Baking

Having picked myself up and dusted myself down after yesterday's blog, and in addition having telephone calls from both sons and from younger son's wife, I am moving on and waiting to see what happens.

When I go to visit anyone I usually take a "wee gift" in the form of a bottle of wine, a bunch of flowers, a box of chocolates, whatever.

Tomorrow I am going to visit my brother and his wife. Brother does not drink, sister-in-law keeps the most magnificent garden, so flowers would be rather coals to Newcastle.

So I had a good idea and decided to bake a cake, or at least little sponge buns. Now I haven't baked these since my children were young, so I wasn't quite certain how they would turn out.

First mistake was to forget to take the butter out of the fridge for creaming, so it was a really difficult job and my hands and shoulder are quite sore. I made 18 buns, and made fairy cakes with about half (at least the butter was now soft for the butter icing) and iced buns with the rest.

I am taking a box with a mixture of these to my sister-in-law tomorrow.

I have loaded the books and videos in the boot of the car (we keep a running library service going) to take tomorrow.

I discovered, when I went to the car that it is a really nice warm day today.

Re the fall on Saturday, I have a beautiful bruise about the size of a spread hand on my left hip. However, it is not causing me any trouble.