Warming Up

I was making fairy cakes with my son this morning. Well I was making them and he was licking spoons and bowls. A bit of raw egg never hurt anyone, right? I’d done pretty well with the cakes, but the recipe was a bit vague about the icing saying that I needed to add water to the huge bowl of icing sugar until the consistency was right. I had failed to read the ingredients which called for 2 to 3 tablespoons of water and put in a glug and when that seemed not to do much, added another glug.

It was too much water. My icing was too runny. 

There was already so much sugar in there (I mean, it turns out that icing is just sugar and water) that I didn’t want to add more, so we just worked with what we had. But the icing didn’t really stay on the cakes so much as waterfall down on to the plate. I apologised to my three year old who looked up at me and said, “Don’t worry. It’s all part of the fun.”

I hadn’t expected such philosophical wisdom from one so young, but he said it so breezily and happily that I immediately didn’t mind about what had happened. He was right, this was meant to be fun. And it was fun. And the kids just lick all the icing off anyway so they might as well do that off the plate. 

It’s all part of the fun, guys. It’s all part of the fun.

Fucking relax, dad. It’s just fairy cakes.

We watched the latest Taskmaster with the kids. Phoebe wants Daisy to win. Still annoyed that I messed up my Marble Run. As a couple of people pointed out I should absolutely have tried to go down the slope in zigzags. But I was very bad at thinking things through in the heat of the moment and this one really felt like time was limited. I then made an excellent Marble Run with my son, but to be fair if the marble had been normal sized and I’d had a box of marble run stuff then I could have done a lot better. Though it would have been much less funny. 

Weirdly one of the teachers at Phoebe’s village primary school appears in a Cbeebies show. Phoebe must think that people she knows being on TV is just part of life. She seems unimpressed with me being on it anyway.

We had a lovely family day, making cakes, doing nature hunts, watching films (and I am catching up on Adam Sandler’s oeuvre as the kids love the Hotel Transylvania movies and playing games. We managed to have a takeaway and watch the somewhat disappointing and predictable Last Christmas (though nice to see a fair amount of comedians playing small parts, including Bilal Zafar from off of Twitch of Fun).