How lovely to hear that you and Sally met up over Easter. Margo and I also found time to see each other and we went on a trip to the Theatre Grand, Wolverhampton, to see the spooky Derren Brown. I must confess I have quite a crush on Derren, which is odd, because I understand he's gay. I was desperate to be picked out from the crowd and ushered onto the stage and waved my arms in the air shouting 'pick me, pick me' at every opportunity. Part way through the show Derren asked a volunteer to pick someone from the audience to help on stage. 'Pick anyone you like' he said, 'but don't pick anyone who is waving their hands in the air shouting "pick me, pick me" because they're always a ****ing nightmare'. Typical!
Now I must tell you about Herman the German. A couple of weeks ago I was asked if I would like to bake a Friendship Cake. I had no idea what a friendship cake was so I said 'yes please'! The next day I was handed a small tub with some slimey gloop in the bottom and a set of instructions. The first thing to do was to decant the gloop into a large mixing bowl and cover with a clean tea towel. When I opened the tub to scrape out the contents with my spatula I nearly fainted as the gloop looked and smelt rather unpleasant. (Did you ever see that film called 'The Blob'?)
Nevertheless, I persevered, stirring the mixture every day and adding ingredients as required. Each day, the mixture bubbled and fizzed, and grew in volume. It was quite a relief to stir it as this knocked all the air out and seemed to calm it down a bit. Ten days later the mixture was four times the size and ready to bake. It still looked and smelt unpleasant despite the vast amount of sugar that had gone into it. I baked the enormous cake and do you know, it was surprisingly mediocre.
It's a bit like a cakey apple strudel but not really worth ten days of effort in my humble opinion. In fact, right at the start of the process, when I told the little Lattes we were going to make a special cake that would take ten days, they asked 'Why don't we make an ordinary cake and then we can eat it today?". They've got a point, but if you'd like to know more take a look at:
http://www.hermanthegermanfriendshipcake.com/
Love Lucy x
PS Did I tell you I've got myself a little job fannying around with press releases for a few hours a week?
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