Well, I wasn't about to eat one, not that it was too early in the day, or anything silly on inconsequential like that but, out hopping this morning, for the basic necessities,my hand did hover over the crisply packaged and cellophane-d cake boxes filled with Cream Slices, Chocolate Eclairs, and sugar-coated, jam Doughnuts.......yummy!
And it was His birthday......but what stopped me buying such a box was the immediate thought-transference to another time and another situation. There I was with my mother, indulging in a weekend-treat occasion, when a cream slice was the only thing to eat; I could taste that same pastry as we did then, and my heart missed a beat as my hand faltered....
Isn't it odd how such recollections can be summoned up, in an instant, by a sight, a sound or a tantalising whiff of a once familiar fragrance....now sadly gone, but held captive in the heart until such a moment of recall jerks one back into a previous time!
Thank goodness for such occurrences, our lives would be so much the poorer without these recollections and lost folk would surely be lost for ever. Death may be an end to someone's life but their presence need never be lost to you, for you hold them in your heart from where they can never be dislodged.
Well, where was I....oh yes, in deep contemplation over the cream cake stand in my local supermarket, buying some of life's not so essential necessities!
And in any case, our present lives are not without cake indulgences, for I made a pink Christening cake for last weekend, and as it was the Dear Man's birthday yesterday, and we're all going out for a birthday dinner party at a local hostelry tonight, for which I'm making him a cherry cake covered with Chocolate Ganache....we are very definitely not without CAKE!!!!
I've been occupied quite heavily with cake making these last few weeks, and cooking gluten-free foods for my other blog, and blogging and gardening which is why you've not heard from me at all.
And my iPhone lost itself from the top of my Mazda as I drove out of Chiswick House and Garden's car park, after my visit to this lovely location in the second week of May! My goodness,, what a silly thing to let happen to one, hey????
How we have allowed ourselves to become so dependent on a 'phone is rather alarming, isn't it. Mostly I use mine for taking photographs as its camera is really quite brilliant, and with my food blog needing to be made more interesting by the insertion of lovely food images, it's very useful to have my 'phone on hand and easily usable!!!
Technology is amazing really, just as long as one can keep up with some of its ramifications, implications and uses....and isn't it great fun, anyway!!
And grandchildren are always nearby or on-hand to show one how to do something with ones latest "toy".
Toodle loo
Daisy xxx
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