Toby is nine years old today! Never have presents matched pyjamas so well. There were Celtic goods, bongos, knights that need excavating, books and tantalising possibilities with gift cards. The weather did not allow for the promised golfing at pitch and put so Andrew took Toby to see Tangled at the cinema instead.
After studying the chocolate cake hall of fame in Nigella's Feast, Toby decided to go for the quadruple chocolate cake. Cocoa, dark choc chips, white choc chips and chocolate syrup - he is a boy who likes his chocolate (no idea where he gets that from).
We went down to Albury yesterday to peruse the furniture shops. Albury is an hour and forty-five minutes away by car and while I have been several times for work (they have a library converged with a museum) I haven't spent a lot of time there. Some good friends from church moved all the way to Albury from just around the corner, just before Christmas, so we took the opportunity to visit them in their new house. They not only gave us lunch but offered to keep the kids for us while we shopped! Toby looks pretty happy to be surrounded by so many girls.
They have a paddock behind the house with a horse and foal which thrilled Bethany.
Horses have such beautiful faces.
Mim and Bill arrived early this evening, just in time to head to a pre-wedding BBQ at the Botanic Gardens. It is, unfortunately, raining so we were very thankful for the large undercover area. I have made the wedding cake and this afternoon began the scary and totally new process of icing it. The three layers and board all look slightly dodgy at the moment, covered in a thin layer of fondant that goes under the royal icing I'll make tomorrow. Hopefully, tomorrow afternoon, I'll have some photos of a sweetly rustic but perfectly acceptable, wedding cake. I'm really hoping it goes well because Karen gave me a beautiful teacup as a thank-you - I hope don't feel compelled to give it back!
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