Ah, I have been so busy lately!

One of my dear friend’s grandsons is going to get married.
They would have liked a very simple and private ceremony, but for reasons I won’t discuss here they‘ll have to face a little more formal wedding…
Also the reception after the wedding will be a bit pompous, I’m afraid and there will be many guests.

But I was asked by the young couple to make a special wedding cake for them, and I have trying to do my best to fulfil their wish.
Willie has always adored my sublime soft fruit cake, filled with the special Violet’s creamy delight and Katie is so skinny that she really needs something which might help her to get slightly plumper.

As my old friend Gorge Bernard said, marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open, I think that success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate.

You might object that I must not speaking of marriage, since I have never been married, I might answer that , on the opposite, it shows and proves my deep knowledge of the whole matter.

Well, forgive me, but I have to leave you now, the decoration of the cake will take me still a long time and the fatal date is approaching….