Fete Accompli – Easy Cake Stall Baking
April 27, 2011
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Yes – that is right, the Fete is complete, finished, all over and I am still standing!
My eldest child started Prep this year, and I started my Primary School Parent life by joining the Fete Committee. I did start to worry when the Fete Committee President kept referring to me as the “brave prep parent”, but I soon realised that this was not a job entered into lightly! I was blown away by the effort of this group of dedicated individuals in their total commitment to organising the fete. Read more…
Categories: Baking, Food Ramblings, Hints & Tips, In The Kitchen, Ramblings
As an English
Friday afternoons are dangerous in the office. You’ve worked hard all week, and there is a collective mind shift to weekend activities. That means sometimes conversations can wander, to the irrelevant, the sublime or the altruistic – and all three if you are lucky. 
There are certain patterns in life that once you acknowledge them, they seem to reveal themselves more and more. Maybe your eyes have just been open to them, or perhaps you are just taking more notice of when they occur now. 
As St. Patrick’s Day comes around again, many will be bracing for a day of bad impressions and a sudden recollection of their long lost Irish ancestry. Some pubs that get ignored for the rest of the year suddenly are full, with cardboard cut out shamrocks and leprechauns hanging from any available space. The other feature for this time of year is the apparent need to colour everything green to commemorate the Emerald Isle. 
