Your Day (apart from gardening) - what took place?

Off cake tasting later today! My diet is failing horrifically We're having a "naked wedding cake", a load of cupcakes and a 3 tier pork pie at the wedding.

For the cupcakes we have to choose our favourite 3 flavours out of 6. White chocolate and raspberry, banoffee, red velvet, chocolate fudge and 2 others.

 

From that list banoffee and red velvet would be in my final 3 lol have fun hope they are all lovely

 

I'd have them all but my wife-to-be gave me the look

 

Lol boooooooooooooooo.

I would have all of them too lol

 

Can I bring you along to the cake tasting? I feel 2 against 1 might help me get more cupcakes into my diet

 

Well im not going to say no to free cake now am i lol

 

Well time got away from me and we had to set off pretty promptly so I couldn't pick you up. Luckily we settled on Chocolate Fudge, Bannoffee, Carrot cake (very spicy) and lemon. We couldn't decide 3 out of these 4 so we've just decided to get more cupcakes and have all the flavours

 

Oh there was carrot cake that would if been my number three for sure

 

My bro did the chilli ME challenge yesterday and it was totally anti climatic.



Hes going to do a hotter chilli with one of his nominees

Altho my crochet umbrella pot is looking quite good and the plants are happy

Also went out shopping to get some box canvas and board canvas to try out some drawing experiments

 

Yesterday i spent the day designing my brothers bathroom. I do love having a reason for getting out my set square and scale ruler. We managed to re organise the layout so he has more space and can fit in a seperate bath and shower which was brilliant. The main difference was changing the direction the door opened as it wasnt utilising the space on offer.

He also bought round his video if his chilli challenge number two with the dried scotch bonnet.



His reaction made me laugh a fair amount. Stupidly he wants to do it again lol lots of his work colleagues donated as well which is lovely.

 

Mr Kandy has gone back over to his dad's house to sort out some rusty/wood wormy garden tools that his sister is hoping to Auction off next weekend at one of these steam weekend do's but I am not holding my breath?I told him he won't be home tonight until 6pmish which will make another ten hour day but he hopes not

And me,this is what i am plodding my way through that we picked yesterday at the lottie.I couldn't be bothered to weigh them but you can see roughly how many there are..l '

 

Woah!!! That is a lot!!!!!

 

Thanks Dips,I am ploughing through them and keep stopping to do other things like hanging out washing and having lunch and have the telly on in the back ground as the silence can get deafening it makes my shoulders and neck ache though so will be glad when this lot has all gone

PS,it is only one trug full But i have taken two photos to show the height and depth of the beans.Am freezing them as well and have already put some aside for Mr Kandys dinner when he gets back home

 

I had a somewhat reflective time visiting mum at the care home. She was asleep when I arrived. I didn't want to disturb her, since often she awakes in physical pain, so I looked around her rented room that was filled with her memorabilia....

There is a nice photo of her (aged around 50), full thick head of black hair, sitting and smiling proudly on the balcony of her Italian flat. A much later digitalised photo on a birthday card is on her 95th, this January, still smiling, sparse hair but still "in the room" at that stage and able to get downstairs (i.e. out of her room) with the aid of a zimmerframe. And now, here in bed, she is bedridden, all skin and bone, hardly any hair, barely here mentally...and soon, not even that. I had to stop that thought and leave. I don't need to face that yet.

Nature can have a way of softening the ageing process. Since she has advanced dementia now, she is not having many thought processes so is not really affected by anything other than physical discomfort for which she is adequately treated.

We are grateful for the time she is still with us. ♥