Cup Cakes

Up early. Kathryn arrived home about 4:30 am from Thailand.

I manage to squeeze a 4 km walk out of the neighbourhood. Some streets actually have a small incline so I walked down these and back up again in reverse proceeding laterally across the upper and lower extremities so as to get variety as well as exercise.

Yayas are out in force washing cars, sweeping the footpaths, walking dogs.

Very pleasant in the cool morning as the sun goes higher.

After breakfast, I decide to tackle the larder to impose some order. I am also looking for ingredients for cupcakes.

So the girls are somewhat at odds this morning. Nothing pleases them. And they don’t want to go out claiming it is too hot. They are right about that.

Eventually we agree that Nonna and Poppa will go get eggs and icing sugar (we find a dozen in the fridge later …) and there is no icing sugar at the supermarket … 

After lunch we tackle the cakes which are strawberry cupcakes so we use up some of the frozen berries from yesterday.

We put on lemon icing (Kathryn locates the icing sugar in the larder when she emerges: it is in a box I am unfamiliar with). And the girls cut up sour strips for decoration.

All in all, very successful.

Although we haven’t tasted them yet!

They are now playing hide and seek with Jane (MF has gone to ground with a can in his hand, his expertise using the mixmaster having exhausted him…).

I feel terrible just walking away from all the cleaning up, leaving Jane to it; can see how you’d get used to it!