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Sometimes All You Can Do Is Bake

What a bank hols. What horrific weather. What a washout.

I hate the frustration of having time to spend as a family, only to be so horrendously let down by the weather that you can't enjoy it. It's so horrible here even the amphibians are headed for shelter.

Coupled with a slightly sore ear that turns out to requiring the out of hours GP today, and a diagnosis of 'a really nasty infection that will more than likely get worse before it gets better', that will 'probably result in my ear looking like a cauliflower' and 'that I shouldn't waste any time at all getting the pain relief started as I will most certainly know about it by tomorrow morning', I am almost joyous.

So to baking.

Triple chocolate muffins from a packet mix at Asda.

I feel as sullied as if I'd eaten a McDonalds.

Still, it brightened up the afternoon for Baby A who, it seems, is quite the little chef!

So much so I decided I would actually make some more cakes from scratch. (I was being that lazy with the packet mix - I even had the ingredients already at home).

Just as well I did really. I couldn't find my cake tray to start with, as us quite evident from how the chocolate ones turned out!!

WM x

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