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As I seem to be documenting baking more than anything else here at the moment, this weeks efforts were an apple and blackberry pie I more or less made up and a banana loaf from Nigella’s Domestic Goddess:

We really need to get that Mars programme rolling to go and bring the poor little rover home^*. Seriously though; given it was supposed to last 90 days, it’s been one hell of a successful mission!

It’s just possible that my youth may have been overly influenced by such things as Short Circuit, Doctor Who’s K9, and friendly robots like Twiki. I think that Spirit deserves to be brought home, or at least have a museum built around it so the nasty Martian dust won’t bother its solar cells.

As I had a recent birthday the wonderful Pixie presented me with How to be a Domestic Goddess as Nigella Lawson does lots of cakey goodness :-)

Of course, I had to test some things out at the weekend. A cake (lemon and almond), lovely snickerdoodles, and, just for the hell of it, some fairy cakes!

How had I missed this so long. No Kicking Penguins. Brilliant! Mam would have wanted a t-shirt.

A post in which everything is just going to get dumped, because it won’t get anywhere otherwise (everything I think to post about doesn’t happen because I feel I really should finish this off first). Really September since the last post?!! There will by way of compensation be pictures. So without further ado…

1. Quite A Bit More Baking
2. Wandering From Corbridge To Hexham
3. Football, Live Before Your Eyes
4. Scary Night
5. Ralph, Dinner
6. Dylan Moran Is Funny
7. Mince Pies and Christmas Cake

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So after a break I was back into the kitchen last week and again this (before the traditional Sunday spot). Gooyness and cakey goodness follow.

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