The Retirement Thread

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Dave7

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Location
Cheshire
Warm fruit cake:hungry: Takes me back to when my mum, who was a great baker, used to bake a cake on a sunday afternoon when the oven was still hot. The smell is wonderful.:notworthy:
Funny.....when we were kids there was always fresh baked cake, desert/puddin'.
When we were first married Mrs D carried the tradition on for some years......then it gradually ceased. Nowadays I can go months without anything sweet.
 

Drago

Legendary Member
Mini D has bounced back from her overnight bout of chunderings. I made her a cup of sweet tea and a slice of dry toast (she's weird, doesn't like butter) for breakfast and she ate it. She asked for the same for lunch and she's wolfed it down. 9 hours on from her last technicolour yawn and she's right as rain.

Conversely, I'm 2 days on and still feel a bit weak and shaky and my stomach and chest muscles feel like I've been punched.
 

Paulus

Started young, and still going.
Location
Barnet,
Funny.....when we were kids there was always fresh baked cake, desert/puddin'.
When we were first married Mrs D carried the tradition on for some years......then it gradually ceased. Nowadays I can go months without anything sweet.
Similar thing here, MrsP likes baking, but for some reason she doesn't often do it . My daughter when she lived at home was also a very good natural baker. MrsP's grandmother came from a family of professional bakers who had a bakers shop near Palmers Green, North london from before the 1st world war until the late 1960's. Fresh cooked bread, buns, and cakes are the food of gods, it is a shame the art is on the wane.
PS, the last proper bakers shop closed in Barnet earlier this year, it had been a family bakers since the 1890's.:cry:
 

welsh dragon

Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
Similar thing here, MrsP likes baking, but for some reason she doesn't often do it . My daughter when she lived at home was also a very good natural baker. MrsP's grandmother came from a family of professional bakers who had a bakers shop near Palmers Green, North london from before the 1st world war until the late 1960's. Fresh cooked bread, buns, and cakes are the food of gods, it is a shame the art is on the wane.
PS, the last proper bakers shop closed in Barnet earlier this year, it had been a family bakers since the 1890's.:cry:


There is a bakery in Mach but to be honest the prices of things as so exorbitant that I won't go in there. They are eye watering prices.

I think Mr WD is trying to eat as much of the cake as he can before one of my grandsons arrives which will be in about 30 minutes.:laugh:
 
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