Happy Birthday

Happy birthday to my (not so little) first born.  He is 14 today.  I made my first "proper"birthday cake today which has gone down a treat.  It was a chocolate cake with a chocolate buttercream filling and then coated in chocolate buttercream, white chocolate buttons and white chocolate buttons with hundreds and thousands on the top.  The only thing missing were the candles.  I had to hunt around and, the only one I could find, was a number 5 candle from my son Harley's birthday cake in March.  John didn't seem to mind at all : )

Things are finally looking up.  Spoke to Tax Credits today and I am finally getting all my back dated money tomorrow and then regular payments resume on Monday.  It's going to be so good being able to get back into the kitchen.  We were literally down to our last bag of sausages today for dinner.  Goodness knows what we would have done if we had to have waited until Monday.

I'm off to the Gloucester Quays Food Festival tomorrow.  All day I get to sit and watch chefs prepare meals etc, Phil Vickery being one of them.  I'm also going to see my absolute favourite chef Gino D'Acampo on Saturday.  I'm going to take along his latest book and hopefully get him to sign it for me.  Maybe even get a cheeky picture with him if I can get close enough!

Well signing off for now as have a busy day ahead of me tomorrow : )

Fran x