Pretty Pink with a Teddy Bear on Top

Today I ventured into the world of ‘official’ cupcake decorating. I put the official in inverted commas because I have been dabbling in decorating cakes for sometime now. 

The full days course was just down the road at a place in Putney called Cakes 4 Fun,  www.cakes4funshop.co.uk. With only 3 of us in the course, it was very hands on and we ended up with a dozen of them to bring home (H and I will be eating them for the next week!).

Thankfully I did learn some new techniques, but overall it did make me realise that I do know more than I thought. Perhaps it doesn’t just have to be a hobby...mmmm

Here are some pictures:

  

  

  

  

25 Days until the London Olympics

After a quick meeting in central London today I went for a walk down Regent Street to Trafalgar Square to take some photo's. As London prepares for the Olympics the flags are coming out and the city is looking good....

  Regent Street

Regent Street

Picadilly Circus

Look carefully in this pic, you can see the counter!

The trouble with Vacuum Cleaners (Hoovers)

There are some people out there that rarely pull a vacuum cleaner out the cupboard but as I come from a background where cleaning is firmly ingrained in my being, I typically am well acquainted with the modern vacuum cleaner or Hoover as it’s called here in Britain.

You will therefore find it rather amusing that this week I had to google ‘how to use a Dyson vacuum cleaner?’

Have you seen these things? You almost need a license to use them, well I obviously do!

Upon switching it on, there was absolutely no suction coming from the bottom so after looking at all the pipes and openings I finally found the suction which was coming from the top. I then proceeded to search for a button that could change the location of the suction and got rather frustrated when I couldn’t find it. So what do you do when you’re stuck in this situation? Google it!

The next problem was emptying the bin, after trying about a dozen buttons I finally succumbed to googling again. In the end a 5 minute job actually turned out to be half an hour, at least now I am qualified to use it again.

ps. If you didn’t already know, which I didn’t hence googling again... the term Hoover is used because it was one of the first brands of vacuum cleaner. Typically the poms use the term!