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[31 Aug 2009 | One Comment | ]
New York New York

I wrote this guide for my friend Iain who’s off to NYC this week, but thought I might as well blog it too. So I added in my favourite girly places (as I didn’t think Iain would be bothered about those, but you might!) I’ve tried to keep it short and sweet… but cramming a week of New York into a tiny number of words is somewhat of a challenge!
I would also like to thank my wonderful friends Liz (@LadyBowers) and Catherine for exploring the city with me on my …

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[17 Apr 2009 | No Comment | ]
The return of the cakes

Thanks to being ill there has been a distinct lack of proper Cake Friday activity over the past few weeks. But now I am back at work and it is Friday! This is what I have been enjoying today…

and for those of you who missed the glory of Good Cake Friday last week here is one of my mother’s wonderful butterfly cakes…

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[27 Mar 2009 | No Comment | ]
Nothing will stop me

Faced with the dilemma of being housebound and missing out on a Cake Friday drastic measures and creativity were needed… so here it is… Jaffa Cake Friday thanks to two M&S Jaffas that had previously managed to hide and avoid consumption!

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[20 Mar 2009 | No Comment | ]
Sesame Street comes to Durham

This week it was Iain’s turn to bake cakes for Cake Friday in the library, and he did us proud. Cake Friday raised £50 for Sesame Workshop and Butterwick Children’s Hospice.

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[8 Mar 2009 | One Comment | ]
The one with the Cupcakes

I have, on occasion, been accused of being slightly competitive. I just think I have a natural tendency to want to achieve. Whatever the motivation I may have taken ‘Cake Friday’ a little too seriously. For those of you familiar with Friends I may have been akin to Monica. Considering I am living in a new city where my greatest hope of nurturing friendships is in work, I perhaps shouldn’t have been flaunting my crazy credentials so openly.
However as I am new to Library Land, this was my first chance …