So – it was my birthday again…..on Saturday.
The Tuesday before, in the charity shop, I was given, among other things, an individual cake with a candle on top.
On the Thursday, I was given (along with cards, flowers, a plant) a sponge cake – with one candle on top. I took it home as there was no-one who wanted cake in the morning. I should have left it there, as there were more people who would have appreciated it in the afternoon! Instead, I took 3 slices to have as dessert when I had lunch with a friend and her husband on Saturday. She had intended to make another cake, so I managed to stop her in time, BUT we had éclairs with our morning coffee!
Then on Saturday afternoon I had tea with a friend and she provided 4 cupcakes. As she doesn’t eat them I had one and left her one and she told me to take the other 2 home…..
That was 3 cakes (or pieces) I ate in one day!
With over half a sponge cake and 2 cupcakes, I decided that I would never eat them all before they went off, so took a large chunk of sponge cake to the “family meet up” and gave it to my niece to share with her husband and children. In fact I think her children didn’t get any but her brother and partner got some instead. Still got quite a lot of cake left, though.
I got even more cake (as well as a card and roses) the next Thursday from someone who had not been at the café the week before. She seemed to think that a fairy cake would be least appropriate for me so got that one! I did give quite a lot away this time though, to friends who came in.
Can one have too much cake? Yes! But I did actually appreciate the thoughts behind and effort involved in producing it.