Chilled Sunday and cakeage

It’s been a rainy Sunday. The cats have joined us today having a day of rest and have largely been slumped over chairs or cushions, comatose. It’s all peaceful now but it doesn’t bode well for a quiet night!

We lit the Woodburner this morning to give the house a bit of cheer on such a dreich day. I love the faint smell of woodsmoke in the air on these early burnings. It heralds the start of autumn proper.

I’ve also been baking again. I said that I’d take a cake round to a neighbour to celebrate her birthday today, so I made a slightly slumped lemon verbena cake with lemon cream cheese icing.

I only noticed its slope after I’d assembled the layers…too late unfortunately to take it apart.

It reminded me of the cakes I used to make in the caravan that always came out of the mini oven with a distinctive lean to the left…and a few years of this have shown me how to mask the slope in photographs, so here it doesn’t look too bad, but in the flesh it does look worse.

We also got our first bit of artwork up on the wall this week, a fact worth celebrating.

It was a canvas in the downstairs bathroom, not the room I’d envisioned starting with, but needs must when there’s a desperate need for colour in an otherwise sombre room.

Hoping that you’re all having a peaceful and restful day, wherever you are.