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It has been a while since I joined one of Cheryll's special evenings, 

and even this time it felt a bit rushed.

But even so, thank you, Cheryll, for getting us together and for the chilled wine; I needed it, as you will see, although something stronger was needed.

It is my husband's birthday this week, and we had a family get together on Sunday. 

So my Friday was taken up by shopping and preparing some of the food; the evening was mostly taken up by making the birthday cake, of course! It actually turned out to be a near disaster, as about half way into the baking time 

I realized I was GRILLING the cake, not baking it!!!!😓 

I obviously turned the setting one notch too far and had the grill going! 

By then the top was pretty dark and raw inside. The option was to grin and carry on, or to go out, get new lot of ingrediencies and start again. I did not fancy the second option very much, so I covered the top of the cake with a foil, turned the oven to a lower setting and carried on. It actually worked! By the time it was all finished, with lots of chocolate and cream on (after I cut off the offending top part), no one was any wiser.

So, yes, you can grill a cake 😏, but I would not recommend it! I am still recovering!

But even so, I managed to sit down for a while and finish the latest small block for Blooming Springtime (before I could smell the burning!)

This will join the other small blocks,

which now form about a third of the top.

I can see a couple of places where some corrections will need to be made, 

but in the main I am happy with it.

I will come and see what the others were up to some time this week; 

it was a busy weekend, I need to rest!

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