The World of Poo and birthday cakes. Not at the same time though!

Last week it was my birthday and in my family that means all of us getting together at Middle Sisters house for a birthday lunch over the weekend.

I thought I would post a picture of one of my presents and the birthday cake for your entertainment. My family knows me very well!

Thank to my bookish sister one present was books, including a Discworld title, Miss Felicity Beedle’s The World of Poo. This book added a new word to my vocabulary, gongeformer* and ensured an entertaining afternoon reading about a small boy on the Discworld, his poo collection, and his very understanding grandmother.

I am now trying to get number 1 son to read it, fortunately there is no fear of him taking it as a hint and starting his own collection…

As for the cake, I invite you to imagine how useful having a brother-in-law who is a pastry chef is. The candles were inserted (all credit to Middle Sister for that bit 😉 ) into a selection of yummy cupcakes that included puppet heads eagerly sought after by the kids. Actually we had to fight the ravening horde off to get a photo before they descended.

Thank you E___ for making sure your mum and dad decorated them correctly! 😀

And before you ask, yes, the other presents and celebrations were appropriate for an adult, these were just the most entertaining parts of the day!

Thank you family!

mmmmm…. yummy puppet heads…..

*A gongfermor (gong farmer) is the person Tudors called when the privy was full. Ewww…

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Estranged wife and a birthday cake from above. 1947.

Barrier Miner 15 Apr 1947 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48494499

My computer and the internet are having relationship problems this week so I see no reason to stray from these appropriate articles about the many, and I suspect turbulent, relationships of the much married Tommy Manville at the moment.

At any time my tenuous connection with the interweb could drop out, and really, he was such a popular fellow these articles are easy to find. Don’t accuse me of laziness, it is really just a kind of speed-posting!

In this article wife number eight is going to send him a birthday cake by helicopter even though they are estranged and have filed assault charges against each other. Hmm, I wonder if the helicopter is going to gently touch down in his lavish gardens and deliver a beautifully decorated cake? I kind of hope it is more like black-clad hitmen with weaponized baking and more assault charges filed in the morning.