Saturday, April 17, 2010

black bananas and chalk


Writing sometimes feels like pulling teeth. I used to be able to comfortably trot out 500 words in an hour with time for a cup of tea break and a suitable helping of procrastination. I'm certainly out of practise. I'm still working on some architecture write ups. Tonight I've been trying to write about a house which is apparently a modern interpretation of a Welsh manor house. It would probably help if I knew something about Welsh manor houses... um yeah so it's going well.


I'll stop boring you all with my whinging and share a few pictures from yesterday that I didn't get a chance to post.


Chalk is currently the finger painting alternative of choice...



And in other random musings...


If cakes were celebrities (bear with me here, I promise I'm going somewhere) the black forest cake would be Angelina Jolie, the carrot Miranda Otto, the sponge Scarlett Johanson. And the banana loaf cake is more of a Rachel Griffiths. We won't call her ugly, she's not, but she isn't exactly likely to make it on a list of the world's most beautiful people. A character actress, sometimes unadorned in order to make her more 'believable'. Let's face it, a bad hair cut and sweat pants/ a loaf pan and simple cream cheese frosting can make even the best of us appear dowdy. She could certainly be tarted up with a sprinkling of walnuts, it's a shame nuts are a choking hazard for the two-year-old set.


And so here she is... my dowdy banana cake. The result of some overripe bananas and a bored two year old in need of an activity.



2 comments:

  1. You should watch the movie 'Motherhood' with Uma Thurman. She is a stay at home mum of two - a girl and a boy, and she writes a mum blog, actually its kind of your life in a New York version! She also struggles with writers block...

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  2. Dowdy is okay. Banana cake will do me any time and walnuts spoil the rich sweetness of the cream cheese frosting! Personally I am a fan of Rachel Griffiths and if I never saw Angelina Jolie again that would be okay too. Who is Miranda Otto?

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