Didnt we have a lovely day at Burnham

Bill took me out for the day yesterday. We had a trip to the seaside. My mum is back in hospital and I was quite upset after I had visited her.

So yesterday we went to the seaside. Burnham On Sea is a lovely old fashioned seaside town we walked along the front to the sailing club and on to the nature reserve.

Went into town for lunch had a lovely panini and then walked along to the wooden lighthouse, me with my sandals in hand barefoot in the warm sand. It was lovely and on the way home we bought some Toffee fudge ice-cream.

Then last night the icing on the cake we went and had a meal at the George inn at Cambridge.

Chicken and Bacon Salad followed by a Hot Chocolate Fudge Brownie with lots of Chocolate Sauce and Vanilla Ice Cream!!

Kat3 is evolving

Well I have played around a bit more with Kat3 OH says I am bonkers!!

A little bit more playing and then things will get serious I will actually use the Air Dry Modelling Clay and start learning its drawbacks !!

Back to Modelling - Kat3

Today it was too hot for most escapes so after a nice walk down to the local canal (Saul Junction ) and a Honey and ginger Ice Cream I had another bash at modelling.

He is supposed to look a litle kooky gremlin like maybe he is Kookie-Katt. This was my first experiment using a cocktail stick embedded in his neck to attach the head. Ouch!!!

This work is still being done in plasticine I will wait for cooler weather before I hit the clay.

Ginger Cake a Sucess!!!

Well here it is in its scrumminess. I got the recipe on an Internet Forum. It said I should leave overnight after cooking and this seemed to be suggested in some other recipes. Well what a difference it seemed too fluffy and fragile when it was cooked and being me  I couldnt wait to get it out of the tin. Got it out once and put it back in quickly.

Took it out of the tin last night jast as it cooled down and it nearly fell apart.

Today at 11am we had coffee and Ginger Cake very pleased with the recipe. And here it is after cutting. Didnt have time to take a pic of the first slices as they were eaten too fast!!

Making a Ginger Cake

I decided that a good way to deal with my guilt and worry about my mums illness was to try and step into her cake making shoes. This is my first effort in a long while in making a Ginger Cake. Its not her recipe as thats mostly in her head and due to the onset of dementia a bit dodgy.

Ok so here we have the assembled ingredients :

Oops not forgetting the butter

All the wet ingredients and sugar weighed out in a saucepan

Then the sifted Flour and spices including Ginger Powder made a well in the centre

Got an egg then beat it

Gently melted the butter and sticky stuff over a low heat

At the same time adding the beaten egg and cold milk to the sifted flour

Stirred the gloopy sugary treacly mix into this to produce a lovely smelling gloop.

Watched it baking and wished my Oven door was cleaner

Result a bit miffed it has sunk a bit in the middle but recipe says leave overnight before you eat!

Can we wait that long!!

Lester waiting to be viewed

My poor client is really busy and wont be coming to view the lad until next week.

But in the meantime here he is :-

And Another Go!! Katt 2

Here we go another bash not trying to be clever (yet) just playing.