead of spaghetti. Pasta wriggles are easier to eat! But spaghetti actually works better.

The afternoon was admin, the sort I detest; s anning in stuff, copying stuff, filing stuff, emailing stuff. Huh. Grump. Whinge. Whine.

BB walked round to the corner shop for something and came back with a little tube of smarties for me!

So I was in a positive and cheerful mood to start teaching an arrangement of Danny Boy to a piano student- it was a good lesson!