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caracatus only wanted a cuddle

I was given a homemade cake mixture today - Hermann, the German friendship cake. You build on the mixture over a period of 9 days, adding ingredients to it each day and then split the mixture into four and hand out three parts, before baking the fourth part on the tenth day and eating it yourself.

Nice idea (I think)...except I left the mixture in the car for a whole afternoon after it was given to me and it grew. When I poured it into the bowl it sort of fizzed and now it's bubbled and grown some more. It reminds me of The Demon Headmaster when he controlled the massive plant to kill everyone and its tentacles grew when people weren't looking.

I'm a bit worried I'll look down the stairs in the morning and the mixture will be bubbling up the stairwell....just as well it smells nice!

I can't bake. Or look after things in general really. Caracatus the cactus was bought for me 9 years ago and I think he's only survived as he doesn't need much looking after. Here's to this cake now, I'm not sure it'll have many friends by the time I'm done with it...