Shiny Happy People

Children everywhere. Perhaps glitter as a decoration for the masks wasn't the best of ideas. The first four boys tipped both full tubes onto their masks rendering them empty. The table was covered in glitter. The floor was covered in glitter. One mum said: "I don't allow glitter at home. It's too messy." Hmmm. All the masks went so for the second evening in a row we made 30+.
Saturday dawns. The last weekend of the season. Two days left. Today and tomorrow.
I reckon I'll have loads of cake left over. Not such an awful problem to have.


8

Which is witch.

Another day which didn't make sense. Half term: yes. Pumpkin trail: yes. Weather: worse. Eerily quiet: NO. Had to call Freda in when it was obvious we would be much busier. We had a record panini day (21) and sold out. I can't remember what the jacket potato record is but I'm pretty sure we broke that too. We also sold out of cobweb cakes - at one stage I was icing to order. Icing cobwebs onto fairy cakes under pressure is no mean feat. For me.
Up early tomorrow to bake, ice and cut out masks. They all went too.



21

Eerily Quiet

I'll admit it. I don't understand. The forecast was good, it's half term, there's a pumpkin trail at the Court. We should have been very busy. I woke early worrying we wouldn't have enough staff. Instead we stood around for large parts of the day thumb-twiddling. On a brighter note the paninis proved popular again and the visiting kids seemed very happy with the cardboard bat masks which we'd put on a table to decorate with glitter and bits.
Witches' brew soup was made this morning. And we had a familiar sounding quiche of the day: ghosted vegetable and monsterella. My own children had fun this morning thinking up that one.


7

La Belle Day Off.

My family's annual day trip to France with friends meant I wasn't at the tea rooms yesterday when the half-term world descended. And ordered paninis. Hurray. And had to wait for them. Not such a huge hurray. The stash of cake was rapidly reduced so I'll be baking again tomorrow - cobweb cakes for the kids and lemon drizzle. I may even have to dust off my Victoria Sponge recipe at this rate.
I'm on a countdown to Sunday when we close our doors for Winter.


2.

& nonsense

Off today to buy ingredients for eyeball cakes and witches' brew soup.
I've also started to decorate the tea rooms for halloween but I fear I need more *stuff*.
The panini machine passed its electrical test yesterday so now all I need to do is work out what I'm going to put in them.

A Cut Above

That was the last of the stand-alone weekends. I don't like them very much. On Saturday morning we had to start from scratch - make chilli, cook ham, bake scones, make soup. Turned out to be a busy, pleasant day with lots of regular visitors. Yesterday was one of those gorgeous bright, sunny, dry and cold days so it was jacket-potatoes-a-go-go. Tomorrow I'm opening for an hour for the Barber Institute to have afternoon tea.
My attention must then turn to half term and my Halloween decorations. Woooooooooo (that was a ghost noise)

Tall tales

Six cups and saucers safely brought to Worcestershire from North Yorks after successful ebay purchase..
Panini machine sort of likewise. It's here but I have to get it checked out as it's been dropped.
In other news, George has now been inside the capsule which brought the miners up to the surface. He squeezed into it and claims it wasn't the size of his tummy which made him uncomfortable but rather that he was too tall for it.
Hmmm.