Tuesday 6th Oct

I woke to another grey rainy day, so i put the dogs out and went online, the new walking the dogs regime is not really taking off. Ant came down about an hour later and we sat and chatted over coffee, not quite sure what we would do with the day. We both spent some time on line then had some lunch. After lunch we made the cake, it went very well and smelt lovely before it went in the oven, four and a half hours of cooking time, quite an expensive cake to make. In the afternoon we put a fire on and decided to watch an afternoon movie, ant was asleep with in a little while so i went back on my computer and whiled away a couple of hours.
When the cake was done we took it out and it looks perfect, perhaps not as deep as it could be but that should make it easier to ice, we left it to cool on the rack and will look at decorating it tomorrow. We had a chat with gran on the phone, BA has stated they are looking to loose 1700 cabin crew, mainly through voluntary redundancy, so we wanted to reassure her we are ok, naturally it set off quite a flurry of discussion here, if we could just get a buyer for this place we could put in for redundancy and fill up our pot a little.
Another evening in front of the tv, i really should make an effort to do something more constructive, i know ant loves games nights but we don't seem to have done anything like that for an age. The tv was quite good, our 'Tales from the green valley' about a reconstructed 17th century farm, then the History of Scotland, which seemed to glide over the stupidity of Mary Queen of Scots and paint Elisabeth as a bit of a monster, then a design program, a family living in the age of the 1980's, plenty for ant and i to reminisce about, quite good stuff. We had sausage chips and beans for dinner, all it needed was a cup of tea and some slices of white bread with cheap margarine and we could have been on the Royale Family. We got off to bed and i finished a Short History of Australia, the end is a little disappointing as it only goes as far as the mid sixties, and i had not realised Australia had had it's fingers in the Vietnam war, well you live and learn. I am in a bit of a funk as i only have a couple of pages of Fatal Shore left, but then i have the illustrated history of Adelaide to get through and a couple of others expected any min through the post.