Baking, baking, baking - and a party

So. I got up at 6:00. At 7:00 I started baking

I made:

24 party pies
24 party sausage rolls
20 party potato, leek and cheese pies
12 kangaroo biscuits
25 teddy bear biscuits

By the time we were due to leave at 12:30 I had managed to decorate the last of the biscuits and get all the pies, sausage rolls and biscuits packed up safely ready to transport to Sheffield.

You can see why proper bakers have to be up and in their bakeries quite so early!!!

Then off we drove to Woodseats, detouring slightly to go via Nether Green to collect Freyja from Simon's place.

And it was a lovely party.  Lots of people came.  Lots of babies and toddlers came. Ginger Rich was there. So too were Paul and Carol.  Gareth's dad came from Glossop (you can't go directly from Glossop to Sheffield by train; you have to go via Manchester which is about the same distance from Glossop but in the opposite direction. And not only did poor Ron miss his connecting train, but the bottle of wine he was bringing to the party leaked everywhere too. His visit to Manchester Piccadilly on Saturday was not a happy one!!!) Freyja's pal Nate came (but not her pal Duncan who was working). The Builder and I were there. There was LOTS of food, and plenty of wine and beer. There was orange juice for the ankle biters. There were presens for Cally. And fairy cakes. It was all very excellent.

Except that Tabitha had to cahnge Cally out of her party dress. It was very pretty and she looked lovely. But it did rather impede her getting about. She changed into a dragon - and had a much better time wosshing around!!

So that was all good. A lovely way to spend a Saturday (just as well I like baking!!)

Cally and her birthday hat. Click on the photo to view the weekend album

Sunday was a lovely day. We woke up to nice steady rain which cleared, conveniently, just as we wanted to go out, to a lovely sunny day. We went to the dairy and to the petrol station and otherwise just pottered about. I was asleep good and early, mind.  All that baking on Saturday morning and a bit extra on Sunday had apparently tuckered me out!

Nice lazy morning today - I'm on an evening shift so no need to get up and rush about. No need to rush about tomorrow either. I have the day entirely off :-)