Successful Party

Balloon Sample

Balloon Sample

It’s always a worry when you work hard to prepare for a gathering of friends, will anyone talk to each other? Will the music be to everyone’s taste? Will the food be eaten and do you have enough drinks available!?

Over the weekend we hosted a party to celebrate a couple of overdue milestones, the fact we had moved into a new place and birthday put off from earlier in the year. The house had been tidied and cleaned, copious amounts of alcohol bought and a variety of delicious munchies stocked. To give the party a little life an appropriate playlist had been compiled and the Lego built and displayed. Even the ants had been groomed!

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Fudge, Glorious Fudge

Mountain of Fudge

Mountain of Fudge

When it comes to the kitchen I have no creative skills. I can cook a meal as long as I don’t have to make anything from scratch. Yes this means that most of my meals are cheese-on-toast, who wouldn’t be happy living off cheese-on-toast, or simple things thrown together without much thought. 

A few months back I did discover that I could make fudge. And I enjoyed making fudge. Yes it does only have 6 ingredients and one of those is the flavouring but you do need to get it right to create the perfect fudge. This all came about following a rare urge to be both creative and use the kitchen, looking back on that day it was mostly luck.
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