Cake fourteen

Scary Halloween

Today’s Halloween and it’s practically celebrated worldwide. It wasn’t so when I was young and I still find it rather difficult to accept Halloween parties, pumpkins and scary cookies outside the English speaking countries.. I know for sure, it’s  a problem of generation gap! In fact my children and especially my 17-year-old daughter love it and have loved it since they were young kids. I’ve made pumpkin-shaped cookies or pizzas with them and I thought it was already much... I’d have never gone so far as to make a tomb-like cupcake with an arm coming out of a grave! This is what my younger daughter made yesterday and, most incredibly, I helped her to realize! We really do things for our children we’d never ever have done ourselves! 

At first I was kind of disgusted making the tomb or the dead arm, but after a while I must admit I was having fun..... It’s all a matter of a different perspective, I was used to seeing a graveyard as a scary place to avoid while younger people love horror stories with vampires and walking dead. I’ve come to understand it’s only a way to handle the fear for monsters and ghosts and to keep them away, which is in line with the ancient Celtic tradition, isn’t it? 

Song: Eleonor Rigby

Talking about tombs and graveyards, have you ever heard of Eleonor Rigby's sad story?

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Cake thirteen

A Flowerbed

I love flowers and mostly love their colours. I love them in the wild, like in the endless fields of daffodils in Cornwall or of heather in Scotland. But I also like them all mixed up in flowerbeds, when you can create your own design and colour effect playing with different flower species.. 

In one of my next lives I might be a gardener, something like Laura or Rosemary in the British Tv series ‘Rosemary and Thyme’, without crimes of course, I’m not the type for them!

For the time being I can only make my balconies and windowsills look like small oasis of colour in a dull white-plastered block of flats. My family knows and complains a lot when I’m away and it’s their turn to water the flowers....

Some weeks ago it was my birthday and I had the nicest start of the day I could think of: a bed of flower cupcakes on my breakfast table!!! My two daughters had secretly made some splendid cupcakes with fondant flowers for me: white anemonies to be more precise, my favourite flowers! Very sweet of them, isn't it?

What did I do? I closed my eyes, took them by the hand and took them for a walk along our 'Cupcake Park', where nothing is real and nothing to get hungabout...

Song: Strawberry Fields Forever

Come, join us and let’s all go down where nothing’s to get hungabout!

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Cake twelve

A solitary penguin 

Penguins don’t like to live alone, they live in groups and have friends and family. They’re very much like ourselves, aren’t they? Like me, for sure! I love my independence but I couldn’t live alone. It doesn’t matter to live under the same roof, it’s a matter of psychological closeness: you feel close to your family wherever you all are. 

It does help to be altogether though... and join our forces! I’d have never dared to make this fondant penguin unless my younger daughter had insisted. She wanted to make it for her best friend’s birthday: I was kind of scared of making fondant I was quite sure it’d have been a disaster..... but she was right! We made it and I felt like one! I can be her, she can be me, we all can be the penguin! 

By the way, anybody want to adopt this solitary penguin on a rocky island?

Song: “Im the walrus’ 

Who are we? We’re not only ourselves but ‘there’s a bit of us in one another

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