25th December 2023
So the day began, a good breakfast of waffles, scrambled egg and bacon, followed by a flurry of present openings, and that was that.
The prospect of the Christmas lunch at Kelli’s mum loomed, so we went for a walk. I was expecting to see all the children in the area playing outside with their new toys, but there were none about.
Kelli had made a sponge yesterday, so today we had to turn it into a Victoria sandwich. My job was to make the cut to separate top and bottom.
My plan was to place the cake on a flat surface, and find something that was half the thickness, place a knife on top and rotate the cake thus making the straight cut. At Kelli’s suggestion, I kept the cake on the plastic base of the cake cover. Needless to say it didn’t work to plan as there was an area in the middle that the knife didn’t quite reach, so when we removed the top piece it took a chunk of the bottom with it.
We were left with filling it with jam and cream.
Carefully we fitted the top section, which cracked in a couple of places, but they were covered up with powdered sugar.
So we had a sponge cake with a replica of the San Andras fault now filled with jam and cream, and a top surface that looked like the result of an earthquake covered with white sugar, but it tasted wonderful.
Around 3.00pm I had a FaceTime with Ryan and Louise plus Marlo, Amelie and boyfriend Luke.
Alway good to see them all.
At 4.00pm we headed off for our family Christmas dinner.
The red wine certainly helped, I was happy, everyone had a good time, and the food was great.
It’s amazing how tired you get doing nothing, I was shattered when we got back, falling asleep on the sofa, but hang on, that was probably the wine, mmm now I remember.
I want to wish my reader a very merry Christmas, and if there is more, I wish you both a very merry Christmas.
Another Lifetime to go 