After a mixed day yesterday - of piano students, window cleaners, gardening chores and washing, I sat down to watch The Great British Bake Off and decided that I should extend my baking skills further as there is probably more money to be made there than in teaching piano! A truly sad state of affairs when music is the path for so many of life's wonderful experiences - it is there throughout, through all the good times, the bad, the Ok and the uneventful and of course the absolutely out there spectacular times and for me it is there with the baking!
So, after deciding that I could set up the CBI (Crawley Baking Institute) but that it may turn into rather a WI style affair (absolutely no offence to the WI as they are a superb organisation/institution) rather than true to its basic ingredients, the idea was given a quick boot - maybe another year.
So what of the fear - fear of failure at Uni and financial fear are the main ones - Financial fear is one big ugly demon that is lurking not on my shoulder (as he's too big for that!) but is standing well and truly behind me drooling in my shadow. So, what am I going to about this big demon? Well I'm going to see what work I can get for Christmas (as places will be limited) at say Sainsbury's, Debenhams etc etc etc and I'm going to have a bake fest......
We have some friends coming over for dinner/supper on Saturday and so instead of doing a calorie laden desert I'm going to do my version of high tea with tiny cheese scones (taking them through nicely from the main meal) filled with cream cheese and herbs, little hazelnut tartlets, little chocolate brownies (possibly with caramel), salty peanut macaroons (never made them before so should be interesting) and a small dark and white chocolate sponge.
Musically I think it will be light and frivilous - Natalie Cole, Sachmo, Glenn Miller that type of thing. Definitely NO WAGNER as he's for bread making.....as he's way too heavy for little fancies.
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