Last month I took my first trip alone, on a plane, to Poland! Honestly, I was really nervous about the trip, having never traveled alone before. But especially because I don’t know much of the language (other than hello and goodbye), although Artur assured me most people would understand what I said if I spoke to them in English and, most did, though it took a few attempts. We had…
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Motorbike cake
One of my goals this year was to bake more often and I’ve been trying my hand at novelty cakes recently. My first attempt was a snooker table cake for my friends birthday, followed by a penguin design for Christmas last year. Both were simple sponge cake recipes with fondant decorations. The motorbike cake (shown below) was made for Artur’s birthday back in May and is my latest novelty cake.…
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Lifestyle Goals For 2012
Happy New Year! 🙂 I hope everyone had a great Christmas. Ours was fairly quiet – we had Christmas Day and Boxing Day at my parents, exchanged gifts, and ate way too much food! So the usual then, lol… Doesn’t everyone over indulge at Christmas though? Like previous years, I decided to start the year off by writing down my goals for the coming year, although some of these won’t…
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2011 Blogging Goals Review
Merry Belated Christmas everyone! I hope you all had a lovely Christmas, however, you spent it, and are now enjoying the post-Christmas holidays. I’m off work for 10 days myself, and have been crazy busy this week from sale shopping to visiting family members, and even catching up with some work on my blog. Including working on my 2011 blogging goals! But while I’m having some time off, I know…
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Mint Choc Chip Cake Recipe
I’ve been playing a mobile game called Baking Story recently, and the most recent level introduced some mint choc chip cupcakes! My favourite ice cream flavour… In cupcake form!? I knew I had to give them a try in real life for myself. Which you can see a snippet off in the left-hand corner, but as I had some cake mix leftover, I decided to make a mint choc chip…
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Geeky Birthday Weekend at Chevron 7.6 – UK Stargate Convention
Hey there! Things have been busy since my last post. I celebrated my birthday weekend at the Chevron 7.6 UK Stargate convention and we finally got a new computer after our last one suffered a fatal computer failure. I also purchased a new laptop so we have a back-up if any goes wrong in the future. Fingers crossed it doesn’t!🤞🤞 But I’m happy to have a back-up, just in case.…
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What Being without a Computer Has Taught Me
Over the past few weeks, our family computer has been randomly turning itself off and each time it turns off it’s been taking longer and longer to reboot. Last week it failed to turn back on at all and so we’ve been without one since then. I’m actually borrowing a friend’s computer to write this post! So, what happened? To be honest, we don’t know for certain but have opened…
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Blogging Goals For 2011
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a great Christmas and Santa brought you some lovely presents. I spent this Christmas and New Year relaxing at home with my family. We even had an extended Christmas break from work which was lovely, and something I’ve not been able to do since college. But things have certainly been very busy since going back to work, in fact, this month has simply…
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Winter Memorabilia Show Birmingham, November 2010
Yesterday was the Winter Memorabilia Show at the Birmingham NEC. A comic convention covering multiple fandoms, with celebrity guests, talks, photo ops, a large dealers room and so much more. It’s held twice a year (in March and November) and this marks my third time attending a Memorabilia event. The Winter Memorabilia Show is always one of the highlights of the convention calendar for me and a great way to…