It's TT - time for the carrot cake...

[curiouswombat]

We are currently in the midst of the TT motorcycle festival which, for me, means I am making what feels like industrial quantities of carrot cake - not to mention chocolate cake, chocolate brownies, flapjack, gingerbread... We sell filled baps, hot pasty, and lots and lots of home-made cakes at church to the spectators, as our church grounds are an excellent spot to watch the racing.

So this was yesterday's baking in my house -



That was the third 18 piece carrot cake I've made, and I will make at least one more. The chocolate cakes behind, together, come to the same size but somehow, on that angle, they look a lot smaller. I know now that these are 'sheet cakes' - thank you bojojoti - in this case dark chocolate with chocolate frosting and fudge chunks.

I've also done 3 trays of chocolate brownie, 2 trays of oat flapjack, and one of gingerbread the same size as the carrot cake. And D-d has also been turning out her specialities - cherry frangipan, fruit flapjack, rocky road and tiffin. I reckon, just between the two of us, our personal cake sales will raise about £170 - and our input is about 10% of the whole!

For something completely different, there are a few pictures I took a week or more ago, just of the sea, and a stairway to nowhere...

A nice sunny day with a bit of a breeze to put the white horses on the sea - a good day for dog walking. And a rather lonely staircase to nowhere...








Oh - and a picture I took for photo_scavenger of a rather nice post box which serves a hamlet of about 6 or 7 houses in the west of the island;

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[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

It hardly feel like any time to me, either!


I've just replied to Zanthinegirl - with a picture of the where the staircase used to go.

[bojojoti.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry that such a large, beautiful building was demolished. It would seem as though it could have been converted to apartments. I suppose the funds to manage that would have been dreadful. When our local junior high (which was actually two older schools) was deemed unacceptable for students, it was sold to be made into apartments for the elderly. I was grateful the buildings were spared.

http://www.treanorarchitects.com/treanor-preservation/pioneer-presidents-place/
I was so proud of our community for coming together to save the school buildings and give them a vital purpose.

Upon reflection, I realize that I could qualify to live in the old schools! And here I thought "elderly" was a longer way to go for me.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

That face of the hotel looks good in the picture - but the building was actually a bit of a hotch-potch of bits added on here and there to an original seven bedroomed house - there is a history here (http://grandislandhotel.blogspot.com/) - and it was not in good physical shape when it was finally closed.

I would like to think that any new blocks of flats will at least retain the air of the old building.

Your school conversion has worked very well - and as for the realisation that you could qualify to live there - I realised the same thing when visiting a 'sheltered housing' complex the other week - scary!