The cake

I took the Christmas decorations down today - for the first time ever I was really reluctant to do it, no idea why but I was.  Anyway they are all packed away in the loft for another year.

 

Last night's meal went very well, I am almost disappointed to say that granny said nothing  - I think she was more nervous than Aaran was lol. The meal was very nice and a good evening had by all. 
As for the birthday cake, well......................it was amazing even though I say it myself.  So light and fluffy, I couldn't believe it.  To look at, it was probably the worse cake I have ever done.  It was browner than I would of liked, my chocolate covered orange segment didn't look as pretty as they could have and the chocolate drizzling had a lot to be desired, but apart from all that, it was good.  It was orange and poppy seed.  It should have been vanilla but I had run out - hence the orange!! It was a combination of two recipes one from the net and the other from the flour bag lol

The birthday girl about to blow her candles out.

Nothing special today

Yesterday I blogged about my beetroot smoothie  Eileen asked me what was in it, so here you go

1 small beetroot, 1 large banana, 1.5 cups of water, juice of half a lemon, 1 mandarin, 1 small apple, then zapped in the blender. 

 

Today I made my first gluten free cake, for Amanda as her birthday cake ready for tomorrow, I can't believe my little girl will be 19 - where does the time go.  It looks OK but guess we won't know until it is cut and tried, fingers crossed.

It has been horrid outside all day so I have not ventured out other then to take my daily photo and I will go out later to work.  So having baked the cake, I cleared out another two kitchen cupboards and washed the floors.  Then I have been over on my photo blog writing this post all about finding your motivation again. Please pop over and have a read if you fancy. 
 

Here are some bulbs starting to poke their heads through the water logged ground.