birthday cake makes me happy at the best of times - making my own birthday cake also makes me happy, making on in the style of my favourite German tile based strategy game ...
I have icing left over, I may yet attempt meeple covered cup cakes...
(I also had an awesome birthday, lovely presents and a fantastic night out in Stafford - Pete and I are off to Liverpool to to theatre and a swanky hotel and then it's BCN next week)
Thanks everyone for all the Birthday wishes and cards, I'm off to eat more cake for breakfast
... Had the first of two weekend open days in Feb (there's a bunch of Wednesdays ones too) and it's deep in Interview season. Today consisted of 2 very bouncy talks on our awesome portfolio of awards, a big mac meal wolfed down in a couple of mins and between us we interviewed around 40 students (and some of them were very, very good - next years intake is looking awesome) Not much else, Pete has the Bear & Pheasant tonight so I'm going to put my feet up, watch The Clone Wars DVD that turned up and relax a bit. I'm currently full of chocolate, marshmallows and white citrus tea, having watched the last part of The Art of Russia - making me want to go back to Russia and wishing I'd have been a bit freeier too explore when I was there. One day I'll go back, take Pete, learn to tell the difference between sour cream and mayonnaise and stay away from the cabbage dumplings, especially for breakfast. But it's been a very busy week - got invited down to an awes