Worm's World

I'm not sure I'll ever be able to stop looking at this: pic.twitter.com/uTLjJdSBLB — Geoff Lloyd (@GeoffLloyd) February 8, 2016

I'm a little bit excited that when I get home Amazon should have delivered our lil' robot hoover - What we're actually getting is this  - in my head what we're getting is this... now it just needs a good name...

my birthday is in the summer (hint hint) She can keep Computer Engineer Barbie company in my new office in Stoke

My little baby boy is one today - he's gone off to Nursery with a Caterpillar cake as is tradition. I don't really know how we went from this small squishy little thing that you could put in one place and he'd stay there - through a year of feeding, food, crawling, to almost walking and eating like a champ to the amazing little boy we have now! We had an awesome birthday party for him on Saturday - Softplay, birthday cake, pineapple hedgehogs, Caspar Babypants  - the works and he was surrounded by friends and family. So thank you to everyone who's helped make this year special - and to him, for being wonderful and filling our home with laughter and reminding us how to have fun and how to play. This is his new trick =D

I don't remember what the old kitchen was like! For the 2nd time this week Pete and I had tea at the kitchen table - there's so much more space, and flow. Cooking is a joy, the beast of an oven is being tamed and we're almost done sorting things out and putting things away. We've changed some things, got rid of the massive cooker hood that sucked all the joy and light out of the room but everything else fits nicely. The floor to celing bookcase still needs to be built and there's a vintage angelpoise lamp on the way. Really though it's minor things, it's pretty much done - and it's perfect =D

I was sold at a review that said "texture of a cheap sponge, and tasted like sadness but my boyfriend liked it :')" Pete is out, Brit is asleep and work has been hard and long and even after a tasty Spanish Omlette and Salad for tea I still had a cake shaped whole in my life. I contemplated proper cake baking but didn't fancy the clean up - even if tgey new kitchen layout makes that a lot easier so I figured it's time to try a mug cake. [5 mins later, including googling time] Yep, that is cake - I wonder why no one has started selling 'cup o' cake' like tasty cup of soup. It's not great cake, but I've made worse with more effort and I have a little bit of that warm cakey hug. Maybe something to be refined, maybe I should just make more / better cakes - I made a satsuma upside down cake the other day and having slices of that was little slices of sunshine.

We have an oven back - oh gosh I'd missed having an over - I was starting to go a little bit crazy - especially since our good intentions to start with - raclette, slow cookers and by week 3 it was microwave meals and takeaway. I'll be happy not to see another pizza box till NYE (Where Pete is off playing a gig and I get to look after the boy) So, we have a 'new' oven (and by new we mean brought off ebay for £150 from an angry man in Wallsall) - it's a might beast of a thing - but it's glorious. It's also blimmin' efficient (which you wouldn't expect if you'd have paid £1K new for it) Of course, it would be that on the Friday night it was installed we spent so long starting to put things away we actually ended up getting a takeaway - because our planned toad in the hole would have taken too long (and when we had it for Sunday lunch it was amazing)- but the cake I baked the next morning for Clandestine Cake Clubs Sweet Shopped themed event was a g...