Red or Green?

or, what good is a party without a cake?

Today was supposed to be a non-business day. So I was annoyed when the Labour party rang while I was washing up after baking a cake. I had to tell them I'd be voting Green for the first time at a general election, because we have a good candidate, and because much as I support our local "Old Labour" candidate, David Drew, I can no longer bear to hear Ed Milliband's "No deal with the SNP" speech. Maybe I just hear it a bit more often because I live somewhere near the middle of England...

So I gathered a piece of paper from the large pile of election pamphlets I've been saving in order to make a meaningful piece of art (!) and fashioned a quick flag. I make a lot of these in nursery, for sandcastles, using the childrens' artwork.

We ate some of the cake later on. I described it to Steve erroneously as "fudgedonia cake" (must have still been thinking about Scotland) but it is in fact fudgy coffee macadamia crunch with added fondant icing! As names go, I prefer fudgedonia.

We agreed to forgo eating it all in one session.

The other (healthy drink) in the collage is a chilled beetroot soup, a sort of Bloody Mary with added beetroot and no vodka, from Hugh F-W's Light and Easy recipe book.

In the past 24 hours I have changed my bank account, upgraded to fibre broadband, and tidied my desk, big time. And that's just the half of it! What author Maeve Binchy says is so true:

When you're young, you have time and energy but no money
When you're middle aged, you have energy and money but no time
When you're older you have time and money but no energy

(Now that I work full time, if you include my various jobs, I spend my spare time either micro-napping, or frantically trying to keep up with the rest of my life. I wonder what I did all day when I was part-time).

Off to eat supper now, which CleanSteve has cooked1