Saturday 19 May 2012

Age cannot wither her…but does make her bloody tierd….


Everyone seems to be saying the same thing .......  it’s been a long week. I think it's the weather. It's exhausting.
I went to a Christening at Emmanuel College in Cambridge and the sun actually shone for my friend’s son. We went on the train. A late marriage quickly followed by a much wanted baby meant it was a very special day. There were ducks on the lawn. Our party had swelled for the return. We bought wine at the station M&S and continued the celebration with a train- party on the journey home.

I met someone some weeks ago but I don’t know if we're dating or not. It's perplexing me and so I made a triple layer, Devil’s Food cake for my boy's birthday, with white chocolate frosting, from a recipe in the Magnolia Bakery Cook Book. I didn’t know I was making a triple layer cake because I hadn’t read it properly. I had enough frosting to ice most of north London.
I had dinner with friend’s and drank too much wine because the person I don’t know if I’m dating or not had not called. So, I decided I wasn't dating him. When I got home I discovered I had a missed call from the person I don’t know if I’m dating or not, hoping we were still on for our date at the Bauhaus exhibition at the Barbican. So, I decided I was dating him. 


I went to the cinema and saw Blackthorn, the story Butch Cassidy seeing out his retirement in Bolivia, and fell in love with Sam Shepard. Again. And Bolivia. When I was in Argentina this time last year, I travelled north to Salta, near the border with Bolivia and drank mate surrounded by the hills of 7 colours and walked on the salt flats, pretending I was Etta Place. And I wished I was there again.


I went to the Bauhaus exhibition at the Barbican with the person I don’t know if I’m dating or not. It was a delight. We went for a noisy drink in The Slaughtered Lamb but we are old and it was loud. So we went for a quiet drink in St. John Bar & Restaurant. It reminds me of being in New York. And I wished I was there again.
A confusing good-bye from the person I don’t know if I’m dating or not left me confused. The drama kept me awake. So when I got home from work I picked some rhubarb from my yard and made Raspberry & Rhubarb Crumble Cakes with Marscapone. And ate them on the sofa watching Episodes and Graham Norton and I thought, if you have to wonder if you're dating someone or not then the answer is probably in the question....

Top tip: Go see: Jeff Who Lives At Home…..made me laugh, made me cry and Susan Sarandon looks brilliant…the woman’s 65!!

27 comments:

  1. If you're confused about the bloke that you're dating but not dating, think how we all feel.

    Cake looks nice

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  2. I LOVED this post - the train party, the food you have cooked - and then I clicked on "comments" and loved it even more! You are a delight to read.

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  3. Hello:
    There are so many wonderful treats in this post. Emmanuel College, a delight in itself, the Bauhaus exhibition in the Barbican is something which we should dearly love to see and a wine fuelled train party sounds like fun! And, as for the Rhubarb crumble dish and the frosty topped chocolate cake....well,after all of this we were having far too much fun to worry too much about the mysterious on/off dating man.

    We love the cinema and shall seek out your tip of a film. As for the man.....just like a bus......we are sure that another one will be along in a minute....!!!

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  4. Ha! Why don't you ask him?
    "Are we dating?"
    It could clear things up.

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  5. Bloody men, I prefer eating cake and yours look delicious!

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  6. And people say men are less complicated than women? Great cakes.

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  7. So much goodness in all of this, the rhubarb thingies - rhubarb is my favourite fruit-vege? Mum grows it like weeks and its $40 for a handful here. Hope it clears up with the confusing hopefully dating man in your life...

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  8. I like Sam Shepherd too. I hope you can work out a way to determine whether you are dating this bloke. I don't even remember what a date is !

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  9. The christening sounds so special, and I wish I'd been on the train with you all coming home! Good luck with the dating/or not situation - and keep up the wonderful cooking!

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  10. Cake or death? Cake please. Cake or dating? Cake for me too please.....

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  11. Life sounds good, the cakes look good - and as for Mr not-sure-if-you're-dating man, if he's got any sense he'll put that straight soon.

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  12. This not knowng if you are dating this guy or not seems to bring out the pastry chef in you !! I think that we can say that you are definitely dating him.
    .....and, absolutely LOVE Episodes. I watched the first series too......and.....Graham Norton is a favourite of mine. Love his chat show and we saw him in La Cage Aux Folles and he was so good.
    Here's to dating and cakes.....and lots of wine and visits to lovely Cambridge. XXXX

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  13. god that devil's food cake looks bloody delicious! mm mmm. Great post as usual.. I love Sam Shepherd too..just discovered he dated Patti Smith in her book Just Kids. Did you know? Well I never!

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  14. It might actually do me some good to ask myself if my husband and I are dating as I might take up cooking again.

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  15. Well, if you can knock up cakes like that after seeing him he's definitely worth persevering with, dating dilemma or not. x

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  16. O gawd, Susan Sarandon******* I love her and her wrinkles and her gorgeous self, at 65!!!

    And the cake drooling the frosting made my day.

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  17. If you and me ever get it together I'm going to play hard to get for a few weeks, just for the cakes.

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  18. You see if you were a Barnsley Lass you would just ask. Ask - we need to know.

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  19. Oy, the ups and downs of a new relationship. Maybe he's feeling a little afraid to declare himself? The baked treats look delicious.

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  20. I think I was confused over the status of the dating or not dating that is... I get the feeling this is a plot ploy to make us keep coming back here for updates...

    She is never 65 - not looking like that surely!

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  21. Well, now I wish I were in Argentina.

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  22. I bet if you offered him some of those delicious cakes that you've been baking he'd soon pull into line and declare his undying commitment. Hell - I'll declare my undying commitment to you if you made me cake like that!

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  23. your blog is the best! Love the embrace
    -Art a la Rue

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  24. Wondering whether you're any clearer about the dating or not dating thing yet?!

    Cakes look scrummy btw!

    Ali x

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  25. Humorous as always. If you don't know if you're dating him maybe you don't really care if you are dating him.

    Sometimes they are more of a bother than a benefit.

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  26. Carry on in this smashing fashion!



    Friendly Aloha from Waikiki
    Comfort Spiral

    > < } } (°>

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  27. Ah!...alternated laughing and crying at each use of "the person I don't know if I'm dating or not."
    Well, at least the cakes and the pastries are working out. Best of luck with the rest of it!

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