Times change......

.......sometimes for the better.

When I was seven years old there was no possibility that I would be allowed or encouraged to do any baking. In our family such activity was for girls. It was assumed that there would always be someone of the female sex to feed me.

It is hard to believe now that my parents would take such a narrow view.

Fortunately attitudes have changed for the better. Here is a chocolate cake mixed, baked and iced by my grandson, M, who is ten. And a set of cookies made and decorated by my grandson, A, who is seven.

The world is surely a better place.