Happy Birthday Maud Marie!

Mmmm... Cake cake cake!

It was Nina's birthday not so long ago and I decided to make her some carrot cake (her favourite apparently).... but if I just made bog standard stuff then that would have meant none for me... which is a bit rubbish at a birthday party! So these little beauties are 100% gluten free!

I made the little muffin cakes to test out the sturdiness of the recipe and then followed it up with the big loaf tin model to take to Nina's. She said it was almost as good as Mamma makes... but I think she was just being kind... but to me I can't tell the difference and at least I know exactly what's in it! Yum!

Spotify

Brilliant new software Spotify that lets you play practically any CD you can think of live over the net. They put in adverts between about ever 5 tracks but they are only short and you can easily live with that. If they really annoy you that much then you can just pay the monthly fee. Try it try it :)

Southampton Snowage

OK OK I know this is really late... but still just as interesting :O

So it doesn't snow that often in the UK and especially not daaarrn saaarrth in Southampton so to get this lovely dump of snow on a Monday morning was pleasant. Well aesthetically pleasing at least.... for about 10 minutes whilst I was looking out of the window drinking my nice warm tea... and then the novelty wore off. This was espcially true as I negotiated the ice-rink that used to be my path to work. I walked obviously as my bike was kind of frozen.

By Wednesday it was brown slush and Friday it had all gone. Phew - no more of that please until I get to go skiing again.