Cake making -The easy route.

I have been thinking of buying this machine for a little while. Convincing myself that I didn't need it then convincing myself that I did. However, when I stop looking at the catalogue and the web page and actual stood in the shop in front of this fabulous pink cake pop maker well..............I knew that I would buy this.
Here it is

I love looking at the great cake pop designs and all the different ways that you can decorate them.

It makes perfect cake pops all the same size and ready in 4 minutes.....yes 4 minutes.

For my first bake I just dipped them in melted chocolate and sprinkled on sugar strands. In fact  my family just liked the bite size cakes.

Now I need to try something more adventurous but I had so much fun with these. They did not last long.  So I need to bake some more . At least that only takes a few minutes. I'm off to weigh up the ingredients........

What I will be doing on Saint Distaff's Day

St. Distaff's Day Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

Partly work, and partly play,   Ye must on St Distaff's day:   From the plough soone free your teame,   Then come home and fother them.   If the maides a spinning goe,   Burne the flax, and fire the tow.   Bring in pailes of water then,    Let the maides bewash the men:   Give St. Distaff all the right   Then bid Christmas sport good-night.   And next morrow, every one   To his own vocation.

Today , January 7th, is Saint Distaffs Day. The first day after Epiphany. The Yule feast period has come to an end and work  resumes. Women returned to their spinning.
  A distaff is a staff with a cleft for holding wool, flax, etc. from which thread is drawn while being spun by hand.
So, now that the festivities are over, the decorations are all packed away and the  last piece of Christmas cake eaten  it is the time that I resume my 'spinning' . Well not spinning myself although I have in the past and do have a distaff and carding paddles. I am going to pick up my knitting needles and knit knit knit. I have chosen my yarn. Hooray, what fun I had in the shop , away from the sales and looking at yarns and patterns.

I have also been sorting through my photos and I have chosen one from each month to remember 2012. Here they are:

                                Dr Who Experience London on board the Tardis. January

                                              Bulrushes at Pegwell Bay Kent February

                                                   Snowdrops in the garden March

                                                     Tulips in the garden April

                                            Chartwell Kent May

                                        The balcony on Jubilee  Day June

                                                            Sissinghurst Kent July

                                                    The garden in August

                                   1940's Day Chatham Dockyards September

                                   Crochet hook roll made for my daughter October

                                                         Frosty garden November

                                                       Wreath December